Xbox app on Windows 10 is being reworked to target PC gamers

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Microsoft had one of its strongest E3 briefings in years on Sunday, but that was only a precursor to the actual show. With E3 in full swing, Xbox head Phil Spencer has been busy with interviews and Q&As. During a panel for E3 Coliseum, Spencer was asked by an audience member what the team is doing to fix the quality of life for game management and the Xbox app on Windows 10.

“I’d say our early work in… Xbox Live stuff for Windows was well intentioned, but anybody that’s a PC gamer (I play a lot of PC games myself) saw this kind of imposter console work coming over,” said Spencer. “You’ve probably seen us slow down on some of the progress we’ve made on some of our apps, and some other things because we’re reworking how we’re thinking about the PC audience to try to be more reflective of the PC community that’s out there instead of trying to pull people into the things that come from the console space.”


Changes may not happen this instant, but “the long-term goal is for us to be much more native in the PC gaming environment, as opposed to this thing that feels slightly different than what PC gamers are looking for.”



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NickPosted:

I rarely see anyone use the xbox app in the first place. This is kind of useless.

Miko537Posted:

I never see anyone use it. I've tried to use it once but for some weird reason took up so much of my ram. I stopped using it since.

SaxbyyPosted:

The store and app need to be one in the same, you have to traverse the two trying to find what you want, and they try their absolute hardest to not let you mod the files by hiding them away.

322Posted:

The xbox app and store are really the only reason from stopping me from using them. I got forza but the xbox app is just so poorly made and not to mention you have to spend 10 mins trying to find where your games are saved because they lock the files. I like being able to talk to people on xbox but the store and app is so poorly conceived and im sure the people who made it never actually use it.

extrememasters1Posted:

Fun fact xbox party chat on the app and the console has a 2.6 second delay between mics

XeCookiePosted:

Great news, feel like we are getting closer to cross platform gameplay between Xbox and PC now we just need Sony to be more open.