Yeah play anywhere is pretty great. When I don't feel like using my xbox one or someone else is using it I can just play a game on my PC.

Here's a question since we are sorta on topic. How many people on vgc even have a gaming PC? Cause Forza horizon 3 isn't exactly gonna run on a toaster even on low settings...

Oh no. it's great that MS is putting their games on PC. It's just, is it great for Xbox One? I mean, in the end, the message is "you don't need our box to play our games". The only downside is they still haven't made 360 b/c available for Win 10. The upside, starting with no Live needed to play, is, well, everything else.

I imagine some will pipe up on owning a really old lappy or two as well as an old pre-built desktop from 5 years ago. Only a few on here have custom built rigs from the past 4-5 years.

I think there are only 5 of us here that own anything above a 980 let alone a 1080.

I like the xbox as a companion console but its not much more than that. If the games where exclusive I would have had to get an xbox earlier for forza horizon 3 and gears 4 those games are just long-lasting and amazing games to play.

Anyway, I like the direction Microsoft is going with play anywhere. very pro consumer and it gives options on how you want to play games.

It's fine with me , I don't have to buy xbox one this gen.
Last gen i bought both ps3 and xbox 360 to play all exclusives. :P

My problem with this site is this:

Someone says PCs are a great place to play games... Response from people "PCs are way too expensive"

Someone says the xbox one x is great... Response from people "Neh, I can just play xbox exclusives on my PC"

It's like... You do realize games like Forza Horizon 3 and Gears of War 4 need decent/good PCs to even play them on low settings right? PCs are known to be very scalable yes but there is still a minimum...

Ik that not everyone says it but it urks me when some people are just urghh

They might deserve praise for making them available on PC as well, yet they don't deserve praise for not having many multi plat exclusives (or what's the word today, play anywhere exclusives?) in total. What is MS adding to the industry besides more ways to charge for games.

The only thing I'm really interested in is Forza, which won't run on my laptop and that alone is not enough to buy another console for. Plus VR has come along to raise the bar. MS could have had me back with focus on VR for XBox One X. Maybe next year.

Good for the consumer.... they can avoid buying a Xbox One, and use their PC instead.

Well let's put it this way. If you're someone who bought an Xbox One on launch day for $500 and it turns out that you could have simply played those games on a PC that may have already had, it would make your Xbox feel like a huge paper weight. Remember that Microsoft did not start this whole cross platform thing until quite sometime after Xbox One's launch.