With an official Xbox product with entry to third celebration shops, is the thought of the Sequence X 2 having Steam entry actually that far-fetched?

There's been speak for years about what it is perhaps like for Xbox to straight up have entry to Steam, with Xbox and PC enjoying so effectively collectively in recent times. The counterargument is often "Microsoft wouldn't willingly lose out on digital gross sales by letting prospects spend cash in a third celebration retailer". However right here we now have precisely that. Xbox needs PC customers to recollect they will have all of Xbox stuff proper there in entrance of you.

Is it actually unimaginable to assume {that a} new Xbox will probably be marketed identical to this? A PC first, bit with an Xbox UI and it boots as much as an Xbox menu and has Xbox centered buttons and so forth, however is marketed as a PC and, identical to another PC, has no restrict on apps and shops and by extension, any video games on these shops, for instance laptop variations of PC titles. Is it loopy to assume Xbox is forcing a much less unique future by first biting the bullet on gross sales, then placing out one thing that's only a PC in a console field?