The Xbox team launched Rog Xbox Ally and Rog Xbox Ally X this year. They can run all games in the digital store, but Microsoft's gaming department itself emphasizes that these two devices belong to the Xbox ecosystem and allow players to continue playing games that have been previously opened on the console.
However, there is one thing to note: to implement this function, the relevant game must be launched on the Xbox store for PC and support the "Xbox Play Anywhere" function, otherwise players will have to play through cloud gaming.
This year, Microsoft is actively promoting the "Xbox Games Play Anywhere" plan and paying attention to games released on the Xbox PC platform. However, the number of games on the Xbox PC platform has always been far less than that on the Steam or Epic Games platforms, especially in terms of large-scale projects. In addition, not all games released on the Xbox PC platform are supported by the "Xbox Games Play Anywhere" feature.
Well-known journalist Jez Corden published an article stating that Xbox faces a major task - "to push AAA game publishers to support Xbox-related features of 'Xbox Games Play Anywhere'" and generally push them to publish games in the Xbox ecosystem for PC. According to him, many publishers today simply don’t see the point in doing so:
"The developers I've spoken to have made it clear that they see no significant advantage in using native Xbox management tools on PC, let alone dual licensing distribution through Xbox Games Anywhere."
Microsoft must more actively promote the advantages of "Xbox games can be played anywhere" from the beginning, and even actively promote PC Xbox applications. If no real advantage exists, this issue must be addressed. Perhaps, for developers who support "Xbox games play anywhere", Microsoft should reduce the commission ratio or provide direct marketing support; perhaps, it also needs to improve developer tools to greatly simplify the process of basic operations such as publishing games on the PC Xbox application or the Xbox console itself.
It is worth mentioning that this year, a number of large-scale games have received support for the "Xbox Games Play Anywhere" function and have been launched on the PC Xbox application, such as "RoboCop: Violence City", "Strike" and "Final Fantasy 16". However, the number of such projects is still relatively small, and when many of these games are launched on the Xbox PC platform, they are already quite a while later than the release time of the Steam platform.