Though it’s not something Microsoft has any official plans for yet, the company has again said that PC-to-Xbox One game streaming is something it hopes to introduce someday. If PC-to-Xbox One streaming does ever come to fruition, it would require keyboard and mouse support on Xbox One, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in a new interview.
“In terms of where we want to go with our platform, those are absolutely in scope of things that we want to do,” the Head of Xbox told The Verge.
With Windows 10’s launch today, July 29, streaming from Xbox One to PC is now available. Spencer said this approach is much more predictable “because we know exactly what you have.” Streaming from PC to Xbox One, on the other hand, presents its own set of challenges.
“It’s actually a little more challenging doing the encoding on the PC side to the Xbox, but challenge is good,” Spencer said.
He did not provide a timetable, or even an estimate of a timetable, for when PC-to-Xbox One streaming may become available. But clearly, Microsoft is interested in this space.
Back in January, Spencer said PC-to-Xbox One streaming is something that Microsoft was “really looking at.”
“People ask about the streaming in the opposite direction–can I stream from my PC to my Xbox?–and I’ll just say it’s something that we’re really looking at,” Spencer said at the time. “If you think about that vision–my games are my games wherever I am, and I can play with whoever I want to play with–we want to be able to land solutions that are as native as the one we showed there. We just have to kind of work with the physics of time and work it through.”
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