By Jon Porter
Ironically, given it was in the PC gaming business long before it got into consoles, Microsoft has caught a lot of flack in recent years for leaving PC gaming behind.
While the likes of Blizzard and Valve continue to put out excellent PC games year after year, Microsoft’s support of the platform has felt like an afterthought, with PC ports of console games that have arrived late or not at all.
Announced at this year’s E3, the Xbox Play Anywhere initiative was supposed to change all that. But the reality leaves something to be desired at the moment.
Anywhere problems
For the uninitiated, the initiative is a cross-buy scheme for Xbox and Windows which allows you to buy a game once and own it on both the Xbox One games console and Windows PC platform.
Microsoft positioned the scheme as bringing parity to the two pieces of hardware, which would receive simultaneous game releases and bring to an end the criticism that Microsoft has left the Windows platform to prioritise its own hardware.
But in my experience, the initiative, at least on PC, has not had a great start.
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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