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What you should probably know
Nobody saw this coming ten years ago.
Microsoft purchased Activision-Blizzard, in a deal finalized last year.
Valve is now selling its own “console” hardware, complete with “exclusives” from both Xbox and PlayStation, rendering the console exclusivity argument kind of redundant.
Microsoft also now owns Bethesda, who recently launched hit TV show Fallout in partnership with Amazon.
It owns Minecraft, which remains one of, if not the biggest game in the world.
Microsoft also owns the greatest game of all time, DOOM, which can run onliterally anything.
Valve is now selling its own “console” hardware, complete with “exclusives” from both Xbox and PlayStation, rendering the console exclusivity argument kind of redundant.
Okay, you get the point.
And, well, Call of Duty and Minecraft are just Call of Duty and Minecraft.
It seems Microsoft is ahead of the curve here in some respects.
Will we eventually see PlayStation games running on Xbox console hardware via Steam some day?
Maybe not, but honestly, crazier things are happening in gaming right now.
