Windows 10 19H1 Update may allow for Xbox One games to be installed - Sensationalist Headlines

I think the best case scenario for this is that Microsoft games and companies willing to partner with Microsoft on this will have their games playable on PC. I feel like a lot of companies, especially big ones like Rockstar and Squenix will oppose this.

I can't imagine they'd oppose to earning more from PC gamers while not even doing anything, since Microsoft will be the one who'll do all the "porting". I mean, that'd be very dumb of them to oppose it, but who knows what's on their minds.

Idk, I mean on one hand yes, on the other hand it'd probably save them a lot of time porting their games. Then again, they can't resell them for $60 with ENHANCED features. You know RDR2 for Pc is going to have Ray-tracing. Either way, we're definitely getting Halo for PC.

If this turns out to be true then I'm suddenly glad I bought KH3 on XB1 instead of PS4 lol. I'll keep my anticipation low, though.

Third-pardy publishers will never agree to having their games just suddenly made available on a new platform. I imagine this will not provide us with too many titles that are actually desirable.

They're already doing that though. Any game you buy on the Microsoft store can be played on an Xbox One and any Xbox One program that's on PC can be played on PC, as long as you're using the same account. All the new Xbox One games they release are also being released on PC. It's the Play Anywhere program and they've had it for a while. Sure, there aren't a lot of games on the Play Anywhere program right now, but it'll only expand with time.

Brad Sams has a long history of writing articles onthe topic of windows Used to read his works daily on Neowin It does say May in the title I would be able to test this myself if I wanted. But I have not been on insider builds for a few months, neither have the bandwidth to download SoD2. My previous dump of the game from a half a year ago lies on a supposely dead hard drive 😢

Isn't the next Xbox supposed to basically be a desktop pc that runs win10 anyway?

Which is what wine actually is, wine does not emulate anything, it's just an implementation of windows on linux

Phil Spencer spoke of UWP apps on Xbox as forward compatible, so it definitely sounded like near drag-and-drop compatibility.

Uh, well, considering that Xbox One games are literally fucking built on the UWP foundation, I'd wager to say that was expected from the start. I mean what did you possibly expect? These aren't Win32 binaries we're talking about.

Is this such a bad thing? We get it, it's got a really bad rap, but if they rewrote the Store app in a feature update to have less jank (basically inevitable tbh) would it be the end of the world?

Its kinda anti-competitive, if hypothetically (and this is still a big if), most games were direct ports of Xbox One games it could freeze out Steam.

Well of course, we have tons of Steam competitors already. But this is probably one of the more promising ones. An offline mode (more than what Epic's got right now) Crossplay with Xbox if the developers allow it Gigantic install base of basically every Xbox console plus every PC user who cares about games A well liked SDK with mature graphics APIs (Xbox XDK and DX12) DRM bypass involves messing with your Windows install (big risk which can scare would-be pirates off) all first party Microsoft games will be released on the platform works with all Xbox peripherals out of the box

Yes of course it would be, if there was no way to sideload (without enabling developer mode, although afaik there are ways) it would be anti-competitive, as windows ships with the store and if the store is the only place where you can get UWP apps from it would be anti-competitive.

I think if microsoft did this they really wouldn't need permission would they? that's like if I made an emulator, I don't need permission from companies for my users to run it. A different thing is putting the games on the microsoft store, but if you could just simply take an XBO disc and put it on a PC there's not much they could do afaik.

There is always a way to sideload UWP apps. Its designed that way for enterprise (no enterprise is going to publish internal apps on a public store). There are three tiers, Windows Store only, sideloading, and developer mode. MS doesn't use UWP to lock you into the Windows Store, that would be dumb. Its simply a replacement for the aging Win32 because they know it won't last forever.

UWP is sandboxed in a way that we can't inject into it. It sucks as a result, since it kills all current modding techniques.

Injector is getting an attempt at a fix up at some point in the future after sort-of not working on more recent versions of the UWP SDK https://github.com/Wunkolo/UWPDumper/issues/13 Who would win, multi billion dollar organisation and their walled garden or some worm boi