I didn’t get that impression at all, to me it sounds like he doesn’t like the windows experience on handhelds and thus wants to drastically improve the experience.
They’ve been using the phrase “every screen is an Xbox” for years, as has their efforts to bring gamepass to every device they can. This isn’t new, this has been the case since before the Deck even released. Yet despite that, and despite Valve’s vocal approval, Microsoft has yet to release any form of gamepass on Linux, unless it’s cloud based ofc.
So to me, from what he said, it sounds like nothing has changed. Their goals remain the exact same that they’ve been for years, only now they want to improve the Windows experience on handhelds.
Hoping I missed something, but that really seems to be what’s happening here.
Edit: And in their “defense”, it’s not an incomprehensible decision. For pretty much the entirety of pc gaming’s existence, Microsoft has been the sole option. Sure, technically you could game on a Mac, or on Linux, but neither were viable. So 99% of pc gamers ended up on Windows. It’s only recently that Proton has had such massive improvements and made Linux more viable, and I’m sure Microsoft isn’t thrilled about that. No way they’d want to add even more to that viability.
I didn’t get that impression at all, to me it sounds like he doesn’t like the windows experience on handhelds and thus wants to drastically improve the experience.
They’ve been using the phrase “every screen is an Xbox” for years, as has their efforts to bring gamepass to every device they can. This isn’t new, this has been the case since before the Deck even released. Yet despite that, and despite Valve’s vocal approval, Microsoft has yet to release any form of gamepass on Linux, unless it’s cloud based ofc.
So to me, from what he said, it sounds like nothing has changed. Their goals remain the exact same that they’ve been for years, only now they want to improve the Windows experience on handhelds.
Hoping I missed something, but that really seems to be what’s happening here.
Edit: And in their “defense”, it’s not an incomprehensible decision. For pretty much the entirety of pc gaming’s existence, Microsoft has been the sole option. Sure, technically you could game on a Mac, or on Linux, but neither were viable. So 99% of pc gamers ended up on Windows. It’s only recently that Proton has had such massive improvements and made Linux more viable, and I’m sure Microsoft isn’t thrilled about that. No way they’d want to add even more to that viability.