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Microsoft Now Lets You Stream PC Games To an Xbox One and Use a Controller (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Microsoft is now letting Xbox One owners stream their PC games to the console and use a controller to play them. From a report: A newly updated app, Wireless Display app, from Microsoft enables the support so you can play Steam games or other titles directly on an Xbox One. You can use a regular Xbox controller to control the remote PC, enabling game play or even the ability to use an Xbox for presentations. Microsoft's Wireless Display app uses Miracast to create a connection between a PC and the Xbox One, and you can cast to the Xbox using the winkey + P combination. There are different latency modes for gaming and watching videos from a remote PC, and the app is ideal if you want to project a stream or video onto the Xbox. You won't be able to stream protected content like Netflix, though.

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  1. I don't know what to say... by Kokuyo · · Score: 2

    ...except why?

    Few people have a TV that is really good for gaming in the first place and you can use Xbox controllers on a PC.

    What is this good for?

    As for streaming content, how about allowing a Plex and Kodi app to run directly on the xbox?

    Perhaps I'm missing something but this seems to solving an issue I have trouble imagining many people to actually have.

    1. Re:I don't know what to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not only that, but it's the wrong direction. KB+M is vastly better for virtually every genre of game except maybe platformers. Put a KB+M player up against a similarly skilled controller player in a FPS, and unless you give the controller guy aim assist in the game, he's gonna get destroyed.

      You want to use a KB+M on most games, not a damned controller, unless you want to suck or depend on "auto-aim" where the game does the aiming for you. And if you give that auto-aim to the KB+M player too, he'll still school you.

      It's almost like there are other games out there that aren't PvP... Some of us like playing PC games, but would like to play them in the room where the big TV is when the computer isn't... It's not a hard fucking concept to get and people like you are grasping at straws over something YOU DONT HAVE TO USE.

  2. Re: I just don't get it by tysonedwards · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, some people live in houses, and have their computers set up in offices in another room from their living room. And sometimes those people with houses also like to play games in their living room. And sometimes they would like to play a game in their bedroom. And punching holes in walls to run a hundred feet of HDMI cables, including sometimes breaking out a drill to go through studs is... Difficult. So, having something like Steam Link or this MS branded miracast app makes things easier for someone who would otherwise need to buy three computers so they can play games how they'd want.

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  3. Re:I just don't get it by DrSpock11 · · Score: 2

    I don't get what's so hard to understand. You own game X on PC. Let's say you bought it on PC because the graphics are better and the options are better. You want to play said game on your couch occasionally. You don't want to run new wiring through your house.

    Or an even better use case- you have emulators on PC (which are banned on the XBox Store), and you want to play them in the living room like they were designed for.

  4. Just tried it - too slow for gaming by prentiz · · Score: 2

    I've just downloaded the app on my xbox and given it a go - it was really quite slow, display-wise, much too slow for any real gaming. It worked usefully to connect the xbox controller to my laptop, and I guess it would be handy maybe for watching movies or doing presentations, but not gaming.