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

There's been discuss for years about what it may be like for Xbox to straight up have entry to Steam, with Xbox and PC taking part in so nicely collectively in recent times. The counterargument is often "Microsoft wouldn't willingly lose out on digital gross sales by letting clients spend cash in a third social gathering retailer". However right here we now have precisely that. Xbox desires PC customers to recollect they will have all of Xbox stuff proper there in entrance of you.

Is it actually not possible to assume {that a} new Xbox will likely 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 every other PC, has no restrict on apps and shops and by extension, any video games on these shops, for instance computer 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?