Though Microsoft is looking to spread Xbox One multiplayer support exclusively between systems, Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios, believes that PC shouldn’t be left out in the cold.
Speaking to AusGamers, Spencer didn’t quite confirm there would be Xbox One-to-PC cross platform play but said it “makes sense,” qualifying his statement with, “I’m not allowed to leak things.”
Microsoft tried the cross-over process before with the 2007 first-person shooter Shadowrun. Spencer painted that effort as a learning experience.
“We didn’t have tremendous success with that, but we learnt a lot from it,” he said.
More recent examples have fared better, including 17-Bit’s Skulls of the Shogun and the Windows 8-Windows Phone release Halo: Spartan Assault, which loosely ties into the Xbox 360 shooter Halo 4.
“This connected ecosystem across all the different devices is definitely where I think the future of gaming is going; you don’t have to do it as a developer, but you have the capability and I think a system like Xbox Live across all those screens where you know who someone is and who their friends are, what their Achievements are and their progression is really critical to that,” said Spencer.
The Xbox One releases on November 22.
Source: Polygon
