Microsoft confirms the removal of "side by side" mode on Xbox One
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Giuseppe Genga / Neural
P 25 gen 2017 17:39
Now comes confirmation from Microsoft, which through a Tweet from Mike Ybarra explains that, in order to improve operating system performance, this mode has been removed and will be replaced with a new system of displaying overlapping Windows to running games.
There are therefore still app that can show us the information or videos while you play, but instead of being side by side to the game screen you will cover a part, as a kind of system " picture in picture ". An example of this can be seen already in the new update with the Cortana or tracing goals.
We give them our farewell to the system of "snap", waiting to see if the new mode will actually performance benefits to the OS.