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Playing Xbox games on your TV may not require an Xbox at all soon. Xbox head Phil Spencer tells The Verge<\/a> that we may see a dedicated Xbox app for smart TVs by next year, one that could stream console games directly to screens using Microsoft\u2019s Project xCloud service.<\/p>\n

Speaking with The Verge, Spencer said, \u201cI think you\u2019re going to see [an Xbox app for smart TVs] in the next 12 months. I don\u2019t think anything is going to stop us from doing that. … What we used to call a TV was a CRT that\u2019s just throwing an image on the back of a piece of glass that I\u2019m looking at. Now, as you said, a TV is really more of a game console stuffed behind a screen that has an app platform and a Bluetooth stack and a streaming capability. Is it really a TV anymore, or is it just the form and function of the devices that we used to have around our TV, consolidated into the one big screen that I\u2019m looking at?\u201d<\/p>\n

Spencer added that \u201cthe amount of compute capability in my home has increased with the number of streaming signals that have come in, not decreased,\u201d concluding, \u201cI think gaming will be one of those things as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft\u2019s Project xCloud service streams select Xbox games to mobile phones and tablets. Currently, the game-streaming service is restricted to Google\u2019s Android platform, but a web-based version of xCloud streaming for iOS devices is also in the works. Project xCloud was recently added to the Ultimate tier of Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Game Pass<\/a> subscription service.<\/p>\n

As The Verge points out<\/a>, Spencer also recently hinted at another hardware option for game streaming on TVs: \u201cstreaming sticks,\u201d in the vein of Amazon\u2019s Fire TV Stick. \u201cYou could imagine us even having something that we just included in the Game Pass subscription that gave you an ability to stream xCloud games to your television and buying the controller,\u201d Spencer told Stratechery<\/a> in an interview in late October.<\/p>\n

For more, read (or listen to) The Verge\u2019s interview with Phil Spencer<\/a> for its Decoder podcast. <\/p>\n

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Playing Xbox games on your TV may not require an Xbox at all soon. Xbox head Phil Spencer tells The Verge that we may see a dedicated Xbox app for smart TVs by next year, one that could stream console games directly to screens using Microsoft\u2019s Project xCloud service. Speaking with The Verge, Spencer said, \u201cI think you\u2019re going to see [an Xbox app for smart TVs] in the next 12 months. I don\u2019t think anything is going to stop us from doing that. … What we used to call a TV was a CRT that\u2019s just throwing an image on the back of a piece of glass that I\u2019m looking at. Now, as you said, a TV is really more of a game console…<\/p>\n

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