Microsoft Wants To Stream PC Games On The Xbox One

Earlier this year Microsoft announced a nifty feature that would allow Xbox One gamers to stream their games onto the PC. This can be convenient since sometimes you might want to play your games in the privacy of your own room, or maybe someone wants to watch the TV but you don’t want to give up your gaming session.

However what if the reverse was possible? What if you wanted to play your PC games on the Xbox One in your living room where maybe you have a bigger TV setup with a better sound system? Turns out that it something Microsoft is interested in and is apparently working on such a feature.

This was confirmed by Xbox boss Phil Spencer who spoke to The Verge. According to Spencer, “We understand if you’re going to go PC to Xbox, we need to get keyboard and mouse working completely so you could play those games. In terms of where we want to go with our platform, those are absolutely in scope of things that we want to do.”

However Spencer notes that there might be some challenges, such as finding the right way to encode PC games so that it can stream to the Xbox One smoothly and reliability, but it seems that the challenge is welcome. “It’s actually a little more challenging doing the encoding on the PC side to the Xbox, but challenge is good.”

Unfortunately no word on when such a feature might arrive, but it might be worth looking out for.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Computers, Gaming
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox One