The Xbox Ally is nearly here, but there’s a problem.
Over the past few years, Microsoft has been pushing its Xbox PC platform more and more, leveraging both data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-faq” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-faq”>PC Game Pass and OEM-built PC data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/gaming-laptops” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/gaming-laptops”>gaming laptops and handhelds to push the platform. Many Windows 11 OEMs bundle PC or data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-game-pass” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-game-pass”>Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with their devices these days, and the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/starting-this-week-the-xbox-pc-app-will-start-integrating-pc-stores” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/starting-this-week-the-xbox-pc-app-will-start-integrating-pc-stores”>Xbox PC app is preinstalled on almost all of these devices too.
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For Xbox console users, there’s often an added benefit thrown in. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-play-anywhere-just-crossed-a-massive-milestone” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-play-anywhere-just-crossed-a-massive-milestone”>Xbox Play Anywhere (also known as XPA…

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