| Cerebralbore101 said: Microsoft doesn't care about console sales. They care about how many people are using Windows or Xbox Live. They've given up on dominating the console market. The Xbox brand of console serves only as a way to get people to buy their services. This is why MS moved all their exclusives to PC. They want to rent you games and services, not sell you games and consoles. This is why they tried to do away with being able to trade/sell games. The whole "always online" fiasco was a scheme to force people to pay for Xbox Live. Scorpio isn't a desperate attempt to recapture the console market via more powerful hardware. It's just a sub premium option for their users. Ultimately they want you gaming on a Windows PC, but if they can't have that they'll settle for you gaming on an Xbox. |
They care about making you pay for Live, so they want you to leave the closed console market where every fanbase now pays for online and move to PC where they have to combat Steam and online play is free? Doesn't make much sense.
I think they realize there is not much overlap between the console and PC market at all and that they can put their games on both of their platforms and it won't make a lick of difference to the general consumer. They see how much games as a service prints money on consoles and want to try and get into that on PC, so why not put all their games on the store in Windows. The big departure for MS this gen hasn't been putting their games on PC, it's been them shifting almost all of their games to the games as a service model.
But they definitely want you gaming on a console over PC. There is much much more money to be made on consoles. Yeah, they lose money on hardware for awhile, but on the flip side how popular is their PC store? Console wins.
