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[Gowans]

Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic. Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet (and beat) an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka (the green one) and Laylee (the bat) embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B! Yooka-Laylee will soon support Xbox Play Anywhere, meaning one purchase gets you this great game on both Xbox One and Windows 10 when available.

Source: http://news.xbox.com/2017/04/08/next-week-on-xbox-april-10-16/

Edit: No it won't

 

[Visualante2]

Looking forward to weekly 9GB patches.

 

[Falchion]

Awesome, looks like I'm going to get this on Xbox then.

 

[Defect]

Glad more games are doing this.

 

[jesu]

Cool, I might try running it on my PC.
Will probably properly look like a game from the 90's then.

 

[Knuckle Sandwich]

Cool. Hope more third parties sign on for it.

 

[FZW]

this is great... i love cross buy!

 

[SunBroDave]

They're releasing a UWP version?

 

[rrs]

They're releasing a UWP version?

Yeah, also comes with the bonus of being ready for Scorpio

 

[nephilimdj]

Well there goes buying it on steam, will get it for MS

 

[Salty Rice]

Nah still gonna get it on PS4 and later on Switch.

With Switch i gonna literally play anywhere.

 

[Gowans]

I was buying on Xbox anyway, but it's a great bonus for me as I can play in my office and it wishfully thinking all Play Anywhere games will get a easy unlock for 4K for Scorpio.

 

[Heretic]

I was buying on Xbox anyway, but it's a great bonus for me as I can play in my office and it wishfully thinking all Play Anywhere games will get a easy unlock for 4K for Scorpio.

yup. pretty happy about this!

 

[Fess]

Yeah, also comes with the bonus of being ready for Scorpio

This is awesome. More devs need to do this.

 

[tuna_love]

Looking forward to weekly 9GB patches.

what do you mean

 

[Vash63]

Makes sense, it supports Steam Play on PC also. I can play it on my main Linux system, my Mac and my Windows secondary partition with the same license.

 

[LukasTaves]

Wait, so a game can be made play anywhere even after being launched?

Hope they update the games that are on both but aren't play anywhere.

 

[JaseC]

Wait, so a game can be made play anywhere even after being launched?

Hope they update the games that are on both but aren't play anywhere.

I wouldn't hold your breath. That's up to their respective publishers, not Microsoft.

 

[Shiggy]

Makes sense, it supports Steam Play on PC also. I can play it on my main Linux system, my Mac and my Windows secondary partition with the same license.

Don't you always get those versions (when available) for free when buying a PC game? On GOG and Humble that's the case.

 

[JaseC]

Don't you always get those versions (when available) for free when buying a PC game? On GOG and Humble that's the case.

It's up to the publisher, technically, but the only exception to the rule on Steam is Black Ops (and also Individual Software's stuff).

 

[SporeCrawler]

how does this feature work? is it a streaming thing? or cross save/cross buy

 

[JaseC]

how does this feature work? is it a streaming thing? or cross save/cross buy

The latter. Think SteamPlay.

 

[Synth]

how does this feature work? is it a streaming thing? or cross save/cross buy

The latter.

 

[Jessie.Bristol]

It's nice that more games are doing this. Hopefully the trend continues and more devs and publishers get on board.

 

[Dunkley]

Yeah prolly gonna get Yooka Laylee that way. I mean I love Steam but being able to play this on the Xbox One too with no extra fee is huge.

 

[EvB]

Yeah prolly gonna get Yooka Laylee that way. I mean I love Steam but being able to play this on the Xbox One too with no extra fee is huge.

But Steaaaaam

 

[Gowans]

Looks like there is a mistake

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...ort-play-anywhere-on-xbox-one-windows-10.aspx

 

[Majine]

Wow, Xbox Wire fucked up.

Editor's Note: We updated the entry for Yooka-Laylee to reflect that the Windows 10 version is coming soon. The title will not support Xbox Play Anywhere. Apologies for any confusion this may have caused.
Read more at http://news.xbox.com/2017/04/08/next-week-on-xbox-april-10-16/#rzua2TzKiazwpW58.99

 

[jediyoshi]

Wow, Xbox Wire fucked up.

WOOF. Hate the use of the word 'confusion' there. They were literally wrong about it, no more amount of clarity would have made the reader realize the opposite result.

 

[pieface]

Whoops

 

[Zedox]

Big fuck up Xbox Wire. I do wonder why they aren't supporting XPA though. That sucks.

 

[Rocketz]

Christ

 

[Nzyme32]

Big fuck up Xbox Wire. I do wonder why they aren't supporting XPA though. That sucks.

W10 version got delayed, so that might be it. Could be a recent thing?

 

[Zedox]

W10 version got delayed, so that might be it. Could be a recent thing?

Even with a delay u can still support it when the Win10 ver. releases. Just a fuck up.

 

[Dunkley]

But Steaaaaam

That is true. I won't be able to get around buying it on Steam even if the W10S version did support XPA.

 

[LukasTaves]

I wouldn't hold your breath. That's up to their respective publishers, not Microsoft.

But it was mostly MS titles I was thinking, QB, Gears ultimate, etc.


Edit: what? How can they mess this up?

 

[Nzyme32]

Even with a delay u can still support it when the Win10 ver. releases. Just a fuck up.

Oh, so they won't do it at all - in that case I got it wrong. I assumed they just add it later

 

[PackAPunchedMick]

They ain't even supporting the PS4 Pro....(how did they get around Sony's mandate?)

I'm not surprised play-anywhere isn't included.

 

[styl3s]

They ain't even supporting the PS4 Pro....(how did they get around Sony's mandate?)

I'm not surprised play-anywhere isn't included.

As i understand it that was just a "leaked" imagine and was never put out in a FAQ/Press release. Their official FAQ says

Following PS4 Pro's launch on November 10 in North America, virtually all new PS4 game releases moving forward will be able to take advantage of PS4 Pro capabilities on day one, or in some cases shortly after launch via a downloadable update.

There's no way you can force devs to make everything take advantage because that money and time a lot of developers don't have or want to invest in like indie devs or kickstarted games.