The rumours are mostly thanks to Microsoft’s own efforts. The Xbox One is practically a PC custom-fitted for a dedicated gaming.. Windows 10 running on the Xbox One could bring desktop apps to the console and Microsoft has been pushing games to use API and technologies like DirectX 12 and Windows 10 APIs that bridge the two worlds.

The talk hotted up this week when Quantum Break was put onto the PC and had to be pulled as a total mess. However now Microsoft’s Phil Spencer says that the strategy is not to unify the two things.

Talking to PC Gamer  Spencer said that Microsoft's goal is to let games run everywhere. To do that it does not mean that you need Windows 10 on the Xbox or anything like that.

He sees the issue as there being some games which need a keyboard and some that need a controller and it will always be like that.

“Ashes of the Singularity, a fast-paced RTS game—probably not the best controller game, and I want to make sure those games are great. What I want to make sure is that gamers on our platforms, you feel like you have access to as many games as you can, and as a developer you feel like you have the tools and service to reach as many gamers as you can,” he said.

 

“You could kind of get into scenarios where the hardware specs kind of overlap, probably at the fundamental level, or the hardware capabilities overlap enough where the differentiation kind of blurs. But the console experience is a dedicated gaming hardware device that is very appliance-like, instant on, ability to basically do one thing, which is play games, very well. PC is a multi-purpose device."

He liked the way people play games on their PC and you see people games on Windows 10 already. But it also can do Outlook and load Photoshop and browse the web. He thinks there will be fundamental hardware differences between console and PC gaming. Spencer said he wants to embrace those differences, not try to get rid of them.