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Having the Xbox be a seperate platform from Windows PCs always felt pretty useless. I guess it made some licensing fees or whatever but come on.
Well when the first XBox came out consoles had a legitimate argument against PCs in terms of ease of use and reliability, but with PCs getting easier to use thanks to Steam and various game engine standardizations and with consoles getting less reliable thanks to developers regularly shoving their releases out the door with massive breaking bugs that argument no longer holds water.
Microsoft could always have made the Xbox windows PC compatible with an alternative shell.
This was a pretty obvious idea even before Valve made the first steam machine.
I'm thinking they should make the XBox a line of hardware that refreshes every couple of years instead of sticking to console generations, make it run on a stripped down windows distro, combine "games for Windows Live" and the "XBox game pass" and implement it as a custom hypervisor so that everyone with a Windows PC also has an XBox. I dunno if Microsoft as an organization is capable of thinking like that, however.
Microsoft: let's streamline windows by adding copilot to even more things
Copilot for copilot 365 live
Needs more copilot
Yeah Microsoft is incapable of not rebranding Games for Windows Live every 5 years.