The very same moment they treated the PC as a competitor for their Xbox360 and stopped releasing its games on it, it became clear that no, PC gaming is not part of MS ecosystem.
No Halos past nº2 (not even Halo Wars!), no Gears of War after the first game, no Forza, etc. And they have even shoot down their PC gaming studios like Ensemble and the ones behind Flight Simulator.
Of course we still use Windows to play, but so what? We also drive our cars through roads, yet we don't consider roads nor the industry that makes them part of the automotive industry, right?
Please excuse my bad English.
Former gaming PC: i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070
Current gaming PC: R5-7600, 32GB RAM 6000MT/s (CL30) and a RX 9060XT 16GB
Steam / Live / NNID : jonxiquet Add me if you want, but I'm a single player gamer.
