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Azzanation on 28 April 2018
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Pemalite said:
Azzanation said:

Steam isnt exactly there opposition since majority of Steam users are on a Windows based platform, and better well should be because majority of Steam games only run on Windows.

Steam is most certainly in competition with Microsoft. A game sold on Steam is coin that Microsoft misses out on, why do you think Games for Windows Live! and then Windows Store came about in the first place? Because Microsoft needed to compete with things like Steam, Google Play Store and so on.

Of course they are competing, however Steam isn't a horrible factor for MS. MS also make money off Steam and Steam also promotes Windows devices. MS are a major corporation that want a piece of the Pie that Steam is profiting on that's just about it. However MS aren't against Steam as much as others want to believe, Apple and other OS's like Linux are the threats to MS. If MS saw Steam as a threat to there business model they wouldn't be releasing some of there games on it. I mean what do we take them for? honestly do people believe MS are that stupid to be giving away there software to there opposition because of gamers who hate there products? They do it to cherry pick sales for games that basically have died or need to generate more money and it also supports one of Windows biggest advantages over there main competition. You don't see MS games on Apple or PlayStation aside from Minecraft. 

The reason Valve created the Steam Machine was due to panic of MS invading the PC digital side of games. Steam's counter against that was to compete with MS's Xbox however unfortunately for Valve it didn't turn out that well.

Valve also don't like to use DX and they tend to be pushing OpenGL which is why Windows 10 Store exists, so it creates competition for MS's own API. For some reason MS want to heavily support DX, I don't know why but they hold that API close to there heart. Win10 is to support DX for PC and Xbox is to support DX for consoles.

In saying all that, I see Xbox reducing there support for Steam but not entirely. They will compete with Steam but they wont destroy Steam. If anything I see low selling MS titles still arriving on Steam while there big hitters remain a selling point for Win10 and Xbox.

Only the future will tell.