If MS only cares about being a services company, no it wouldn't matter. Hardware is just a gateway, they want people to purchase games from Xbox Live, not from Steam.
That would allow for a shorter life cycle that's for sure, didn't consider this as a possibility.
Hmmm, that's a tricky subject. I'd also want an Age of Empires and Age of Mythology game for the Xbox One.
Why do you hope that PC gamers have to wait years to play certain games? I've never understood a gamer's desire that other gamers can't play something.
Right, sorry I read your post wrong. This is also how I see it as well. That and as Brit alluded to, they could turn over the console faster and release a Xbox Two. Phones improve each year and cost nearly 1K and there are people that upgrade phones all the time, definitely much shorter cycles than a console has been. What's $350 dollars again for a beefier console every 2 years, as long as it is backwards compatible it won't really make a difference. Sell your old one, and move to the better one.
One difference is the volumes. Smartphones globally shipped over a billion units in the last year. This is split up among a lot of different brands, but the volumes allow design costs to be amortized over a much wider base than the consoles can offer.
Or you pull an eastman and put it elsewhere in the house.
I never said that! Do you think Sony is going to release Uncharted or God of war on PC? Some PS owners want Ms to release all their exclusives on PC so they don't have to buy a console they don't like in the first place. People buy consoles because of simplicity, but exclusives go along way as well. If it wasn't for the Ps3 exclusives released then Sony might not have made a comeback last gen. Universal apps doesn't mean all X1 exclusives will release day and date on Pc unless Ms are fools. I am not condemning people playing X1 exclusives. They can buy a Xbox One if they want to play them just like with the Ps3 and Ps4.
