Microsoft Is Planning to run XBox One games on your Windows PC

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/28/2019 09:46 AM | source: computerbase | 74 comment(s)

The latest builds of Windows insider indicate that Microsoft is working to unify the infrastructure of Windows 10 and the Xbox OS. This makes it possible to play Xbox console games on PCs with Windows 10, which has already been demonstrated with the survival action game State of Decay.

This is not a good development for PC Gaming as they could become console standardization running on the PC. By making this 'port' compatibility, basically, Microsoft seems to indicate that it would like to release console games on the PC.

Microsoft has not announced these changes just however in Windows 10 Preview Build 18334 the company implements a free version of State of Decay to download to report issues. When downloading this (trial) version, the game is no longer sourced from the Microsoft Store servers, but rather from the Xbox Live servers, which typically ship only pure Xbox titles.

The installation file obtained through this server uses the .xvc file format developed for the Xbox One but plays the normal game through PowerShell. The conclusion is obvious: The Xbox version of the Survival game is playing, not the PC version. Ergo, the games are emulated.

So in the future, chances are that if you purchase a PC Game in the Windows Store, you might end up with an emulated XBox One version.

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fantaskarsef
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#5644804 Posted on: 02/28/2019 09:48 AM

It would be nice to have Xbox exclusives on the PC. But not via windows store, then I'd still rather not touch them.

sverek
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#5644807 Posted on: 02/28/2019 10:03 AM

Nice feature! I wonder how many systems will halt cause of it and how many windows updates will it take to resolve it.

I'd say I don't really need it for my office PC, but M$ will find a way to push it in!

edit: can we have Windows 10 gaming edition or something.

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#5644810 Posted on: 02/28/2019 10:11 AM

This makes absolutely no sense... At the moment you can stream any xbox one game to your pc anyway. But if you are going to run native xbox games on your pc through an emulator then it means you will need a more powerful pc to run the game and also you will need a controller attached to your pc. That will take away the whole purpose of a console (cheap and user friendly)... I don’t see the point where Microsoft is goint with this...

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#5644811 Posted on: 02/28/2019 10:20 AM

While I wouldn't mind having access to some Xbone games, if they use the W10 store and it's horrible emulation, then I'll pass.

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#5644812 Posted on: 02/28/2019 10:24 AM

Wasn't this supposed to be a thing a long long time ago too?

Got vague memories of them mentioning this before but nothing ever happened

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