Speaking at GDC 2016, Xbox product manager Jason Ronald revealed that Microsoft will begin opening its PC and gaming ecosystems to over the course of the year, with Windows 10 apps coming to the Xbox One in the summer. Microsoft will merge the Xbox Store and Windows Store, which will host apps that can be run on a smartphone, tablet, PC or console. This is part of Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform, or UWP.

Microsoft promises that UWP apps will "open up" in the coming months, in order "to run the more advanced graphics settings that PC gamers demand." This could mean, for example, that titles published on the Microsoft Store would eventually support SLI or CrossFire on NVIDIA or AMD graphics cards

Microsoft is expected to reveal more at its annual Build conference, in two weeks.