Can cows please explain how..

.. this is a bad thing:

I'm heading out of town for work and thanks to Xbox Play Anywhere, I already own several games for my new laptop and I'll be able to continue my Xbox gaming while away from home (complete with cloud saves and full Xbox Live support)..

And as time goes on, my Xbox Play Anywhere gaming library will continue to grow and live across both my console and my PCs..

Can cows please explain to me how this concept of "Xbox as a service" is a bad deal for Xbox gamers, the Xbox brand, and the Microsoft Xbox division?..

the "lolz teh Xbone has no exclusives!1!!" chatter has no basis beyond fanboy wars.. In the real world, Xbox Play Anywhere is a great deal for all parties concerned..

When you don't use your brain, some of the most obvious things are beyond comprehension. So, forgive them for they know not how to think for themselves.

You win worst formatting of the year sir.

Yeah, posting pics and text on GS is harder than it should be.

Edit: Ok, nice clean up lol.

As for the topic itself? Prepare for antiquated reasoning that only ever made sense in SW anyways.

It's not. But games "don't count" here if they exist on more than one device or something. Personally, I think it's a great thing

@ConanTheStoner: lol yep, I had to go back and try to fix it a little bit

You're asking PlayStation fanboys for too much.

The best you'll get is a continuous spamming of gifs.

Your laptop can run the menu of the mentioned titles. Bravo.

PS fans are going to be rekt when they read this thread.

Same thing I was thinking lol.

It's a cool feature but I don't think it's gonna be used by many people .

Most Xbox owners either don't have a loptop or PC capable of playing modern games. Most console owners in general in fact .

As for the situation you are describing , it's cool that you can continue playing your game away from home it really is. For me personally when I travel I like to take it as an opportunity to play my game boy advance lol.

This laptop seems way too weak to be able to run these games adequately.

@Antwan3K: Is that a Surface Book...with performance base? ^_^

I think it is a great deal, I mean Sony is adopting the same strategy are they not? Trying to get Playstation Now onto PC's so how is it frowned upon by the cows? Not all cows are bad, but some tend to be act quite oblivious and arrogant and reply with the same old "TLHBO" and that tends to get annoying...lol. Again, lems can and I have seen them be just as bad, guess it's just a matter of something that isn't going to go away any time soon...

like...why would we care?

Let me put it another way, when you're here asking for validation of your preferred platform you're already subconsciously doubting it's value.

It's not that the xbox anywhere is a "bad thing" but there is nothing useful to if you own a gaming PC. I mean if you going to argue gaming on the go then hell you can do that with a laptop but you want and need to throw in xbox and somehow make that a "good" thing that it no longer has an exclusive library to set itself apart from other major gaming systems.

It's just not going to work out with most people who have options and you can argue about it not being a "bad thing" but the question then becomes what's "good" about owning xbox vs PC or another console with a varied quality exclusive line up that validates it's ownership?

More power to you if you love xbox and the no exclusives approach MS has taken this gen, I'm just not sure that's something that's going to make people jump for joy at the thought of owning that console vs any other options.

Runs just fine..

What's there to explain? They say they don't want BC and only want new games but praise every remaster if its exclusive. They said party chat on Xbox 360 wasn't a big deal until they got it and they acted like it was this incredible new feature. They vilified paid online until they had to pay for it. They praise their library more for games that have been promised and not released and then rip on the competition for the games their fans love that they've actually delivering on. As Jim Sterling wrote, Sony fanboys are by far the worse... that pretty much explains everything.

Its not, but you just shown us why XBox1 is redundant.

@Cobra_nVidia: Yep its the Surface Book with Performance Base.. I absolutely love it so far.. It'll mainly be used for productivity of course but being able to run Xbox Play Anywhere games is a welcome bonus :-)

Made a thread praising this move but yeah that is very much what its been all about in SW. Ps4 has no games, Xboxone has no exclusives anymore, and that overrated movie game is ruining the industry and so on.

@Antwan3K said:

@silversix_ said:

Your laptop can run the menu of the mentioned titles. Bravo.

Runs just fine..

Full screen picture. Bravo.

Please elaborate on how there is "nothing useful" about being to play these games on your gaming PC and, with that single purchase, you also own that same game on Xbox consoles.. How is there "nothing useful" about being able to start a game on your living room console and be able to continue your gameplay right where you left off from your PC in your office or on your laptop on the go?..

If you want to own a gaming PC and a PS4 console in addition to it for some measure of diversity from Sony first party games, that's a fair argument.. But surely you can concede that choosing to own a gaming PC and an Xbox One console in order to take advantage of the "buy once, play anywhere" nature of Xbox Play Anywhere is also a fair argument..

@silversix_ said:

@Antwan3K said:

@silversix_ said:

Your laptop can run the menu of the mentioned titles. Bravo.

Runs just fine..

Full screen picture. Bravo.

Here's gameplay captured directly from my laptop:

https://account.xbox.com/en-US/gameclip/c58d9987-ad81-4903-9220-520dbfdbdae5?gamertag=Antwan3k&scid=0b3a0100-9af4-4630-9ade-66ca138f999e

@Antwan3K said:

@silversix_ said:

@Antwan3K said:

@silversix_ said:

Your laptop can run the menu of the mentioned titles. Bravo.

Runs just fine..

Full screen picture. Bravo.

Here's gameplay captured directly from my laptop:

https://account.xbox.com/en-US/gameclip/c58d9987-ad81-4903-9220-520dbfdbdae5?gamertag=Antwan3k&scid=0b3a0100-9af4-4630-9ade-66ca138f999e

i don't trust you so i won't click on your link

Don't expect logic from cows around these parts.

Yea, in the same sense that owning more than one television in your home is redundant.

How many games will realistically be XPA? Not many. It is a cool feature just like Cross Play but not all games will be good.

@silversix_ said:

@Antwan3K said:

@silversix_ said:

@Antwan3K said:

@silversix_ said:

Your laptop can run the menu of the mentioned titles. Bravo.

Runs just fine..

Full screen picture. Bravo.

Here's gameplay captured directly from my laptop:

https://account.xbox.com/en-US/gameclip/c58d9987-ad81-4903-9220-520dbfdbdae5?gamertag=Antwan3k&scid=0b3a0100-9af4-4630-9ade-66ca138f999e

i don't trust you so i won't click on your link

I clicked on it, it's all good, the gameplay looks great, very smooth, I love Xbox play anywhere and this right here is the reason.

Xbox Play Anywhere is one of the best moves this gen, and i'll stand by that. Exclusives -- whilst still important -- have nowhere near the pull that they had. Online play is huge, and the digital playground is becoming more and more important.

Probably all MS published/developed franchises, with a heavier push being put on third-parties. It will start slow for third-parties, but build momentum if MS really improve the Windows Store, or open up to Steam.

MS made a solid move with this... It's not without it's downfalls (same with anything) but it's a stellar idea.

It's looking like just about all Microsoft 1st party games will be XPA moving forward and there's already quite a few 3rd party games like Cuphead, Everspace, ARK: Survival Evolved, Scalebound, We Happy Few, and more that have been announced as XPA..

You're wasting your time with him, you're only going to get this kind of response from people like him...

How you liking Gears 4? I just got it from the Dell Black Friday deal, and haven't popped it in yet, been playing Horizon III, the demo that is...lol. Finally got some days off this week to be able to catch up and play games...

I would never have use of a feature like that as most of my journeys are short but if I were traveling long distance I'd rather have a nap.

@kinky-unikorn: Great game. Story is fairly decent, but the return of Marcus is probably the driving factor. Given that, the new characters are fairly good, if not rough around the edges.

I've yet to dive into MP, but i've heard Horde 3.0 is excellent.

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Played on PC BTW, and the performance has been great on a 970/i5 4690k (no overclock).

The real question is why not do the same with a desktop PC and a laptop like people have been doing since... forever... ? Lol @ lems thinking MS invented playing games in different devices, just shows how delusional and out of touch with reality they have become. If anything MS is making it harder to go truly crossplay by monopolizing the games inside their own services and operating system like some devs already figured out (http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/4/11159584/tim-sweeney-windows-10-monopoly-interview). But anyways, for doing what you did no one needs a xbone and that's the core of the issue of why the xbone is ultimately... irrelevant. TLHBO.

@Antwan3K what are the specs on that thing? Just curious.

@kinky-unikorn: Gears 4 is awesome in my opinion.. great campaign, co-op, horde mode, and competitive multiplayer.. it's an awesome package

@silversix_ said:

@Antwan3K said:

@silversix_ said:

@Antwan3K said:

@silversix_ said:

Your laptop can run the menu of the mentioned titles. Bravo.

Runs just fine..

Full screen picture. Bravo.

Here's gameplay captured directly from my laptop:

https://account.xbox.com/en-US/gameclip/c58d9987-ad81-4903-9220-520dbfdbdae5?gamertag=Antwan3k&scid=0b3a0100-9af4-4630-9ade-66ca138f999e

i don't trust you so i won't click on your link

I like your style. Very subtle...lol

@Antwan3K: Installing the game now as we speak :)

Nope this is not true. nope nope nope.

lol at referencing Tim Sweeney.. that actually just shows how delusional and out of touch with reality you are.. Sweeney's comments have already been debunked multiple times already, including comments from Phil Spencer himself..

as far as gaming from across a desktop and a laptop, that's great.. true, that's lasted forever.. But gaming seamlessly across console and PC with a single purchase and full Xbox Live integration?.. Nope, that just became mainstream with Xbox Play Anywhere.. and as primarily a console gamer and a fan of the Xbox Live service, this is an awesome feature..

the version I have has 512GB storage, 6th Gen Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 2GB GDDR5, 16GB RAM.. This is by no means a gaming laptop and I didn't primarily buy it for the purpose of gaming.. But it does run the games that I have just fine. So far I have Gears of War 4, Forza Horizon 3, Recore, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Shadow Complex Remastered, and few others..

Debunked how? Has MS confirmed that their games are going to be open to other stores like Steam?

And only lems care that this thing can be done between the xbone and a pc. In the real world most people don't do that and, if they do, having a desktop and laptop is just as good or even better since they wouldn't have to restrict themselves to the xbox store which is crap. In fact using something like GOG will be much more ideal since it is DRM free and, therefore, is not even attached to a PC having a particular middleware like Steam or even a particular operating system since you could move from Windows to Linux to Mac which is the true real cross platform way. I play some GOG games on my PC at home or at the University or even if I'm on a borrowed computer where there's no Steam installed and I can continue playing anywhere and I don't need a xbone or even the crappy windows store for that.

Or ok, if you're going to restrict yourself to a particular platform or software all the same, then Nintendo's solution is much better since it just uses the same device for porting the game to other places. That has the potential to have a much bigger impact than what MS proposed.

I'm sorry Antlem but TLHBO all the same and the xbone is still irrelevant to anyone other than lems.

Save yourself $60 a year by connecting an HDMi cord from your laptop to your TV.

Sell your XBox and buy even more games.

Face it. Whatever string of bullshit you come up with as to why any rational gamer would not or should not do as I suggest is precisely the rift between you as a gamer and your fanboyism for a plastic doohicky called "Xbox".

Pretty much. TLHBO

I'm setting my watch to the chain of expletives I will get in response as to what reason anyone calling themselves a "true gamer" would have for not wanting all their Windows Store games and Steam on one unified platform as opposed to trying to sell us on the XBox day in and day out like a used car salesman. They have a picture of the magic wand of gaming, but a $300 plastic box and $60 year annual fee makes him say "I don't wanna."

But remember folks. Anyone who mentions this. . . THOSE fuckers are the fanboys. Gamers like me are the problem.

What is this feature? I already own Forza Horizon 3, I know I can actually download it and play it on my PC but can I stream it from my Xbox to my tablet? I'm confused.

How well does it run Gears? I have laptop with similar specs and it'd be cool to play it when I travel.