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"Phil Spencer: Xbox Play Anywhere cross-gen across Scarlett, One, PC" - Stevivor

Gowans

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Xbox Game Studios titles will aim to support Xbox Play Anywhere functions including cross-play, cross-buy, cross-saves and Achievements across Xbox One, Project Scarlett and Windows PC, Xbox head Phil Spencer told Stevivor at X019 in London.

At this past weekend's event, Stevivor asked Spencer if a first-party title like Halo Infinite — confirmed for Xbox One, Scarlett and PC — could be used across all three platforms as games including Gears 5 and Sea of Thieves are via Xbox Play Anywhere across Xbox One and Windows PC.

"That's our goal," Spencer said. "Our goal for our first-party games is that your entitlements will be cross-generation and your Achievements will move effectively with your save game because that's where they stand."

Spencer added that the transitionary period between Xbox One and Scarlett should be far more consumer-friendly than that between Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

"[Xbox] 360 to One shouldn't have been [two self-contained silos] either," Spencer asserted. "We talked about how important digital was going to be this generation, and yet we didn't move the digital purchases that you'd made on 360 seamlessly over to Xbox One. I always thought that was a miss."



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Transistor

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Play Anywhere is my favorite initiative of theirs right now, even more than Gamepass. As long as I have a powerful PC, I can simply play all the games on it and not have to buy an extra console.
 
Quinton

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How long until Stevivor gives Scarlett a 3/10 whilst berating Hideo Kojima

EDIT: Sorry for the drive-by. I suffered my first ever infraction as a result! D:
 
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PeskyToaster

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Transistor said:
Play Anywhere is my favorite initiative of theirs right now, even more than Gamepass. As long as I have a powerful PC, I can simply play all the games on it and not have to buy an extra console.
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Yeah it's so cool. I bought Gears 4 for my Xbox One but I mainly just played it on PC. My PC is my main Xbox gaming device now that I got it up to speed and it's great and I'm glad their supporting it.

On a side note, that headline is kind of confusing and I don't think the colon is properly used.
 
TRios Zen

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Feel like this is a pretty pro-consumer thing to do. I'll probably switch to next gen pretty quickly, but glad those that take a more conservative approach aren't left out in the cold.
 
Jiraiya

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I'm hoping sports titles don't mess this transition up. If i buy madden in august...i should automatically be able to download the next gen version once they hit.
 
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Gowans

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If they want any chance of me buying their games next year instead of waiting for Scarlet you would think they would be forward thinking and op into something like this.

I expect the same from all the platform games too.
 
Prine

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So I guess this is the same for XCloud too? I can start via xCloud for instance at a mates house, head home and continue on a locally installed version of the game?
 
Windrunner

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"[Xbox] 360 to One shouldn't have been [two self-contained silos] either," Spencer asserted. "We talked about how important digital was going to be this generation, and yet we didn't move the digital purchases that you'd made on 360 seamlessly over to Xbox One. I always thought that was a miss."
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So... are you going to fix this? It's the worst part of the digital Xbox experience.
 

Mountainous

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its kinda sad that the Xbone is built on a win10 kernel, is x86 based but doesnt already have these features across the board.
 
inner-G

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Nice

this has been amazing for games like FH4 as a PC player. It's super easy toswitch between desktop/laptop/living room PC too. It just syncs your save and it's good to go. Sometimes it resets the video settings though, I think maybe after driver or game updates.
 
Mesoian

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This is really great, but i'm interested to know their plans for xcloud, gamepass, play anywhere and THIRD party developers.
 
Black_Stride

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Now just tell us how much the upgrade to Scarlett is going to be.

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Vinc

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Continuing to break down all artificial barriers over at Xbox, I'm loving all of it.
 
SuikerBrood

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With Game Pass you could already play all these Xbox One games on Scarlett. But it's nice to see that they'll be one game. So one set of achievements, one game in your library. The fact TOW was two was a small annoyance.
 
blitzblake

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I'm hoping it'll be as smooth as popping in a new graphics card. all your past games just work and play better.
 
NeoBob688

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Uhhh, they keep talking about this but Halo Master Chief collection doesn't even support this!
 
Falchion

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Love to hear him acknowledge the problems of the One starting out and it's really nice to hear they plan to keep this initiative going.
 
freakybj

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That's good for XGS titles, but does that mean the same for all your digital purchases including non-XGS games?
 
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