With Sony’s PlayStation 4 having far outsold the Xbox One, it’s tempting to think that the recently-unveiled Xbox Play Anywhere could be an strategy by Microsoft to catch up by attracting more PC gamers to the Xbox One. Not so, says Phil Spencer, the chief of the company’s Xbox division…
Xbox Play Anywhere is an initiative enabling players to enjoy a game on either Xbox One or Windows 10 and, at any time, switch to the other platform without losing any of their progress. In an interview with The Guardian, Spencer says that “some of our best and most active customers on Xbox One are also PC gamers – so we see this opportunity to service the customer and where they actually play”.
He added: “Sony is doing incredibly well with the PS4 but they’re doing something fundamentally different from us. We’re not building a strategy in response to what they’re doing, we’re building a response to what I see customers and gamers asking us for.”
Xbox Play Anywhere will go live on September 13, with games set to allow the seamless cross-platform play including Halo Wars 2, Gears of War 4 and Forza Horizon 3.