Microsoft Recommits to PC F2P Forza 6| All Future titles on PC

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Microsoft’s engineers are working to tie its game console and the PC closer together, promoting technology that allows users of the Xbox Live multiplayer gaming service to compete against counterparts on the PC.

“Historically, gamers stay in their own lanes,” said Lewis Ward, who tracks the industry for researcher IDC. “Microsoft wants to prove to the developer community that this is actually a much bigger ecosystem (by) crossing from the living room into the PC.”

The technology to back up Microsoft’s ambitions isn’t ready yet.

Major games featuring PC-to-Xbox interplay haven’t arrived as finished products. A separate project to link Microsoft’s PC-focused Windows store with the selection of games and applications available on Xbox has not been completed.

 

They say this like it wasn't already a thing between PS3 and PC back in the 7th gen, and that the indie game Rocket League does this, and Street Fighter V.  Why is it so hard for MS to have it's own platforms interact in this way?

Also a F2P cut down version of Forza and other games? Interesting approach. Will PC gamers get enough of a fix of these games, or will they feel compelled to buy the console for the full experience.  But that doesn't really gel with a commitment to gaming on PC. It's still about driving the Xbox console and just using PC as a marketing tool.

Ultimately, Spencer says, Microsoft’s goal is to meet gamers on any device, enabling them to pause a game they were playing on an Xbox and pick up where they left off on a laptop, or, eventually, even more mobile devices.