CaffeinatedSquirrel

Steam has this so I'm sure its also the same thing on Steam Deck... maybe not accessible from the Deck view but from the Desktop view it will be for sure.
 

There was an article about it circling around on the Internet a few years ago about it. Microsoft was testing cross-platform play for the Xbox. They took professional console games (from tournaments like MLG) and random PC gamers (just your average Joe), and the PC gamers were humiliating the console gamers.
 
There is just no way that someone with a controller can keep up with a mouse/keyboard player in an FPS game. A controller is simply terrible for aiming with. That's why games like Halo not only has a very high degree of auto aim (basically aimbot) but also something they call "bullet magnetism".
 
 
 
 
Very interesting statement from Microsoft. It seems like they really have changed mentality since Ballmer left. I am not a fan of Steam (other than their low prices) but a lot of what he said seems to apply to other stores as well, and it shows a very positive change in the way Microsoft handles things.

He did refer to Balmer's era crap though, maybe with Nadella he wants to revisit? Who knows

I don't get why people are afraid. And I don't get the separation between PC gamers and console.
If you think keyb/mouse is better, so be it, you'll trash them.
Also, you need to consider that the game needs to be on BOTH systems in the first place.

i think certain game types would be okay cross platform. like racing games. maybe some platformers. but games like FPS, no definately keep them off cross platform multiplayer. the poor console peasants would constantly call hacks on us

Cross platform gaming does seem interesting. Even for non-competitive gaming, it opens up a load of new areas. 
 
Also, every damn time I hear Phil Spencer:
 

At least that DVD drive can be replaced with a SSD with an adapter.  

The best thing has to be the signatures on it!! And well, what's not to love about it? It's an awesome gaming laptop. I've never been able to play any games on a laptop before.

Nothing at all I decided how I wanted my rig to be, got paid, bought all the parts, assembled...

The fact that it is in an online shopping cart but I don't have the money to buy it because I am a poor student. My i3 netbook with HD 4000 will have to do for now I guess...