For compatibility, they've said that it would be for games throughout the generation, not into infinity. It's a hail mary because XBox has always been to get MS in the living room and that's not as appealing as it once was, so now it's another trojan horse for Windows 10. Theoretically, XB1 going forward will work with any universal windows app from the store within the spec and I honestly think thats the only way the XBox team could get support within MS.
The idea of them having a Windows 10 PC under a lot of TVs is probably appealing, then have the most powerful hardware console available on top. I'm betting that if there is another XBox next generation, it'll be a pure Windows box with controller support built in.
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