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Xbox's Phil Spencer Says Halo 6 Likely Coming To PC

Xbox head Phil Spencer says that isn’t the case, though, and that the company had a good reason for not porting Halo 5 to PC. His explanation also gives hope to seeing Halo 6 released on PC alongside the Xbox version, possibly even at the same time as part of Microsoft’s new “Play Anywhere” initiative. Speaking with PC Gamer at E3, Spencer confirmed that there weren’t any ideological reasons for confining the Halo series to the Xbox console. He admits that while there are differences in the console and PC experiences, there was nothing inherent in Halo 5 or its gameplay that wouldn’t work on both Windows PCs and Xbox consoles: “The reason somebody wants to go buy an Xbox—or I’ll just say a game console, yes I’d love if they bought an Xbox—is they want to sit 10 feet from their television screen with a controller in their lap looking at a television playing a videogame. It’s a different experience from playing on PC. Halo 6 will be a “Play Anywhere” game, which means players will be able to not only buy it on Windows 10 but will also be able to switch back and forth between the Xbox and Windows versions without losing their progress.