Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft gaming division, announced that the company intends to bring together video game consoles Xbox One with Windows 10 to create a unified gaming platform. Information published on the website The Guardian.

According to Spencer, the company will create a universal platform - Universal Windows Platform, - which allow you to run video games on personal computers, Xbox, tablets and smartphones. Xbox will no longer follow the principle that the hardware brackets should not change over the years, and is only updated with the release of new generations of consoles.

Xbox One, so there will be more similar to a personal computer, since Microsoft will from time to time to release for consoles more powerful processors and graphics cards. This will solve the problem of backward compatibility, that is, the new hardware will be possible to play old games that the Xbox One will distinguish from the nearest competitor PlayStation 4, which are not available for many games with the PlayStation 3. Also, Microsoft assured that the union Xbox and Windows It will give the company the opportunity to release more new games than ever before.

Earlier, in January 2015 year, Microsoft announced that video games on the Xbox will also be available for Windows users 10. In November, the company released an update for the One Xbox, making it compatible with Windows 10.