^ Yet who wants to play Tombraider or Quantum break on a tablet or phone? There's more to making games fit to a platform besides remapping the controls. There's already plenty friction between console controller and pc keyboard mouse specialized support.

All this device family talk gives me the shivers to be honest. I'm looking for special tailor made 7.1 big screen experiences. Not stuff that can work on phones too. What's next, bolt VR onto regular games.

Actually, both of those games would work just fine on a phone, or (preferably) a tablet if you have a proper gamepad hooked up to it. There are also plenty of indie games that could benefit from this.

Of course not, at least not with the lukewarm response that gamers are giving to the W10 stores offerings, the lack of ability to customize how you want a game to work or add mods to the titles from there just leave it as a very bad choice for consumers alongside the same titles on Steam.

Nah, I switched for other reasons. Mainly because Windows got on my nerves on a daily basis with bullshit happening left and right. I don't have those problems with my MacBook. At least not until now. I do like Linux a whole lot, but I need Papyrus Autor for my work and that software is only available on Windows and Mac. I could try to get it to work with Wine or something, but well, I'm pretty happy with OSX, so I don't bother. But the system being closed or open is not that much of a problem to me, as long as everything is running fine and I can get my work done in time - which wasn't always the case on Windows.

This attack seems vague to me. I mean I doubt MS will close out STEAM, as they will loose the majority of PC gamers in matter of months and would give competitors a real shot for taking away serious market %. What MS is doing is what everyone else is at the moment: Apple, Sony, hell even Nintendo. They want to make things easier to jump over to them, and make the Windows marketplace a viable distribution platform, instead of the ghost town it is at the moment.

Bit of an overblown reaction if you ask me... it is natural that a company wants games (and software in general) made for their OS better, than how they would work on the competitors.