Nintendo is bringing one of its exclusive games to PC claims Microsoft website
A listing for a Nintendo first party game has appeared on Microsoft's Edge Game Assist webpage and it's either a mistake or the biggest news in gaming for a decade.
Although Sony has finally embraced the PC market it seems impossible to imagine that any Nintendo-made game would ever appear on a modern PC, especially given some of the failed experiments in the 90s, with titles like Mario's Game Gallery.
The question must certainly have come up, amongst Nintendo's execs, and you can guarantee that Microsoft has encouraged them to release games on the format, but there's never been any outward sign that they've considered it… until now.
To be clear, this is almost certainly a mistake of some kind, but nevertheless, the recently re-released Xenoblade Chronicles X is currently listed as one of various ordinary PC games that are 'enhanced for Microsoft Edge Game Assist.'
We'll be honest, we've never heard of Edge Game Assist until now, and we imagine most other people haven't either, but according to Microsoft, 'for a selection of popular PC games' it highlights 'helpful resources whenever you open a new tab. Many popular PC games are already enhanced for Game Assist, with more on the way.'
While there is an infinitesimally small chance that Microsoft has convinced Nintendo to release games on PC, and that fact has been accidentally revealed early – ahead of the Xbox Games Showcase next Sunday – the much more likely explanation is that this is some kind of error.
Perhaps it's a disgruntled employee or intern but it's a very odd mistake to make for a human and yet seems like exactly the sort of error an AI would make.
Microsoft is obsessed with AI at the moment, in terms of both using it and selling it to others, and don't seem to care whether it does what it's supposed to or not – reportedly Xbox use it for language translations in Europe, even for things as important as the Xbox dashboard, and there are often very obvious mistakes.
Given how unpopular Xbox is on the Continent you might have thought they'd learn from that, but it seems not.
As it is, at time of writing, Xenoblade Chronicles X is still listed amongst the supported games. You can't see what kind of assistance is being offered though, as you have to start the game first… which doesn't exist on PC. More Trending
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition was released on Nintendo Switch this March, as the last major Wii U game to be ported to the format.
That means that all the Xenoblade Chronicles games are now available on Switch, following Nintendo's move to buy 100% of developer Monolith Soft – who they also use as a support studio for major games such as Zelda: Breath Of the Wild.
A new Xenoblade game is expected early on in the Switch 2's lifespan, and Monolith Soft is already working on a new role-playing game of some sort.
So, the chances of Microsoft teaming up with Nintendo to release Xenoblade, or any other exclusive, on PC seem miniscule. And mistakes like this are only likely to put Nintendo off the idea even more.
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