Microsoft continues undeterred in its quest to blur the lines between its various platforms as far as gaming is concerned by launching the beta of Xbox Cloud Gaming on PC. By expanding Cloud Gaming to PC, players with the necessary accounts and subscriptions can stream Game Pass titles to any compatible device, removing most platform boundaries.
Xbox Cloud Gaming has already been stretching it wings with Project xCloud enabling users to stream Game Pass titles to Android tablets and mobile phones since last year, allowing players to take major AAA titles with them on the go so long as they have a sufficiently speedy data connection. Clearly, expansion is on Microsoft's agenda.
With the company already eliminating console exclusives from its gaming ecosystem by making all Xbox games playable on PC as well, this is the organic next step in the pursuit of achieving content equity across platforms.
The new beta will enable users to stream the games they can access via their Game Pass subscription to any PC running Windows 10. As the games are streamed from Microsoft's servers, users only need to worry about having a sufficient internet connection - if that's a given, then any hardware configuration will be able to run the games being streamed, no matter how much of a potato you're playing on.