Will Xbox Console Digital Libraries Ever Run On PC?

[@nizzy33K]

It would be a great day for me if my digital library was available to play on PC without buying another license to the game.

[@NotFromHere.]

That’s why u pirate the game 😂

[@Mujigami]

Some xbox games support that which is called (play anywhere) which is mostly their first party games though but some third party games support it as well

[@leonidasxix4200]

Main reason I remember buying Halo Wars 2 digitally on Xbox instead of a physical one is that is supported Play Anywhere and I just built a new Pc at the time.

[@steven7297]

@@NotFromHere.yup the best way to play lol

[@ForTheViolence]

That’s the case for some games right now on Xbox. Some pretty good games at that.

[@bkillinm]

Being able to play the games I already own is the number one most important thing to me when it comes to upgrading or moving platforms

[@ellatgrasso2096]

And this is my biggest issue with the "anything is an xbox" campaign. I own hundreds of digital games on xbox. I can't play them on my pc. So how the hell is my pc an xbox?

[@gidamanco]

you'd be surprised at how many of them you can play on pc.

[@Szydelski]

@@gidamancoNone of his already bought. The same you could say about playing them on PS5, but that’s not the point, right?

[@mildhoof]

Oh it’s fine they’ll just probably charge you an ADDITIONAL subscription fee to access the games you already bought 😂

[@gidamanco]

@@Szydelski what do you mean?

[@Szydelski]

@@gidamanco That he can not play games he already bought for xbox on PC, unless he buy them second time.

[@nighttilt]

Xbox Play Anywhere is Xbox's most underrated feature. I go there first before Steam, GOG, etc. Cross-progression/cross-saves are great. I hope Xbox goes all in with this eventually.

[@ralfsta]

Agreed

[@Pokingclams]

I wish windows would get a resume play feature in the future.

[@WUKONGSerieS10GBofRAM]

Microsoft will stop marketing Xbox consoles in Europe claims insider Microsoft Could Stop Pushing Xbox Consoles In Europe, Other Regions Microsoft stop marketing of Xbox consoles in EMEA and focus only on Game Pass, Cloud, PC and Xbox Controllers bye bye haha

[@balaam_7087]

I’d rather have 20 games of superlative quality that can only be played in one place than a thousand mediocre titles I can play anywhere.

[@warmage247]

​@@WUKONGSerieS10GBofRAMman I've seen you across multiple Videos, imagine letting the thing you dislike live in your head for free and spend so much time on. Saddest crap I've seen and legit top tier autism. I laugh everytime.

[@highlycaffeinated6864]

Licensing and who owns the rights to certain titles is one of the most annoying things with digital software. Been waiting forever for a "No One Lives Forever" rerelease or remaster but I guess no one can figure out who actually owns this game.

[@jaimegarcia767]

@@highlycaffeinated6864 my abandonware *cough cough*

[@doubleohnine]

Always go physical. They can't come to your house and take the disks from you, but they CAN delete your library of licenses to access those games via the internet

[@Roach22]

They can’t because there’s no legislation for it ….. yet

[@CrespoFTW]

Xbox Play Anywhere is such a great feature but it only work on a handful of games. Example Yakuza like a dragon and Infinite Wealth and life is strange. buy it digitally on Xbox and can also play on windows. It's a gate way from being a console player to PC without spending extra on the same game. Played Halo MCC and Halo Infinite on PC after swapping and it's really great. Hoping more developers are open to Xbox play anywhere, but I could see them losing out money from selling a single copy instead of multiple.

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

Remember they created a forwards compatibility team after they announced they were ending the backwards compatible program so who knows it that only applies to only on whatever the next two Xbox devices are.

[@ghostravenstorm]

Games don't actually just "persist" on Steam. Yeah many do, but where is Fable III on Steam? It used to be there but no longer. I imagine the reason why Steam removed it is because the Games for Windows Live servers went offline forever. I have the physical PC DVD for Fable III and it needs to authenticate with those servers in order to install. This game has become vaporware. I can no longer play it legitimately- not even GoG has it available. However the Xbox 360 version of Fable III still works just fine. This is one of the main reasons why I went back to console gaming. The Windows ecosystem is constantly changing. Libraries and other dependencies that older games would need in order to run could just vanish in the next Windows update or something would end up being incompatible without significant legwork to repackage the runtime environment. Being a Linux dev, I know dependency headaches all too well and it's something I try to avoid entirely futzing around with in my gaming time. I just want to pop the disc in and have the damn thing work.

[@pglagowski]

Can't you still download it from Steam, though? I know the game wouldn't work since the GfWL servers are gone, but I don't believe Valve has ever removed a purchased game from someone's library.

[@OzOO-kr5uw]

amen brother. I have the same problem try to run Quantum Break yesterday I brought it for my xbox one x tried to install on my PC can not do it i brought it on steam but the game is in my library but without a Xbox the game is useless oh yeah its a digital also so how is this xbox everywhere going to work if i buy a Microsoft game on steam can i play it in the Xbox Launcher i mean they should have thought of this when they started these console

[@OzOO-kr5uw]

@@pglagowski Hay I been buying games and really not thinking that much about it but if I buy halo on steam that's a Microsoft game.That game should show up in my Microsoft Library as owned.all I'm saying is if Microsoft is going to make all these PC games i have work and play everywhere I'm all for it let's do it.

[@alext3811]

This is especially true for licensed games. I bought Transformers Devastation (made by PlatinumGames) some time ago, and can't use it because the Transformers license expired. So the only way to get the PC version is piracy now.

[@Isabel369]

I also abandoned PC gaming is no longer worth it. Windows is not stable enough for playing old games because those games have dependencies that are no longer available on Windows 11, which is one of the worst windows to run old games. Some of the games on my Steam library no longer work because of server issues but those same games on console have no problems. I can play them every day forever. I mostly use my PC for console emulation because it works.

[@Zetpherious]

Considering that Xbox runs on a version of Windows that's built on current Win 11, yes

[@kubby74]

Thanks for this! I am debating on selling my Xbox SX after buying a high end PC, but was bummed some digital games (Ridge Racer 6, Hard Corps Uprising) I would lose. Appreciate all you guys do!

[@JAGO_Tech]

Itll happen in some capacity for certain publishers ... some will opt out for historical library. The goal is Play Anywhere (& Cloud Save) moving forward for major releases (1st party first, then certain others).

[@djtomoy]

my xbox digital library is that free toyota yaris game from 2007 and those free doritos games, quite a collection i think you’ll agree!!!

[@balaam_7087]

Add those Burger King 360 games and that’s pretty much an Xbox greatest hits compilation.

[@llamalandYT]

Would love to see an external usb drive for PC that'd read xbox disks through the years. They did it with their HD-DVD drive, so why not do it again. Unless of course they see a digital only cloud future, which would be a huge shame.

[@KrzysztofBob]

If they create XboxOS, which would be able to handle all my XB library and could can run as a VM on my PC, they can announce their exit from the console market even tomorrow.

[@bogstandardash3751]

Great idea. Why on earth don't they do this?

[@matthewhardwick8208]

I figure that the Xbox handheld will have a console mode and a desktop mode. So you can natively run Game Pass titles and your entire library from console and PC on 1 device.

[@vadergravy]

Exactly what I've been thinking. That both the handheld and the next Xbox 'console' will function similarly to the Steam Deck. They'll boot into a traditional xbox console OS, and from there if you want to you can switch to desktop mode and boot into a version of Windows for the PC experience.

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

The way Phil said he wants Steam on Xbox I doubt it will be a dual mode vs a more open Xbox OS which is already Windows 10 stripped down.

[@RickyFish89]

yes I imagine something similar to steam deck, where you can boot into game mode which is the xbox-like ‘OS’ which has xbox storefront, presumably backwards compatibility, etc. Then you can ‘switch to desktop’ via the power menu like steam deck to get into full windows, install steam, etc. HOPEFULLY you could add games from windows into game mode, ala Steam Deck where when in desktop mode you can right-click anything and ‘add to steam’ which shows it in game mode- ideally you’d similarly be able to add steam games or games from epic or even just windows apps to be able to be launched in gaming mode. I don’t think that’s quite a given though, unfortunately. I also think this ‘game mode’ won’t be part of a windows install, but will have to come on machines that support it, e.g. you have to buy a device that has windows 11 gaming or whatever on it to be able to boot into game mode and by extension have and play xbox library of games; you can’t just build a pc, buy a windows license and start playing NHL 2018 that you bought digitally on xbox one. I think that would help get past the legal issues of digital rights to those games and microsoft positioning this as a successor to the xbox (covered by current rights) versus installing xbox games on a pc (potentially not covered by current rights).

[@chrisbachmann4546]

I imagine the only route where we see 360 discs being used on PC is if Microsoft releases a stand alone box that validates ownership of a game and permits a version to be downloaded via the xbox app. Much like how 360 backcompat works on XSX now. In theory such a box could be used to do the same with other future xboxes and current physical media. Such a box would also facilitate the use of physical disc games on a future Xbox handheld ; place disc in box, it sets a flag allowing use of an installed copy on the handheld while said disc is in said box.

[@Dorgpoop]

I agree. People are way too willing to abandon physical games when they're still the only video game media that allows you to sell or buy a license second hand. Even if the game doesn't directly run off the disc (which it hasn't since the Xbox one era), it's still incredibly useful to have a physical token that contains a legally protected license to a game. Nintendo shut down their wiiU/3DS digital storefront without offering any backwards compatibility to the switch, it's only a matter of time until another one of the video game giants that's considered too big to fail does it again and wipes out millions of people's digital libraries because they paid for access to a service rather than a license they outright own.

[@DICTATORX500]

It’s needs to be where you sign in on PC and all those games are on your account and someone like me that primarily plays on PC can go to the app and buy a Xbox port of a game that doesn’t have a native PC port

[@xNightHawk32]

Hmmm I feel licensing shouldn’t expire. Problem solved. Buy a game physical or digital, you should own the game. - I feel that’s how games should work.

[@ScottAhearnShipbuilder]

The big cloud bet just doesn't seem like it's paying off at all. It's not a reliable enough experience to recommend to people as an alternative to owning a console, and there doesn't seem to be anything on the horizon technologically poised to change that. If they're doing a defacto retreat to the PC, then they need to either introduce some kind of BC to Windows or sell the Series X forever. Maybe that "BC" amounts to linking more existing PC version of legacy titles together with PlayAnywhere. That would handle a whole lot of XBox One gen games. 360 BC, I'd like to see their emulator brought over to the PC, it would definitely be the right thing to do, but I don't expect them to do it. Third-party 360 emulation is getting there and will probably be there in the near future, but that comes with the inherent disadvantages of piracy (no Live access, cloud saves, etc). I'm really just feeling more and more like there aren't any moves left for XBox. Offloading console hardware to third parties who are going to want to profit from every box will fail for the same reason 3DO failed, they won't be able to be price competitive. Retreating to PC means retreating to another space where they're in a distant 3rd place - they've never successfully used their Windows monopoly to peel significant users from Steam. Their hardware strategies have resoundingly failed for two generations in a row and it's not hard to imagine a gaming space where it's 2K/Madden guys buying Playstations, kids and normals buying Nintendo, spendy adults putting their money into Steam, and nobody really missing Xbox. And I say that as someone whose console platform of choice has been Xbox for 15+ years. There are so many opportunities to turn it around that they've sped past. Fall of 2023 was probably the last real chance they had to move some hardware. They had 3 high-profile first party exclusives, and if just 2 of them had been both good and relatively finished. Starfield was finished but wasn't very good, Forza Motorsport was unfinished and bad (sorry John, it was bad and has only recently become fine), and Redfall was unfinished and bad. Three strikes, nothing to motivate people to buy marked-down Series Ses or Series Xes. I think historically that will be seen as the end.

[@ScottAhearnShipbuilder]

ok that's too much comment, sorry everyone

[@SIXminWHISTLE]

Same boat as the question asker. I hope they figure something out. I just bought my first gaming PC, but I have about 600 digital Xbox games and another 200-300 physical games that will keep me tied to the platform for a long time.

[@HomeFrogGames]

For me, this question is a crucial one to decide whether to still buy games on the Xbox ecosystem or not. Compatibility mode with Windows would make it such a versatile and future-proof investment, while limiting the compatibility to the Play Anywhere library makes investing in any Xbox console-only software a really hard sell with regards to the future.

[@mildhoof]

At this point, the only safe way to invest in the Xbox ecosystem is through a Gamepass subscription. They’ve made it clear that supporting their own hardware is not a long term, or even medium term objective.

[@ProtectusCZ]

Here before the "Xbox is gay" comments

[@Pulverizer2000]

Sold my xbox sx some months ago, only like 15 games showed up on my pc, I really want all my 110+ games to come to my pc

[@LegacyGunjin]

Windows is gay lol

[@pixeljauntvr7774]

​@@Pulverizer2000 Yeah same. Most shocking of all that Master Chief Collection was never included in the cross play selection.

[@balaam_7087]

Ha, I love that guy. Idk how he keeps getting away with those incendiary posts, but the man puts in work

[@williamtopping]

How gay is that

[@210gremlin]

That would be incredible. I’m going to hold onto my XSX for a while just to access my digital library

[@Poagoo]

They do have some games that are “play anywhere”, like Halo Wars, Halo Infinite, Stardew Valley, and Phantasy Star Online 2, where you buy it on Xbox or pc and you have it on both, along with all your saves, so if they can do it with those titles they can do it with the rest of the games that are available on both Microsoft store and Xbox store

[@VitalVampyr]

That works by providing both an Xbox and PC version of the game with cross-platform saves. It isn't a blanket solution for older Xbox games.

[@urazoktay7940]

Amazing video, thank you Digital Foundry.

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Fable 2 comes to mind - easily the best one ever made.

[@ForTheViolence]

If windows games can run on Linux with comparability software I don’t see how a direct X based Xbox game can’t run on a direct X windows pc.

[@BynoShadow]

This would be the ultimate loophole. Microsoft wouldn't have to worry about licensing, because the game wouldn't be running on Windows, necessitating another license for another copy of the game. It would be the Xbox game running on an emulated Xbox within Windows, so it would technically be running on "an Xbox"

[@davidsentanu7836]

​@@BynoShadowProblem with emulator is it means people can also play disc rips downloaded from the internet.

[@ForTheViolence]

@@BynoShadowI don’t even think they need a whole emulator. Just some compatibility software like wine.

[@happygofishing]

​@@davidsentanu7836wine is not an emulator

[@heideknight7782]

There is of course always the option to run another operating system on a virtual machine on Windows, so likely would also work with the Xbox OS. It would not be optimal, of course, since the VM also uses hardware ressources, but it would be a first step to make all Xbox games available on PC at once.

[@matt7684]

There's no way they'll make your whole Xbox library available with no extra cost to you. It'll absolutely be the cloud with a subscription fee and run horribly.

[@SeanComer-o4o]

That absolutely will be the case they've seen the light but like any corporate entity they're slow and clumsy in implementation.

[@Dorgpoop]

The backwards compatibility program for xbox 360 and Xbox games came at no additional cost. Even though it was expensive to do, they profited from it from being able to massively expand the game pass library, and from just generally being a major selling point over playstation.

[@Roach22]

It would likely be cheaper if MS just paid the publisher a bit of money to transfer Xbox game licences to a PC version of the same game (if one existed). The player would lose access to their digital Xbox game (or need to mail in their disc copy) if they agreed to it. But the publisher would make a bit of money they otherwise would not have received if MS allowed these games to be playable via a backwards compatible solution instead. I'm sure this would be quicker and easier than paying for the engineering work that would to make this happen.

[@FireStormHR]

Having my xbox library on pc is a must if Microsoft continues with this trends. Not only because of the reasons mentioned in the video, but there are also so many delisted games llike F1 2017 which I would not even be able to repurchase

[@marcosj5227]

Dont worry you'll never play it again

[@dradis1]

@@marcosj5227 great point. We should absolutely abandon any and every old game, even if we paid for them. Ownership is for chumps anyway.

[@buddhablue21]

Really want the Dead or Alive games and Ninja Gaiden Black on Steam.

[@naliboi93]

Agreed, this comment is pretty much me! Ninja Gaiden Black (along with vanilla NG2 and 3RE) and playable versions of every mainline Dead or Alive games (along with a few Soleil titles like Samurai Jack) keeps my Xbox One X plugged in. Got all my discs ready for the Team Ninja titles at least.

[@southsidetherealest2860]

Buy a One X

[@sandman8920]

I still can’t believe rare replay isn’t available on pc.

[@ShakenFungus]

I would buy it 2 more times if it releases on pc and Switch.

[@PedroSavioo]

This is the only hope for saving many games from forever limbo. Games like tomb raider underworld dlc, project sylpheed... and many games that are destined to be forever forgotten.

[@StraightcheD]

There are already many old Xbox games which don't run on the Series. It's not like the whole library is already available.

[@Dorgpoop]

That's true. I'm very glad I kept my old Xbox 360 because otherwise I couldn't play the old lord of the rings games. Even an Xbox one has a few kinect games that don't work on the series x.

[@FalconzFan13]

I think all platforms should HAVE to have universal backwards compatability (digital ONLY def makes native BC much harder/impossible for consumers w/ physical media.

[@zenbyo]

I don't see why not. I can see the Game OS running in a virtual address space as long as the hardware supports it.

[@devonmarr9872]

I just want a framerate and resolution remaster of Gears 1 - Judgement Like shadow, lightshafts, texture, and general resolution.

[@quarantinefox]

Based on 'glitches' people are seeing in the Xbox app on PC. There's going to be supported for Xbox libraries in some capacity going forward. Even if that's just via cloud.

[@southsidetherealest2860]

What glitches?

[@quarantinefox]

@southsidetherealest2860 Dark Glaive is the channel name.

[@scrustle]

Even if Microsoft themselves don't step up to make this possible, there is still hope with the XWine1 compatibility layer that seems to be pretty promising right now.

[@pglagowski]

For me, I'd love to see the ability to merge accounts together. I have an old 360 account with a ton of games that I, unfortunately, started to hack for achievements. It was banned from Live, so I started a second account to re-earn achievements and such. It would be nice if I could merge that library with my current account.

[@balaam_7087]

If criteria for trophies and achievements were standardized across the board, this would have been a non issue. I’m in sort of the same boat, although I approach it differently. Developers force bad trophies into games, like ones related to difficulty or game modes I have no interest in. So I play those games ‘just for fun’ on an alt account, while I pursue trophies on my main. If we had the option to delete games with partially completed trophy percentages from our accounts, or better yet if Sony/Microsoft/Steam dictated what is acceptable criteria and what is not, then both our problems would be solved.

[@lgolem09l]

What is the license difference between running an old game on an Xbox VS a windows machine though? I had the feeling that it was more a problem of timed licenses

[@ct2651]

Technically, back then the work to make a game on xbox wasnt compatible with making it on pc...

[@Manic_Panic]

One of my favorite games from last generation (CTR Nitro Fueled) was never ported to PC but it has an Xbox One/One X version that is backwards compatible on the Series S|X. But since my PC isn't an actual Xbox, I can't play it. Not even a native cloud version. I would love for Microsoft to merge Xbox and Windows into one ecosystem. Hell, we could play the definitive version of Saints Row 2 with all DLC as well.

[@seentursch]

I don’t think licensing will be a problem as they have talked about PC emulation of 360/OG games for ten years. With that kind of foresight they should’ve had licensing figured out. The games will run the same code as Xbox version of course.

[@cargorunnerUK]

I think they will rely on cloud streaming to make every device a backwards compatible xbox. Even a PC. That way you force people to keep their subsciption going.

[@spawnofapathy]

There are some games due to licensing you can still play on the Xbox if you bought it there, but can no longer buy it on PC. Those games I would be extremely interested in how they get handled.

[@epobirs]

As far as the 360 library, I think Microsoft would be in the clear if they continued to use the same iterative translation x86 binaries that were produced for running those games on the Xbox One. As far as OG Xbox goes, Microsoft has an emulation license from Nvidia for the hardware, and the derivative binary license probably would also apply. Though if one makes a list of all the original Xbox and Xbox 360 games worth sustaining that do not already have a native PC version, it wouldn't be a terribly long list. Is anyone really going to be heartbroken if they cannot play Xbox Madden from 2004 on a current PC?

[@LukeLunn]

This has always been my question if MS transitions over

[@lohiths5302]

What is the complication is cross porting saves? Its finally at the end of the day a file(likely a XML/JSON file) and both run windows? If files can move between Windows, Mac and Linux without issues I assume it can work between Xbox and windows.

[@RyanParreno]

I assume Microsoft can build something from their dev kit software to make a compatibility solution for Xbox games on Windows. Of course it's possible to make an official emulator but I don't know if that would make more sense

[@SeanComer-o4o]

I've been a proponent of creating a windows kernal that enables reverse porting from PC to Xbox since the Xbox one days when Xbox games first got ported to PC why this hasn't happened already is beyond my comprehension.

[@vac59]

Some games have been pulled from online stores. Like SpecOps the Line, licensing kills old games.

[@michaeleason1217]

Agree. I have a ROG Ally X and the Xbox app has the audacity to show me all of my OG Xbox and 360 games in my library but I can't play them. I even had to restart Fallout 3 and New Vegas because my saves from 360-One X-Series X doesn't transfer over, however Forza Horizon 4 saves did move over

[@thecarl1013]

Native backwards compatibility with xbox games for windows would be amazing. Xbox one should be easier to emulate, because its the same architecture and even the same directx api. Forza Horizon 2 is amazing and i always wanted to run this game on PC. But i remember that Microsoft was testing running xb1 games on windows 10. There's article on pcgamer website about it. Windows insider members was temporary access to "special edition" of state of decay on PC for free. And Microsoft wanted them to: "Just tell us about any problems you encounter with installing and launching the game" But the game was downloading not from windows store servers, but xbox live servers! And the game was in xvc file format, which xbox one uses. So looks like Microsoft was testing running xb1 games on windows. But sadly nothing more happened to this since this time.

[@rossta3949]

I bought the games on Xbox 360 and Xbox One, I should be able to play it on the PC if I want to. Especially since I no longer have either of those consoles. That's at least 3 or 400 games right there that I have on the Xbox ecosystem.

[@ThatPinkPanther]

Xbox should worry about making games that aren’t woke nonsense which no one wants to play, before trying to sell their netflix

[@southsidetherealest2860]

Xenia says Hello 😂

[@regularstan6212]

Seems like such a easy thing to do. Might as well

[@triplehitangrylord]

Give us back compatible program that runs on pc... use your physical collection of xbox, 360, one games. Then licensing is a non issue. Digital is a bit different. This solves at least half the problem, the other half being nobody uses physical drives on pc anymore.

[@gamertoon8230]

This would be the closest thing to Sonic Unleashed being on PC.

[@chrisboogie1762]

I support this cause I’m switching to PC

[@bucketophil]

Xbox learned with the bungled Xbox one launch that moves like this need to be over the long haul, not abruptly. I think in 7-8 years we’ll have this conversation again and the ecosystem being talked about here will be a reality.

[@Troller2890]

Does Games “Play Anywhere” not exist? They already do, so the title on this video is misleading The question in hand is whether or not entire libraries can become available as a “Play Anywhere” option

[@stevencuellarart9495]

I’m pretty sure Microsoft can find a way to transfer your Xbox game licenses to pc. It can be done but not sure if that’s ever gonna happen. It’s one of the reasons I stopped playing on my consoles and play more on steam.

[@mildhoof]

It’s a lot of work for no additional profit for Microsoft, wouldn’t hold your hopes up if I were you

[@Dorgpoop]

​​@@mildhoof I disagree. On paper the backwards compatibility program didn't generate any direct profit, especially for games that weren't listed on digital stores, but it's actually been a huge selling point of their consoles over playstation that has kept a lot of people from switching platforms. Having a console-PC cross compatible and backwards compatible ecosystem would make people way more confident that their video game library will be playable for decades to come, which isn't necessarily the case on an all digital platform like steam.

[@balaam_7087]

Fortunately, my Xbox digital library is very tiny (giggity) so I don’t have much of a problem either way.

[@TheDunbartxeen]

It should that´s just how it is. But i cannot even see my Library on PC....

[@jpcarsmedia]

Literally just care about PeaceWalker HD.

[@RandyAnthony37]

Xbox could make a easier to use plug and play platform on pc

[@SussyBaka_irl]

Love this idea cause I can ditch the Xbox moving forward & stick to a library of titles primarily available on PC

[@dnakatomiuk]

If my Xbox 360 purchases will work on PC that will be great but i think they will probably put it behind gamepass

[@ElrondKaresh]

If they did that I would actually use Xbox services again. I have 100+ games for Xbox but only 2 of them are "play anywhere"

[@AlexanTheMan]

This could have happened years ago, but Microsoft fumbled the bag during the Vista era when they tried to take on Steam with GFWL and failed spectacularly, given that the games needed to be ported to the PC first before they would be ever cross-compatible with their Xbox 360 counterparts. Unfortunately, Microsoft's priority was focused on shoehorning paid multiplayer with Xbox Live on PC before game compatibility.

[@snkfan]

I love DF Clips

[@lunaaria2092]

it will be the end of Xbox like what they did with Windows Phone OS

[@Gunnychief]

Xbox did confirm there next console. Phil said a handheld is in development back in November. Cloud is the future for Xbox. Did you notice in that This is an Xbox commercial the series S was not shown once.

[@modermonkula]

Only reason i own a series X is for back compat, and gta 6

[@Kattatonia]

Xemu (OG XBOX Emulator) Xenia (XBOX360 Emulator), translation layers are currently being worked on for XBOX ONE too. Yes your pc is an xbox lmao. You can literally gut the xbox live crap right out of the games and just play them the way nature intended.

[@decoyfox]

If the next Xbox is a hybrid PC then online play better be free or it's DOA

[@aeolussvichi7680]

3 PS ads in a 9 min video. What you doing DF lol

[@speedgoat7496]

What’s miffs me off is the pretence that Xbox is backwards compatible with 360, yes quite a few games have been ported and that’s it. Unfortunately DF have not corrected this. I was a huge 360 guy, then Xbox lost my loyalty as soon as they dropped my library with Xbox one and dropped my expensive 360 sim racing accessories, at the time I was shocked I couldn’t play with my new Forza wheel on Xbox one Forza. Switched to pc and ps.

[@Agumon5]

If I can play PC on Xbox and Xbox on PC ... Yeah, I'll stick to the Xbox ecosystem for sure. The question that I have is how would all this work with licensing? They would essentially have to emulate an Xbox on PC ... So that they could say they're still running on an Xbox. Or put an operating system like Xbox on PC? Not an expert on this, but I'm pretty sure you can't just take an old Xbox 360 game and retroactively make it run on PC without talking to the company who developed it for Xbox.

[@davidp5784]

microsoft always has some potential to do amazing things, but fumble it somehow. but that potential excites me way more than playstation currently does

[@jdlmon64]

As far as Xbox game disc goes all my gaming computers have blu ray drives.

[@G360LIVE]

Blu-ray drives can also play DVD discs.

[@steven2809]

@@G360LIVE?

[@jdlmon64]

@@G360LIVE I am aware of that

[@Wolfox360]

XboxOS will arrive!! Just buy the components compatible with the OS and the system will just work. I'm just a normal person, why am I the only one that always thought about this already more than 10years ago!!!

[@DanteXE]

Probably. They are transfering Xbox to PC and their next console will be Xbox optimized Windows OS.

[@Kirii86]

The vast majority of Xbox and Xbox 360 games wont work on a current Xbox Series machine. No way anyone is getting anywhere near 100% of content running on PCs when the numbers are something like 1 in 4 360 game and 1 in 20 OG Xbox games for BC on Xbox Series. Xbox BC was never about preservation, it was about weaponizing the feature against Switch and PS4 which lacked any BC.

[@jdlmon64]

If Microsoft owns the rights for the game then there is no licence restriction.

[@G360LIVE]

Not entirely. The Forza games are owned by Microsoft, but the car licenses are owned by the car manufacturers.

[@jdlmon64]

@G360LIVE ok so a small percentage of games may run into that problem.

[@arivera267]

What's the point of having a PlayStation In this generation???? Without having your tonsils blown out

[@ralphengland8559]

I hope so. Xbox as a play-anywhere platform (maybe supported by hardware) feels like the direction I could support.

[@akel135]

Xboc game streaming is the most laggy stream service...ever

[@AK2WI]

This is why I haven’t beat Elden ring. I got a pc in the middle of playing it. Didn’t want to buy it again

[@John117M63]

If Xbox Cloud gaming looked as good as Geforce now that would be a game changer. Right now its unbearable

[@TechDeckSurprise]

Microsoft thinking 20 steps forward but took 40 steps backwards somehow in 10 years is staggering. I’m not surprised, they have no real infrastructure to execute efficiently or effectively even when it’s comes to games let alone cloud gaming and cross saves 😞

[@SheddysGaming]

I'm going to yell. You've been warned. THIS IS WHY THE XBOX HANDHELD NEEDS TO NOT RUN WINDOWS! The console library is NOT THE SAME THING as gamepass/ windows xbox titles. The ally exists, we don't freaking need another one.

[@Voltomess]

I miss the times when PS and XBOX were closed systems , true definition of consoles where every game was exclusive to be played only on that console.

[@Daggershift21]

This comment is for the title of the video. Why wouldn’t Xbox (Microsoft) digital games run on Windows (Microsoft) PC? It’s a simple matter of code written within a game that prevents usage in other hardware. Discs will never be able to work with different hardware because you cannot change the security code. Digital on the other hand is limited to many games can become unlocked within a proper time to achieve library parody.

[@edwardlashley3572]

That’s what the cloud is for. Why would Microsoft even invest god knows what in trying to make this a reality? If we are asking whether you will be able to download Halo 5 (which has no pc port) onto a PC, install it & play it natively, the answer is clearly no.

[@edwardlashley3572]

The best you could hope for is Microsoft releases a hybrid that can run both pc games & Xbox games, some how, some way. This would be their version of a next generation console. But infant think this device would serve as a full fledged fully operational standalone pc. So basically you have to buy what amounts to an Xbox 5. This is different than downloading actual Xbox games onto your pc & running them.

[@hassosigbjoernson5738]

You bought a copy *for a specific system!* Nothing more. If you want to play am old 360 game: fire up that 360. Period! I bet MS offers a PC version whenever one is available! I could also imagine MS offering a cloud version on any device, especially for old titles, if such a cloud version is available and a streaming subscription (instead of the need for hardware) is active. For full compatibility you can always hold on to that XBox. A Series S should be easy to come by.

[@Theninjagecko]

Microsofts goal is gamepass on all devices. Imagine gamepass on ps5 but you could run the games natively on ps5, no streaming. That would be 100% revunue for microsoft and nada for Sony.