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Oh this is like 90% guaranteed to be bad. Handheld gaming on windows just looks miserable with how bloated the OS is.
Plus they will use it to promote subscriptions. Ubisoft gets hammered for:
Microsoft who is the company that actually popularised the model, gets no flack.
I literally got censored (because I wrote like a cunt) on sh.itjust.works because I told off one of the ad company representatives sniffing around lemmy. MS spends Elon kinds of money to whitewash their image on social platforms while being one of the worst thing that happened to the gaming hobby.
Ive posted about this before, but yeah the subscription multiplayer model is probably the biggest hurdle keeping xbox games from going fully cross compatible with pc, even more than the technical challenges.
Microsoft could dump funds into a compatibility layer making xbox games work via their UWP-based App store, but they cant because of what that means for their monetization of multiplayer.
People wont welcome them charging for multiplayer on games theyre playing on their PC, so MS would rather focus on a streaming only future, where subscription is mandatory to play.
They will never be good guy Microsoft unless forced. I dont think theyre desperate enough to eliminate the multiplayer subscription, and they will probably liquidate the brand before they ever give up that income stream.