Games on the Play store can be played on Windows PC! I'm sorry from 2022!

　Google announced that from 2022, games in the Google Play store, its Android smartphone application delivery platform, will also be available on Windows computers.

　Google said in a statement to TheVerge that from 2022, users will be able to experience their favorite Google Play games on more devices. Greg Hartrell, Google's product director, believes that "games can be played seamlessly on smartphone tablets Chromebook and Windows PC", even between different operating systems, and subsequent games can be played on Windows PC after playing games on smartphones.

　The Windows application is not a game flow service running in the cloud, but an application that runs locally on the Windows. This allows you to play games with lower latency and fluency, although the performance of PC will be different. The supported operating system is Windows10 or Windows11.

　In addition, the Windows applications that Google is scheduled to provide do not depend on "Windows Subsystem for Android" and "Amazon AppStore", the new features in Windows 11 that can run Android applications, but are always services developed by Google alone.

"Windows Subsystem for Android" of Windows 11

　Recently, cross-platform development is under way to enable developers to provide the same user experience on each operating system. Among them, iOS applications can be run on Mac equipped with M1 chips, "Windows Subsystem for Linux" that can run Linux locally on Windows and "Windows Subsystem for Android" that can run Android applications can be provided. OS and system providers are also accelerating the provision of systems that can run programs for other OS in their own OS.

　This move not only reduces the burden on developers, but also enables users to use services on any device, which is of great benefit to both.

　I'm really looking forward to announcing in detail how it works.