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

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/28/2019 08:46 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 08:48 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.

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#5644807 Posted on: 02/28/2019 09:03 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 09:11 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 09:20 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 09:24 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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#5644819 Posted on: 02/28/2019 10:04 AM

Still, have my hopes to play new Halo games on PC one day.

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#5644820 Posted on: 02/28/2019 10:15 AM

As long as it is outside of "Store"...
It is one of things I get rid of. And then there is pricing. Those things may be new to PC, but they are already old. Therefore I would be willing to buy games like Gears of War, but not at some crazy price.

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#5644821 Posted on: 02/28/2019 10:17 AM

Clever move by Microsoft. Why get developers to make PC games anymore when they can just code once for xBox and run on both.

PC gamers however would end up with the inferior xBox versions rather than PC optimised versions we are used to.

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#5644823 Posted on: 02/28/2019 10:45 AM

Well when you look at the pc section here alone and see all the issues that some are having with the pc windows 10 versions of MS xbox ports, maybe playing the actual console coded version that runs perfectly fine on the console is the way to go, if it offers a more stable gaming experience then why not........of course assuming this rumour turns out to be true it will no doubt only be for MS first party games, don't expect to be firing up the xbox version of RDR2 on your pc as i doubt third devs would be too happy with that. Lol

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#5644825 Posted on: 02/28/2019 10:54 AM

Why not? How about lack of customisable controls, no FOV options, no ultra-widescreen, no newer features like raytracing etc (yeah I know but), no graphics options for higher or lower end cards, lack of optimisation, no higher end graphics textures, likely locked down DRM to UWP.

And i'm sure i'm missing plenty.

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#5644834 Posted on: 02/28/2019 11:18 AM

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

- but, can I refuse to???

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#5644846 Posted on: 02/28/2019 12:22 PM

a long long time ago...

I can still remember how my xbox played Bungie
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those noobies dance
And maybe I'd download their D-L-C

But February made me shiver
With the news xbox delivered
Bad news on forums
And I was never for them

I can't remember if I cried
When I read about 'new xbox live'
But something touched me deep inside
The day, the xbox died.

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#5644848 Posted on: 02/28/2019 12:36 PM

If this just means putting xbox one disc into pc and it plays like an xbox that would be cool.

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#5644849 Posted on: 02/28/2019 12:40 PM

What games? Xbox one have no games.

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#5644851 Posted on: 02/28/2019 12:44 PM

I like the idea if a full game list of game pass arrives at pc, not a shorten list as it is now

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