"Play anywhere is obviously great but if the xbox handheld has steam"
I'm not sure to follow? Play Anywhere main advantage is about other platform, not handled PC (and not even talking about a future Xbox handled here, but actually consoles)... Steam version runs only on PC... (or SteamOS), not Xbox.

You cannot really argue that Play Anywhere versions are just better than flat PC title that can ONLY run on the platform you bought it for...
And there is no way your Steam game can run on Xbox Series for instance, so no your Steam title cannot become a Play Anywhere version... That's the whole point and advantage of Xbox Play Anywhere

For the deals, I do not know which one are the better deals (and you are probably right about Steam as it is way bigger marketplace anyway, so usually more deals) but at the end; Play Anywhere has nothing to do with that. 

Like I said: If you do not care about being able to play your games on Console and if the game is not on GamePass; then Steam is probably the best way to go. But you cannot really argue that if you want to also play on a console or if the game is on GamePass (and you have GamePass)... Then why pick the game on Steam? 

Game is really amazing :) I love it, I was waiting for a new AC that would be close to Odyssey and we finally got it :)

Sucks to be one of those Ubisoft haters who are influenced by the Internet and will not play the game because their YouTuber is telling them IMO :) They are missing a amazing game!

Here are some of the launch stats I was able to find for AC games:

• AC1- 1.1m in 7 days
• AC2- 1.6m in 7 days
• AC Brotherhood- 1m sales in less than 1 week
• AC Revelations- No exact number revealed at launch, Ubisoft initially said they were expecting a double digit decline compared to Brotherhood based on preorders, but then later stated first month sales were up 10% over Brotherhood. Ubisoft later stated that AC3 doubled AC Revelations launch while estimating AC3 sales at 3.5m, so half that would mean 1.7m for Revelations
• AC3- 3.5m in the first week
• AC4- First week sales down 60% from AC3, so 1.4m
• AC Unity and Rogue- No launch week sales provided by Ubisoft, all we know is they sold a combined 10m during their launch Holiday, so about first 7 weeks of sales
• AC Syndicate- No launch week sales provided by Ubisoft, all we know is that first week in the UK was the 2nd lowest in the series up to that point above only AC Rogue, and that it sold 4.1m copies in 3 months
• AC Origins- First 10 days sales were double Syndicate, but no exact amount released
• AC Odyssey- No exact launch sales were provided, though Ubisoft stated that it's launch had outperformed all other 8th gen AC games released before it (so Origins, Syndicate, and Unity)
• AC Valhalla- Stated by Ubisoft to have the highest launch sales in the whole franchise, though no exact numbers were given, though the fact they stated launch sales and not launch players suggests it exceeded the 3.5m launch week of AC3. 1.8m unique players were stated to have won a drinking game in the first week after launch in an infographic Ubisoft released (not all that buy a game start it immediately after buying it, especially in the Holiday season when copies are bought for gifts to go under a Christmas tree, so sales would have been well above the in-game 1.8m players who won a drinking game)
• AC Mirage- No exact sales or player figures ever given by Ubisoft to my knowledge, though Ubisoft claimed player counts at launch were in line with Origins and Odyssey, though below Valhalla. Reliable industry insider Tom Henderson estimated 5m players in the first 3 months.
• AC Shadows- 1.8m players in less than 3 days

Edit: Disregard what I said about Ubisoft's AC Valhalla and AC3 statements contradicting one another, the wikipedia page for AC Valhalla had a bad source claiming 1.8m players, which was not an official Ubisoft statement but a poorly extrapolated and inaccurate total player count claim from an infographic Ubisoft released. Removed the language about contradictory statements. 

Yeah AC Shadwoes flopped. Steam has 900 million! Users yet AC Shadwoes only has 60k players. I guess that’s what happens when you double DRM a single player game. RIP. Also Asswithmold made a video exposing it as a flop too.

I know you're joking, but just in case anyone thinks you're being serious, the series has never been a strong performer on Steam, the AC series is extremely console loaded, more so than just about an other series I know of. My understanding is PC gamers were turned off by Ubisoft forcing Uplay DRM into their Steam releases in the past, and their PC ports were often poorly optimized in the past, and some of their games got late Steam releases, and though that DRM has been dropped now as far as I know and their PC ports are better optimized and Shadows is day one on Steam, the series performance on Steam still hasn't recovered from all of the repeated PC blunders by Ubisoft on past PC releases, so now probably 80+% of AC sales are on consoles. The peak concurrent player count record for the series on Steam is Odyssey with 62k peak concurrent, so Shadows with 60k is the #2 strongest launch performer in the series on Steam. 

Were you drunk when you posted this?

Could be the Oblivion remake reveal since leakers suggested it would be revealed in late March and released in April. 

How are you getting Oblivion remaster from that?

That looks 100% like Indiana Jones to me, could be the first expansion?

Also...Is that Troy Baker? Lol.

To be honest, didn't really look at the picture, saw the text while scrolling and came here to post it because I remembered leakers claiming Oblivion would be a March reveal. Alot of the comments are saying Oblivion too, so I guess alot of other saw the leaks claiming a reveal in March. But yeah, the set in the photo does indeed look like Indiana Jones era furnishing, and that is indeed Troy Baker. Must be the first Indiana Jones DLC. 

That's kind of funny, Indiana Jones is already voiced by Troy Baker, now they've put his real life image in-game too, Lol.

Probably PS5 announcement alongside the 1st expansion and Troy Baker is a character in it.