Zkuq said:
Gabe is in a different position though. Steam has been doing very well even without Call of Duty, so clearly there's not that much threat against Steam even if Call of Duty strayed away from Steam again. Additionally, Microsoft has demonstrated its willingness to put its games on Steam for years now, probably because that's where the money's at on PC. That is, Gabe has good reason to believe that Microsoft is actually interested in releasing its games on Steam, and even if they weren't, Steam would still do just fine. He can definitely afford to be trusting. In the console market however, the belief seems to be that exclusives matter a lot, and I'm sure both Microsoft and Sony are looking further than just the next ten years. |
I pretty much agree to all this.
I would like nothing more than if they were no exclusive at all and console from manufacturer only represented what they view as the best way to play their titles.
There's precedent to that in the movie industry. Were movie company only released movie in their own theater before being force by the governement to divest their theater so every movie could be seen in any theater. Would like noting more than this hapening in the gaming industry as well.
