Phil Spencer reiterates: No exclusives for Scorpio

[Chazore]

Intrinsic said:

Chazore said:

So you see PC as the natural enemy or soemthing?.

They don't own all of PC inside and out either. Without the PC, we wouldn't even have our video games to begin with, so I find it rather natural that what gives life, can also take it away.

Nope.... I see windows as the neutral enemy. Now if gaming as far as PC goes was a Linux dominated affair then I wouldn't worry. But as itstands, knowing that PC gaming as it stands is tied to windows is very disturbing to me. This si why I was happy when steam was trying to push their steam box initiative. 

I think all of gaming being tied to a platform owned by microsoft is just a really scary proposition. And I don't know how anyone can trust MS. Coming off the biggest console success sony had, their true colors came through and then went and made and over engineered and expensive machine. Pushed Blu-ray and what not. That sony, thats the kinda bad we can expect from their arrogance. But Microsoft? Their own arrogance and true colors showed in the form of an always online, no used games, drm heavy, mandatory kinect push. And we know how they are when it comes to their partnerships for games. I am sorry, but thats not a comapny I can trust.

Thing is, Steam pushed those boxes and no one wanted them, same with the OS (though they still need to work on it more, but still). MS for years has offered an OS every few years that ends up being adopted by the majority of PC users out there, mostly because it's more convienint and universal to use than the various distros of Linux or the differences with Mac OS, you cannot really pin that all on MS as a bad thing, not when the other two aren't trying nearly as hard to make their OS's appealing to both the major populace and gamers alike.

Imagine if all gaming was tied to one of the other big 3, it'd be the same dance and story, like it or not, when you give one of those 3 absolute power, it would only corrupt them and allow them to further clamp down on their hold all the more. 

I find it somewhat odd though that you wouldn't mind if everything ended up on PC, just not on another OS besides the other one you chose.