http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/15/microsoft-xbox-one-pc-cross-platform-play-makes-sense?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook
[quote]Cross platform play between Xbox One and PC "makes a lot of sense," Microsoft Corporate Vice President Phil Spencer has acknowledged in an interview with Ausgamers.
A connected ecosystem is the way the industry is heading, elaborated Spencer, and Microsoft has learned a great deal from its past experiments with games like Shadow Run and Skulls of the Shogun.
"I’m not allowed to leak things [smiles]," said Spencer. "But I think what you’re talking about makes a lot of sense. Now you have differences in Windows gaming and console gaming around control and input... in fact if you go back to Shadow Run on Xbox 360 -- something I worked on -- we had PC players playing against Xbox 360 customers. We didn't have tremendous success with that, but we learnt a lot from it."[/quote]
I know this doesn't confirm anything at all, but I mean...this is Phil Spencer, somebody who is high up in the Xbox chain-of-command, and he's even saying that cross-platform play makes a lot of sense. Maybe this a hint that current Xbox exclusives may be heading to PC, or maybe even the more obvious one, cross-platform games will be cross platform compatible for multiplayer.
Either way, I really hope that this is a sign of what the future of gaming holds. If so, it's going to be pretty awesome.
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MS Needs to step up their game.