Xbox - Project Scorpio

[Arkaign]

Goatseye said:

Arkaign said:
I have a 4.7Ghz i7-4790k with 970 OC edition and a 1070 is on the way, so Scorpio has zero relevance to me in direct terms, but their newfound super-solid support moving forward for PC gaming has me liking their direction. Although I vastly prefer PC gaming, I'm glad there will be a console like Scorpio available (and Neo, if it shapes up as it should).

Microsoft FINALLY figured out that PC gaming isn't a threat to their console offerings. Broadening their base brings people like me into the fold (Xbox on PC), whereas I'd absolutely never buy an X1 or Scorpio.

They were never scared of merging Xbox with PC. Gamers' obsession with list wars were their main obstacle.

I dunno about that, remember Halo was announced for Mac and Windows in 1999, but Microsoft bought it and shitcanned those versions, keeping it solely for their Xbox console. From that point on, they shrunk/eliminated their PC Gaming studios and refrained from releasing much on PC. Halo and Halo 2 came, but they both came incredibly late compared to the console releases, and in H2's case, was hobbled by a horrendous scheme with GFWL and even attempts to get PC gamers to pay for online, which failed utterly. Then of course Halo 3, 4, etc they didn't release on PC at all, despite there being more than enough players on PC to justify a port. 

So many of those decisions came well before Xbox had a huge following (or in Halo CE's case, ANY following at all). You may be right that some wrong-headed gamers also joined in with a list-wars mentality and didn't want their 'exclusives' to be available on anything but Xbox consoles, but Microsoft's business plans certainly seemed to attempt to ignore the PC in terms of their flagship IPs as much as possible.

It's a remarkable turnaround, and I can safely say that while the Ballmer/Mattrick Microsoft was easy for me to hate, I deeply respect what Nadella and Spencer have done in the past ~24 months or so.