Can Halo Wars 2 work on Xbox and PC at the same time?

With the release of Halo Wars in 2009, Ensemble Studios managed to do something few had done before: create a real-time strategy game that felt at home on a console. The genre, popularized by titles like StarCraft and Ensemble’s own Age of Empires, had long been a stalwart of the PC gaming space. The fast pace and constant micromanagement inherent to RTS games made them ideal for playing with a mouse and keyboard. Halo Wars, meanwhile, managed to largely replicate the core of an RTS game,