Microsoft wants to stream PC games to Xbox One

We already knew about their plans for streaming Xbox games on PC.

In an interview with The Verge, Xbox head honcho Phil Spencer has revealed that Microsoft is working on a way to stream PC games to your Xbox One. The other way around is already possible with Windows 10, but to play PC on Xbox One is a little more challenging:

"We understand if you're going to go PC to Xbox, we need to get keyboard and mouse working completely so you could play those games. In terms of where we want to go with our platform, those are absolutely in scope of things that we want to do."

The reason for the extra difficulty is encoding games and having the right amount of bandwidth to stream them to the Xbox One. Spencer says that it's a challenge they're relishing:

"It's actually a little more challenging doing the encoding on the PC side to the Xbox, but challenge is good."

This would of course mean that you could play a lot of dedicated PC games on your Xbox One, not to mention a console-exclusive game like Street Fighter V. With that in mind, no wonder Microsoft wants to make this a reality.