I was saying this years ago as well but now it's impossible as they have already been purchased by another publisher.

That trailer was amazing! Can't wait to play this.

Wow I did not realize that they got bought this summer, I hope that it leads to good things for them.

yeah I hate this one-sided affair. Sure MS earns money, but we Xbox gamers get absolutely nothing in return. At least nothing visible.

This probably wasn't a move for Xbox gamers but for the studio.  Moon isn't first or even 2nd party to MS.  MS allowing the game on PC and Switch increases the return for the studio and who knows keeps relationships high and keep the studio making top notch games for MS.  Maybe with this good will, they might even decide to come over to the dark side.

We know Moon is also working on a new IP for after Ori and have been for a while now, Ori on Switch could of been a deal sweetener to keep them producing for Xbox and I'd take that :D They don't want to sell to MS and have apparently already turned down an offer and been vocal about staying as they are but I hope they can keep them producing quality games like Ori going forward.

I don't think it will come to bite them later. Now they can build hype for new studios acquisitions for their events and later when they slow down or stop buying studios they can build hype around new games coming from their newly acquired studios.

As someone who uses Xbox as the main platform, I totally dislike Microsoft's current direction. But IMO porting the 4-5 years old game to Switch is not really a big deal to be honest. Microsoft gained everything they could from this games in terms of pushing Xbox consoles, so getting some more money by selling it on Switch would only benefit them at this point. It also can give some more brand awareness among Switch users prior to next-gen launch that can be used in Microsoft's favor. 

Actually, bringing Halo MCC and Gears 5 to Steam is way way worse thing for Xbox than porting Ori to Switch considering it's the biggest flagship franchises which will now exist completely outside of Xbox ecosystem for the most part I guess. As it is quite possible that Steam sales would be over 50% of total sales. 

I believe that the reason why they do that is that they are really going all-in with xCloud. Doesn't matter what they say in interviews about how they see it just being an option and other stuff. They really are banking on streaming being the future of gaming and replacing consoles at some point. Most likely that they see next-gen as the last before streaming taking over.

In terms of Xbox hardware, I've seen an argument for quite some time that Microsoft wants to make a transition of Xbox hardware to something similar to their Surface products line - just being an option to get Microsoft services and games on this box but not making it a mandatory device to access these services and games. And that it would work well for Microsoft. But there is one big issue with this and why this won't work. Surface is just another Windows laptop like HP, Acer, ASUS etc. are making. Microsoft can afford to sell Surface and Surface doesn't have any problem as long as it uses Windows - OS with 800m+ users. No matter how bad Surface sales are, these laptops won't have issues with software support, because they have this huge userbase in order to guarantee developer support. This strategy won't work with Xbox as it is on its own. Xbox sales which Microsoft states that don't matter for them is the only thing that will determine developer's support in the future. If Scarlett sells poorly, it would be a big issue when it comes to gettting games on the platform.

MS could always just state at a later date that they are currently satisfied with the studios that they have and are no longer looking to acquire any more.

It will be interesting to see how far they actually go, like what if they are currently in negotiations with like 5 studios and they all say yes around the same time frame and come to an agreement that could put them at over 20 studios making them one of the biggest gaming companies in the world rivaling 3rd party publishers. Do they just say no to some and say sorry we are full?

I've been playing this for months on Android?