Alternate history: Microsoft never joins the console race

[Chazore]

HoloDust said:

KrspaceT said:

...Just Sony and Nintendo huh....

Honestly wonder what STEAM's absence does to the debate on pricing in games. 

I was more thinking in the line of MS focusing on PC, where there home is, instead of consoles and making something akin to STEAM before Valve did it.

It could have also allowed for MS to fully realise their GFWL ideal on the PC platform, because without Valve around, there would have been nowhere else to go (GoG may not have even existed without Steam as well, and even if it did, MS would have likely bought them out by then or squashed them).