Xbox`s Phil Spencer: PC games will come to Xbox Game Pass cloud streaming
(Windows Phone Central)

Xbox Game Pass is growing. Today, Microsoft revealed that Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming on the web is entering a limited beta, bringing the service to iOS devices via browsers like Safari, and low-power PCs via Microsoft Edge and Chrrome. This is how Microsoft aims to circumvent Apple`s draconian and anti-competitive rules pertaining to the Apple app store, which blocks any form of competition to Apple`s mobile gaming monopoly. Right now, Xbox Game Pass for cloud features console games, built from the ground up on Xbox and then injected with touch controls that mimic a regular Xbox controller. The developer work is relatively trivial when compared with doing a full mobile port, which for some titles isn`t even possible due to the low power of mobile phones and lower-end PCs. One user on Twitter asked Xbox lead Phil Spencer if Microsoft`s cloud gaming efforts could one day incorporate the PC versions of games. Spencer effectively says `yes.` Yes, Azure helps. One of the reasons we p...