The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has said that he wants the company to "revisit" some of the "conventional wisdom" around the divide between PC and console. 

Speaking on a TBPN livestream – as transcribed by VGC – the executive talked up the company's games business, both on PC and console, while also hinting as to what the future of Xbox hardware might be. The rumours right now suggest that the next console would also be a games PC that could use other launchers, such as Steam and Epic Games. 

"Remember, the biggest gaming business is the Windows business,” Nadella said.

“To us, gaming on Windows, and of course, Steam has built a massive marketplace on top of it and done a very successful job. So to us, the way we are thinking about gaming is, first of all, we’re now the largest publisher [after acquiring Activision].

“So therefore, we want to be a fantastic publisher, similar in approach to what we did with Office. We’re going to be everywhere, on every platform. So we want to make sure, whether it’s consoles, whether it’s PC, whether it’s mobile, whether it’s cloud gaming, or the TV. We just want to make sure the game is enjoyed by gamers everywhere.”

He continued: "We want to do innovative work on the system side on the console and on the PC. And it’s kind of funny that people think about the console and PC as two different things. We built the console because we wanted to build a better PC, which could then perform for gaming. And so I kind of want to revisit some of that conventional wisdom.

“But at the end of the day, console has an experience that is unparalleled. It delivers unparalleled performance, that pushes, I think, the system forward. So I’m really looking forward to the next console, the next PC gaming.”