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Following the Switch 2 Reveal, Phil Spencer Says Microsoft Is 'Really Looking Forward' to Supporting Nintendo With Xbox Games (www.ign.com)
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[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Microsoft inventions that made the gaming space a better competitive environment:

Always online single player: GFWL

Pay to play online: Ace

Pay to play console online up till last year: MW

Pay to play F2P console online: for over a decade

And that's just from the top of my head. The closest thing in the known universe to the behaviour of Microsoft is a tumour. It sends metastases to other organisations and then it assimilates and deletes any identity the original organisation had.

Microsoft needs to be broken from Xbox, it already has a monopoly on the gaming sphere by controlling the OS of the majority, now it wants to metastasise to other platforms to begin assimilation. The future of core gaming is bleak.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Legitimately though, along with Games For Windows Live was the Games For Windows initiative, which did standardize controller support on PC. It standardized it in a way that benefited themselves, but it was an important step toward arriving where we are today, where there's no longer some weird distinction between "PC games" and "console games".

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