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binary solo on 15 April 2015
Vasto said:
I just hope that if you are streaming a game on the Xbox One to the PC that a person can still use the Xbox One for something like Netflix. I don't want it to be were the Xbox One is locked into just the streaming and cant do anything else.

That woould be pretty awesome. Actively running a game and an App simultaneously seems like it would be quite a challenge for consoles. It's simple enough to have one active programme and one dormant as it requires little processing to keep a programme in a dormant state. But even though something like Netflix isn't all that demanding, it still does demand processor, RAM and GPU resources. The RAM thing might not be an issue, but I think GPU and CPU might be a bit weak (on all the consoles) to achieve this. Especially if you're playing a game that developers claim "maxes out" the console.



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Zappykins on 15 April 2015
KdxlavkdX said:
Oooh, i'm really looking forward to this!

Yea, it seems excieting and in a way, big.  Like now VCR changed TV watching, or Streaming changed the way we watch movies and television.

Now any (most) device in your house will be able to be used for gaming/viewing.  That access to the information becomes easier and the devices themselves less important.  As you could switch out a tablet, for a newer one, easily.



 

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binary solo on 15 April 2015
shikamaru317 said:
binary solo said:
shikamaru317 said:
Hopefully it won't take them long to implement the opposite, I want to be able to stream PC games to Xbox One as well.

Why on earth would they do that? Kinda defeats the purpose of wanting people to buy Xb one games, which gets MS a heckuva lot more revenue than PC game sales. Streaming Apps from PC to Xb one makes sense since those Apps aren't cramping Xb one's style. Streaming PC games to Xb one definitely cramps Xb one's style.

They already said that it's in the works. Maybe it'll only work with PC games bought through the Windows 10 store, so that they're still getting revenue.

Interesting.  It seems like a counterintuitive move, perhaps there's a commercial advantage that I'm not seeing.



“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

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Imaginedvl on 15 April 2015

This is a great feature. I'm so looking forward for this.
Same as the opposite (being able to stream PC games to my Xbox Ones).



HokageTenshi on 15 April 2015

thought it need Windows10 for this feature... 



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Mistershine on 17 April 2015
binary solo said:
Vasto said:
I just hope that if you are streaming a game on the Xbox One to the PC that a person can still use the Xbox One for something like Netflix. I don't want it to be were the Xbox One is locked into just the streaming and cant do anything else.

That woould be pretty awesome. Actively running a game and an App simultaneously seems like it would be quite a challenge for consoles. It's simple enough to have one active programme and one dormant as it requires little processing to keep a programme in a dormant state. But even though something like Netflix isn't all that demanding, it still does demand processor, RAM and GPU resources. The RAM thing might not be an issue, but I think GPU and CPU might be a bit weak (on all the consoles) to achieve this. Especially if you're playing a game that developers claim "maxes out" the console.


Would it be any different to snapping netflix while playing a game? You can already stream TV to a smartglass device while playing a game I believe.



Mistershine on 17 April 2015

Has anyone here managed to get this working? I have the option enabled on my Xbox and the Xbox app installed on Windows 10 but can't see how to get the stream going.