New Xbox One/PC Features Not in Response to PS4's Lead, Microsoft Says

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At E3 2016 last month, Microsoft made some major announcements related to its platform strategy going forward. One of these is a*You must login or register to view this content., which will bring*You must login or register to view this content.*and*You must login or register to view this content.*closer than before.Now, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has spoken up to say Microsoft's efforts to partially unite console and PC are not in response to*You must login or register to view this content..

"Sony is doing incredibly well with the*You must login or register to view this content.*but they're doing something fundamentally different from us," he toldYou must login or register to view this content.. "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."For its part, Sony's Andrew House recently suggested that the company isYou must login or register to view this content.."I always hesitate to be drawn into discussions of someone else's strategy," he said during a meeting with analysts and investors this month. "I'm more than happy to talk about our own strategy. Yes, there was a big emphasis from the folks at Microsoft on Xbox and PC cross-play. It remains to be seen whether there is latent large consumer demand for that."But we don't see it as really effecting or prompting any change in our thought process and strategy," he continued. "We've always tended to believe that a proprietary ecosystem offering a very well crafted, unified client experience is the way to go, and that sort of remains our strategy."Also in the interview, Spencer said Microsoft is not trying to "turn PC gamers into console gamers or console gamers into PC gamers." The Play Anywhere feature is all about choice and catching up with other forms of media."So if you're at school and want to play a couple of rounds of a game and then you go back home and want to continue on your couch, that seems normal," he said. "Every other kind of media--your music, your movies--everything else works that way."As part of Play Anywhere, users can buy a game digitally on Xbox One and get the PC version free or vice versa. As Spencer mentioned, your progress will move with you wherever you're playing, though there*You must login or register to view this content..Play Anywhere*You must login or register to view this content.and continues withYou must login or register to view this content.*later in the month, while*You must login or register to view this content.*will also support the feature. Some non-Microsoft games, including*You must login or register to view this content.*and*You must login or register to view this content., are also included in the Play Anywhere catalog.In other news about Play Anywhere, Microsoft recently cleared up some confusion about the supported games, saying*You must login or register to view this content.. A blog post from Microsoft previously stated that that all future Microsoft-published games would be Play Anywhere titles.

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