Why would they do that? They make more profit selling a Windows license for your PC than they ever would selling consoles.
They’re never going to get a cut of the profits from 3rd party games on Windows the way they would with a console. The second they try to force every Windows game to pay is the second they all switch over to SteamOS.
See, the issue is that those developers are already paying Valve to be on Steam for Windows. Paying to be on Windows as well would be double taxation, and there’s no advantage to that after Valve gave everyone an outlet (Proton) to move everyone’s libraries to Linux and SteamOS.
So if Microsoft couldn’t charge anyone license fees to sell games for a Windows-based console, why spend all the money to develop one?
They could have built steam. People would have used it for the same reason people use steam in this timeline. They should have done that like 20 years ago. It’s too late now.
Why would they do that? They make more profit selling a Windows license for your PC than they ever would selling consoles.
They’re never going to get a cut of the profits from 3rd party games on Windows the way they would with a console. The second they try to force every Windows game to pay is the second they all switch over to SteamOS.
See, the issue is that those developers are already paying Valve to be on Steam for Windows. Paying to be on Windows as well would be double taxation, and there’s no advantage to that after Valve gave everyone an outlet (Proton) to move everyone’s libraries to Linux and SteamOS.
So if Microsoft couldn’t charge anyone license fees to sell games for a Windows-based console, why spend all the money to develop one?
They could have built steam. People would have used it for the same reason people use steam in this timeline. They should have done that like 20 years ago. It’s too late now.