disolitude said:
Knowing Microsoft, I don't know if they will ever allow that. Streaming? Absolutely...but not natively. Just like Google doesn't allow apps to be bought outside Google play (legally) and Apple doesn't allow apps to be bought outside Apple store, MS can't allow a competing ecosystem to sell games on Xbox natively. With that said, I can see Xbox becoming a game platform over time that lives everywhere and in other app stores. Android, iOS, Windows Phone game streaiming? Why not? With Balmer gone, looks like Microsoft is back in the business of selling software and cloud services. |
I see. Maybe in a future platform. I can see the next generation or two being almost a spectrum of open-platforms to closed-platforms, with Sony and MS transitioning to mostly having software-based platforms and creating their own unique hardware for exclusives while allowing other PC releases to run on their platform, and Nintendo being strictly closed platform. Kind of like if they all created steam boxes and limited the hardware on which their exclusive games can run. It definitely seems to me as if console gaming and PC gaming is merging as it becomes cheaper for small PC form factors and PC gaming becomes more convenient and popular. If Microsoft allowed steam to run on their platform, even in a limited form, that would be a huge step toward this. But like you said, that would give their market to their competitor (Valve.)
