Don't worry Win is still the "go to" platform and there is Xbone. The pubs will still code for DirectX. But now M$ has pressure to make DirectX better!

HAHA this hit M$ where it hurts! Not in the console department but in it's meat and potatoes OS department.

Steam is making an OS that will cause your low end PC to preform cost wise to a console. The X in Xbox stands for DirectX which M$ has been holding over devs/pubs/consumers heads. The newer DirectX full functionatliy is only on Win8 to make you buy/upgarde to it.

Now Steam is pushing away from DirectX as well as Sony, Nvidia, and AMD! Steam is giving us a free alternative OS that is unlocked and could let your PC preform MANY MANY more times than on DirectX! And letting console gamers get in on it.

HAHA a "console-like" that console gamers get and find out they can put emulators on... they are gonna freak! Just like Homebrew on the PSP.

@quiksilvers123 M$ should be worried as the X in X box stands for DirectX which STeam & Sony are going to make Publishers go away from.

Maybe forcing M$ to improve DirectX for PCs and making a better OS in general. Awww competition is great for the consumer!

@cratecruncher Read up on AMD's new Mantle API!

@Chrypt22 Even AMD is moving away from DirectX and making their own: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mantle-api-gcn-battlefield-4,24418.html

"According to AMD, the Mantle benefits include reducing the CPU overhead to enable 9X more draw calls per second than other APIs. This will provide PC gamers proper multi-tasking scaling on the CPU without the need to handle all the background draw calls required by the older APIs"

It's not just Steam. And Steam is now partenring up with Nvidia in use with the Steam OS...

@cratecruncher http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/140222-directx-11-1-will-be-exclusive-to-windows-8-is-microsoft-forcing-gamers-to-upgrade

They keep DirectX PC underdeveloped ie: Why do games run as well as they do on 8 year old consoles but on lower-end PC not so well when the lower-end PC is much much stronger?

@Mr_BillGates Um no the Steam OS is open and not using DirectX which M$ is not updating on purpose. An open unlocked OS WILL give better API to use made by Nvidia or AMD or Steam or even the Publisher. Say hello to games that run unlocked on your hardware to its fullest.

SCREW M$ and you gotta buy/upgrade Win 8 for the new DirectX dll.s OPen OS new API here we come!

@rarson Yeah the whole reason for the Metro UI is to sell you apps. Forcing us to boot to it and navigate with it. Stripping out the functional Start button that was efficient and compact, to try and sell me things....no thanks.

@tonypreston No using a different OS hurts M$ as gaming has for the most part been defaulted to the Windows OS.

M$ makes the most of their money from the OS market. More and more they are pursuing anti-consumer practices for the lack of competition.