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Ryuu96 on 09 June 2025
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G2ThaUNiT said:
Ryuu96 said:

Not this UI but a Xbox UI. The next Xbox console is going to be a PC-like system either way so I'll wait for that but it would be pretty cool if they bring "Xbox" to all Windows PC too.

I'm still trying to figure out how the next Xbox will be a PC. Primarily because of Play Anywhere. The whole concept of the program is that you get the game on console and PC, and vice versa. If the next Xbox is PC like in nature, then what's the point of Play Anywhere?

I noticed Xbox has changed their showcase wording compared to the past few showcases too.

Before it was "every game shown today will be on Xbox Game Pass"

This time it was "every game shown today will be on Xbox Play Anywhere"

So with this big of a push for Play Anywhere, then there will still have to be a huge differentiator between the Xbox console and PC.

Idk how they'll set it up but it seems like based on everything we know the future is an Xbox-PC Hybrid. Whether that is a cut back Windows based device with an Xbox OS pre-installed into it (but with access to other PC Stores) or maybe an Xbox device with access to a streamlined Windows OS which can access other stores, the future is definitely not just another traditional Xbox hardware, that wouldn't make sense at all now.

I think Play Anywhere makes sense because the roadblock for this future wouldn't be stuff like tech, that's all there, they could easily emulate the entire library of your Xbox device onto Windows if they really wanted to, the real roadblock is licenses, if you purchased a game on Xbox, you do not have a license to play it on a PC device, but Play Anywhere gets around that by being a singular license.

And Play Anywhere ensures the stuff is there natively so when the switch happens, as much as our library as possible will be available natively, the rest will likely have to be emulated with new license agreements formed with developers/publishers so some will be lost, but that's why they're pushing Play Anywhere now so hard for anything that releases from now to the future. If anything this huge Play Anywhere push to me points even more to a further where they attempt to merge everything; Xbox/PC, Windows Store/Xbox Store.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 09 June 2025