One thing I'm seeing here is that Bethesda is trying to migrate everything including Save Files where they can. (Which great for them, that sounds like the righ

One thing I'm seeing here is that Bethesda is trying to migrate everything including Save Files where they can. (Which great for them, that sounds like the right thing to do.) A migration to Steam may be technically easier for some of those things. Save files can be weird in Xbox games/Microsoft Store games. In particular, I think the Xbox Store has a much smaller portion of the "Creation Club" mods than Steam, and that may have been a strong motivator. More cynically, this seems a "games generation" where Microsoft is trying to "win PC gamers back" by being very Steam friendly/Steam forward in their PC releases and strategy. There's a lot better PR for Microsoft here if Bethesda migrates everything to Steam, and it may just be for those PR reasons.