Windows gaming might soon be arriving on Xiaomi tablets. The company has started taking in applicants who own the Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4 and have them test Windows games via HyperOS’ WinPlay engine. But this isn’t an online game streaming platform and lets you play the games without any internet connection. So here’s what we know so far.
Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4 Can Run Steam
There are plenty of services or devices that offer cloud gaming streaming access to users’ mobile devices. However, the Chinese tech giant is taking things a step further. It has announced that it is recruiting Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4 users from the Xiaomi Community to test the WinPlay engine in HyperOS that lets you play Windows games without an internet connection.
WinPlay basically allows the tablet to run Windows software directly. Xiaomi claims that WinPlay’s GPU performance loss is only 2.9 percent, which is quite impressive. But that’s not all, the company has even managed to get Steam running on this tablet that brings access to Valve’s vast gaming library. Keep in mind that simply installing Steam doesn’t let you play all of the games as not every title is supported yet. But this isn’t surprising considering how it isn’t a Windows laptop. To recall, even the Valve’s very own SteamOS has issues when running games from its own platform.
Known tipster Digital Chat Station (Via Fonearena) even shared an image of the tablet running Windows games locally based on the WinPlay engine with support for Xbox controllers. The Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4 was even seen running Tomb Raider. It remains to be seen how Xiaomi will expand this tech and whether these will be included on its smartphones as well. So stick around for more updates.
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