Launching last quarter of 2019, or presenting in e3 2019 and launching 2020. If they want to compete with Steam they need to stablish:
1) New Franchises: the library of steam is unreacheable for microsoft at least short term. They need atractive exclusives, and Halo & Gears is not enough, they need more, and they only can count on Xbox brand to do that.
2) The cross buy and cross play as a trend feature, and they only count with Xbox to do that.
3) Xbox Live Gold as a suscription service popular on PC, they need mantain the popularity of the service on consoles to gain the PC market.
By the way they are not going to give up with a platform that is profitable in many ways, no matter what Sony is selling. Xbox is essential to Microsoft as a Company.
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