Xbox flings open the door to competitive play with PC, PlayStation
Xbox developers now (or soon will — as of yet, it's not clear) have the ability to support cross-network play in their games. That means Xbox players can clash with PC or even PlayStation/Nintendo players in the multiplayer games built to support it.
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It's a big development for a gaming community that has long been populated by people with stated allegiances to one platform over the others. With limited exceptions, competitive play has never been possible between PC and console players or Xbox and PlayStation players.
"[I]n addition to natively supporting cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 games that use Xbox Live, we’re enabling developers to support cross-network play as well," ID@Xbox Director Chris Charla writes on Xbox Wire.

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