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Sony may block PlayStation Steam games on new Xbox console, dashing hopes for a cross-platform system (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] pory@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Problem with that is, if the xbox is a PC with sideloading capabilities (instead of being a much harder thing to engineer: a true "console experience" that just adds Steam), then all Sony's current games can be pirated on the thing. Future titles would have whatever lock and also probably Denuvo, for sure, or Sony could just stop putting their games on PC. Sony probably wasn't seeing a future where anyone but "sweaty PC nerds" would be playing Steam games in their living room with controllers, and Microsoft has the perfect opportunity to say "alright, whatever. We lost the exclusives arms race to Nintendo and Sony so let's just do what we do best and maintain the biggest gaming platform in the history of the medium but make it as easy for Joe Rando to use as an Xbox 360 was".

Microsoft has such an opportunity to learn the right lessons from the Steam Deck - make good convenient hardware with a lot of compatibility, slap a user-friendly interface on it, and do nothing to stop tinkering and customizing other than making it easy to restore back to stock.