The launch of Windows 10 yesterday means that gamers can now stream Xbox One titles to their PCs via the new Xbox app. The other way around, though? That’s trickier.
Speaking with The Verge, Xbox’s Phil Spencer detailed the dificulties.
“It’s actually a little more challenging doing the encoding on the PC side to the Xbox, but challenge is good,” Spencer said.
The question of PC to Xbox has been asked since Microsoft detailed Xbox to PC functionality.
“People ask about the streaming in the opposite direction — can I stream from my PC to my Xbox? — and I’ll just say it’s something that we’re really looking at,” Spencer said back in January. “This announcement is what we have, but if you think about that vision — my games are my games wherever I am, and I can play with whoever I want to play with — we want to be able to land solutions that are as native as the one we showed there. We just have to kind of work with the physics of time and try to work it development schedules.”
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