Windows 10 can stream Xbox One games to PC and tablets
Microsoft has announced its Windows 10 will support the ability to stream Xbox One games onto PCs and tablets.
Xbox One owners will soon be able to enjoy their console experience from their PC as Microsoft has announced Windows 10 will be able to stream Xbox One titles on any PC or tablet.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced the feature to Windows 10 during this morning's presentation as he showed Forza Horizon 2 streaming from a Surface Pro 3. "With Windows 10 we will enable streaming of Xbox One games to any PC or tablet running Windows 10, later this year," Spencer said. During his streaming, he was able to access the Xbox One hub, which we assume means we'll be able to enjoy a majority of features from the console on our PC.
This is a pretty big deal considering how many PCs there are in the world. Being able to stream a PlayStation 4 onto a Vita or Sony Xperia device is great and all, but Microsoft has just stepped up the streaming game now that any PC that runs Windows 10 will be able to stream Xbox One content.
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And no body cares.
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I care. That makes your claim incorrect.
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I care!
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That's two cares. Not looking good, baron calamity.
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so negative! I think its awesome!
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It might be the closest anyone gets to ever seeing Halo on their PC again, but yeah, at that point, just use your Xbox One.
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It's not pointless. It's a necessary step to get us to the point where the game isn't run locally at all, but in the cloud. This has been talked about more and more lately. It'll be the next thing. OnLive, et al, have been the forerunners, but it will be what the next gen of consoles will be; if not the end of life of the now current gen systems.
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This exactly. Now I won't need to worry about moving the Xbox back and forth
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Exactly. I don't get why so many people seem to be ignoring this, probably remarkably common, use case scenario. I'm guessing most of the people who don't get the appeal are single or, at a minimum, not co-habitating with others. And, to be clear, that's not meant as an insult or a snarky comment, I'm being completely serious. The "wife/girlfriend/roommate/sibling/parents/etc. are watching TV so I'll stream this to my PC/laptop/tablet" scenario was the first thing that came to mind when I read about that announcement.
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the Wii U essentially adds an expensive piece of dedicated hardware for similar functionality
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It is at least as useful as PS4 -> Vita streaming or using the WiiU pad to play when the TV is in use.
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commence excitement about streaming PC games to non existent Steambox
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My Surface pro 2 has become a steam box and it's pretty fucking great.
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Literally nobody
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I do.
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What the fuck is up with these posts? They go out of their way to try to create things for people to use, they're doing interesting cross platform stuff, adding value that some people really want (not everyone is YOU) and all people can do is fucking bitch bitch bitch. I'm a huge hater on a million things, but this shit is getting ridiculous. I always thought threadshitting was nukable, but whatevs.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of the Internet. Everybody who has an opinion will share it, regardless if it's helpful or not. baron calamity attempted to shit on this bit of news, but I think his comment makes him look pretty ignorant of not only what this kind of service means for gaming as a whole, but also how out of touch he really is to the Shacknews audience.
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"You know I really want to play Microsoft's games on my PC.
But I hate them and their shitty games."-
I own an Xbox One. What I really want is Microsoft to put more effort into pc gaming beyond adding me too features that are already kinda available. It doesn't have to be Xbox One ports. New pc gaming hardware, or maybe pc specific games. They have a few ips, or even make new ones. Geez. I'm not expecting much. Just more than "look, you can steam games to your pc from a $300 box you need to purchase separately"
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You seem a bit high strung. Chill out a bit. Yes i'm over generalizing but this does nothing for the pc, and pc gaming. Its all about enabling the Xbox One to have slightly more functionality. It doesn't seem to be a killer app or even that useful. A tiny fraction of Xbox One owners may do this but really, its going to be more hassle than its worth for most console gamers. Its an app. not even a part of the core os' functionality. It was a waste of time at this Windows 10 event.
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Nope, not high strung at all, just very confused. Yours is a pretty niche opinion, as calling it a "waste of time" when millions are interested is pretty short sighted and sounds almost biased. You may not like MS and their strategies, but that doesn't mean you can just pull conclusions like yours out of thin air.
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that would be fantastic but I'm pretty happy with what they announced. If it works well with minimal lag then it will work great for me
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Like Project Shield-style remote play? I like that idea.
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That would be nice, but from a technical standpoint I can see why it's not being offered. Streaming from something is dependent on hardware, and PCs are notoriously varied in hardware. Trying to get a streaming app to work reliably with even 25% of the configurations out there would be difficult without direct assistance from the major 3D card manufacturers, and since both are looking into their own streaming devices (Nvidia mostly) that's not gonna happen.
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The question is, are you still limited to using a gamepad even on your PC? Not to knock the ability to play games elsewhere without having to move the console, but one of the biggest divides between console and PC gamers is preferred control method. It would feel a bit lame to stream an fps and be prevented from using WASD.
That said, even if they do mandate that, some bright spark will find a driver hack or virtual joystick on the PC that works for what the app wants, letting us use KB+M. It would just be nice if that was officially allowed. -
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remains to be seen if its 0 lag or half assed like sony's
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From what I've read, yes. Basically, if my fiancé is watching Dog Whisperer on the TV, I'd be able to stream Halo right to my SP3.
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I can't see when this would be of use. Care to elaborate on why this is a good feature, because to me this seems like a solution for a problem that no-one has.
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One thing I'm curious to learn is if it streams exactly what's on screen or if you can access your Xbox One games on your PC. If it just copies exactly what the Xbox One is displaying, this would defeat the purpose if it's being used to watch TV.
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I hope so, too. I really hope so.
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/resumes loving playing Mario in bed on his Wii U controller
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pretty sure MS would love to put xbox1 games on PC but you know by doing that it will kill their console
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or they could stream pc games to the xbox one. Crazy I know.
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Pretty sure more people would opt to stream from XB1 to PC than the other way around. At least with XB1 to PC, you have more control over that content versus the other way around you have the wild west of games and hardware to stream from.
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I agree with you ^^^ I would settle for Forza 2 on the PC and be able to play it in three screens.
I really don't know what the point is I have everything in the same room I press a button on my amp remote to a diff HDMI setting and I play my XB1 and flip back to my PC.
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Now you can play ugly shit on your over-powered setup!
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Steaming console games to a tablet. So you either have to buy a stand to hold your tablet to use it as a tiny monitor for your console or grow a third arm.
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Yeah, because they couldn't possibly design a shell for tablets or some sort of accessory that holds the tablet in a type of controller. Do you complain about every mobile game ever that's not Angry Birds? People play console type games on tablets all the time, your argument holds about as much water as a bottomless glass.
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PC to Xbox One would be rad.
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But now people are going to have to get girlfriends to use that feature!
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I'm super not caring.
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It is a feature of Windows 10, I imagine if your MacBook Pro is capable of running Windows 10 then it will work.
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I don't think there's anything Windows that doesn't work normally on a Mac via bootcamp as long you get Apple's hardware drivers installed
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but that's not intrinsic to Windows on Mac, it's just Mac lacking the hardware. Plenty of Windows laptops also wouldn't have a TPM.
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I don't own an Xbox but I don't understand the hate. It seems like something that has its uses just like steam streaming, the WiiU pad, PS4 -> vita streaming and this costs nothing extra so why so much bitching?
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PC can't play Sunset Overdrive or Forza Horizon 2.
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Hmm I was hoping it would go the other direction...
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http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/01/21/microsoft-is-working-on-streaming-from-the-pc-to-the-xbox-one.aspx
It is easiest to start from the Xbox since you know exactly what hardware you are working with.
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The primary advantage I can think of is for developers/publishers that only want to go through a single submission process, with all the expense and potential delays that can entail. I think that's a decent offer for publishers who don't want to go through the swampy process of PC QA as well.
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Assassins Creed Unity seems like an obvious candidate! :)
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