Has Microsoft made a Mistake By not making XboxOS instead of a Game console?

[Landguy]

joeorc said:

Landguy said:

Your argument fails in that Windows 7 was already considered to be a great gaming OS.  

Now, Win10 is planning to be multitudes better than Win7 for gaming.  THe projected cost of Win10 is very low, as M$ is doing exactly what you are asking them to do.  Create a cheaper OS that has lower level access to the hardware.  It will also have compatibility with basically all devices(tablets/smartphones/gaming systems/PCs/laptops/kitchen sink/Car/refrigerator/TV sets/smart watches/you get the point).

I will agree that windows 7 does gaming Good, I am pointing out that , what MS is doing now is not the problem, as a matter of fact I think what they are doing is in fact a good thing, I am not saying otherwise, i am simply pointing out , that the Time of splitting resources from PC and Xbox , Microsoft could have made the move years ago to what Microsoft is doing Now. Making the Xbox as a one single machine platform, I think was in fact the wrong choice. 

My Opinion What Microsoft would have been better off is making Windows Game OS called XboxOS loadable on any hardware with direct to metal Api as Microsoft's evolution since the creation of Xbox.

 

Why I said it was a mistake was the move , that Microsoft did, which is to late to change what has happened already, but the Adoption of other OS's for gaming has increased more than I think would have been is if Microsoft would not have really ignored making windows OS , over making a Windows Game OS over made to be not just a single hardware platform, but agnostic. We know with Microsoft's recent moves that they could have done this right from the start.

Not saying the Xbox is a bad platform, not at all, I am pointing out other OS's have grown more viable for 3rd part development choice for another OS besides windows Only as the only platform for gaming for not just PC now but in other markets.

I think M$ as a company could not have pulled off what you were looking for them to do 12 years ago.  It's only in the last 3 years that M$ has adopted a climate of "One Company".  Should they have done something like what you are disucssing back then?  Sure!  But, with knowing everything we know today in our pocket, it's easy to say that.  If you could have known (for sure) that smarphones and tablets would really take over the casual market as fast as it did, you would have made the plan that you discussed.  Android/ios didn't do anything special to nurture that market besides being there.  M$ had mobile OS's, but they were crappy and they were expensive.  Who would have really known that broadband to the home and highspeed internet to phones would really develop so fast.