With Microsoft losing the console war vs Sony, they took to another platform that has been keeping pace with the consoles in sales and has beat the consoles in power and that is... PC gaming.

During this year's GDC, Xbox boss Phil Spencer claimed that Microsoft will start focusing on PC gaming. As Phil Spencer said, PC gamers can expect more focus from Microsoft in the PC gaming space. And while the company has made such statements in the past, we have to admit that DX12 is a game changer.

Phil Spencer praised Valve and Steam, and described Steam as the backbone of PC gaming for the past ten years. Spencer admitted that Steam has "focused on PC gaming more, in a lot of ways, than Microsoft has," that "it's important to invest in [PC gaming] in a real way," and that PC gamers can expect to see "tier-1 initiatives for PC gaming from Microsoft beginning this summer."

DSOGaming writer John Papadopoulos noted:

"Now I can't recall how many times we've heard this thing from Microsoft, though we have to admit that DX12 is BIG for PC gaming. Yes, it took MS a while - and we are certain that Mantle was something that pushed MS towards that low-level access direction - but that's irrelevant. DX12 will be a game changer, will be supported by a big range of GPUs, and will reduce CPU overhead."

With Microsoft focusing on PC gaming, would they drop Xbox Support? Not likely, in the manner that they would stop supporting it completely but "dropping" in the manner that lessens people working on it and move them to PC based teams then it is a possibility.