if Halo had become a Mac exclusive like Steve wanted it to. Xbox would have never taken off in the way it did.

The fight for Halo is the one important battle Steve Jobs lost, and it led to a decline in average game qaulity for consumers in the console market. While Sony and Nintendo offered games that were full of charm and good level design, Microsoft went all-in with dudebro games and PC ports.

Remember Diablo on PS1?

Me neither, because PC games weren't designed for consoles and they generally sucked bad on them. PC ports were the shovelware in earlier gens.

With Microsoft out of the picture we wouldn't have to pay to play online, Bethesda & Bioware etc would have continued to design games for PC with the strength of the platform in mind and the dumbing down of difficulty in games is also on MS. Games wouldn't be multiplat that often because Nintendo and Sony systems have always had drastically different hardware design, leading to more exclusives being made.

With MS out, think about what we would have got. It's all we ever wanted from Sony atleast. They would continue to make beasts like the PS3 which could rival the best PCs out there for it's time. A powerful system with games being third-party exclusives and designed for the PS3 specifically, making them better. Just like in the PS1 and PS2 days.

And PC devs like Bethesda and Bioware would be still making PC exclusives specifally designed and tailored to PC.

Nowadays PC gamers play console games with higher performance and brag about them. LEL!

Would you rather have 150 multiplats or 150 exclusive? Think about it.

tl:dr Steve Jobs could have stopped the XBOX by securing Halo as an exclusive, and gaming on all platforms would be better off altogether.