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Ryuu96 on 09 January 2024
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Mnementh said:
Ryuu96 said:

Not really sure what you want me to say, I'm trying to enjoy my games, Lol.

Angelus said:

Is it weird that I just do not care about this stuff? Like, as long as I keep getting great GamePass content, MS can put games wherever for all I care

The Activision acquisition let me suspect they also want to offer something on mobile. Not sure if they do an complete store with their non-gaming apps as well, or more a game-oriented app with achievements and all. Maybe both in parallel. But something will come.

So I don't think they will stop the Xbox console, why would they. If I assume their strategy correctly, they are trying to create the best ecosystem by being available on every device. So the console is part of it and they will not give up on it unless other console makers allow Gamepass on their systems. Steam by the way sees this similar, this is how I see Steamdeck, they are broadening the reach of their ecosystem.

Also, maybe we will see multi-device gaming experiences again. Nintendo tried something in the past, with linking Gamecube and Gameboy Advance. But think you have a full immersive experience on console or PC, but if you are commuting and play on your phone, this game adds the successes into the PC/console game as say the results of a field agent. Would be interesting to still progressing your main game, while on the phone.

Good post overall, I just wanted to respond to a few points.

They're making a Universal Xbox Store for Mobile which will spread across Console, PC and Mobile. Since it's "Xbox" I assume it will be largely gaming focused but the Xbox store has things like Netflix and other Apps on it as well which I assume will also be available on this Mobile Store as well.

Exactly, Console is one part of the overall ecosystem and one part of the ecosystem removed will hurt the overall ecosystem. I think Steam is actually a good comparison, Steamdeck won't need to sell tens of millions to be continued to be made, they're expanding their reach and giving another avenue to their ecosystem.

They could overtime streamline things between Windows Store and Xbox Console Store making them essentially the same thing, or have one universal easily supported store with a very fair cut to developers and then a future Xbox could essentially be a Xbox branded PC but locked down to their Windows Store only, I don't know but I think there's ways to make supporting their Console more enticing than just "We sold 50m+ units!"