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Microsoft’s Bringing Xbox Live to Android and iOS
- Thread starter Theorry
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It was (at least an earlier implementation) but it wasn't open to developers outside of Microsoft.
I think they announced the announcement of it a couple months ago?
Yes, it's fascinating. Only a few years ago this seemed so unlikely, and now here we are, Microsoft will soon have Xbox Live, xCloud and Game Pass on tons of different ecosystems - all this without leaving the console business, as many
That doesn't really imply it isn't coming. MS are the ones who put up the blog post mentioning it. Maybe it just got pushed back?
Seriously, it's so strange with how they're pushing this open and platform agnostic approach to Xbox Live but insist on arbitrarily punishing only Xbox One owners who want to play online multiplayer on the same servers, on the same game, with the same account.
Interesting, it also lists Switch
Just imagine you can earn Gamerscore for The World Ends With You on Android/ioS despite the game never hitting Xbox natively. And as we learned recently, now you can stream PC games to Xbox One, too - so you can play Dragon Quest XI on Xbox One indirectly now, even if Steam has not integrated Live into non-MS games. In this sense, Xbox is trying to be all inclusive also to the benefit of their own game library, I think. Not sure how many companies will actually support this though.
And voilà, this way brings Xbox to many more customers than ever before. They'are all in for the long-term future with these moves.
And voilà, this way brings Xbox to many more customers than ever before. They'are all in for the long-term future with these moves.
Yeah, it's also leading a path Sony and Nintendo can follow if they are successful at it, as a consumer makes me happy with the direction they are taking.
PlayFab will now be part of Microsoft's cloud tools and Azure, allowing developers to spin up multiplayer servers for games with matchmaking, voice and chat services, and user-generated content.
This is interesting
This is interesting
It's advertising services like Visual Studio, GitHub and Azure for development. Those are already used to develop games on other platforms.
Microsoft wants to put their services everywhere. (people use azure for playstation games btw).
Nope, the site flips through different platforms
Look at it yourself
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games
Microsoft makes a number of tools and middleware that are used in game development across devices, including PS and Switch.
Havok, Visual Studio, Simplygon for example... github is even counted in there.
This isn't about 'XBL/gamepass/xcloud coming to XYZ' or whatever. They're talking about their full suite of developer tools, some of which of course are relevant to dev on any platform.
Not so much 'free' as replacing it with gamepass subs via opening up the service to as many platforms as possible. I don't see how charging console owners for access to xbox live gold will be viable in a few years, when the potential to be console-agnostic and hook consumers into their ecosystem by any means has much greater long term potential IMO. MS has a much better chance of having me as a long term customer if I can access the full breadth of their content without need for *another* closed box under my TV.
I doubt we ever see Live on PS. Devs will use MS tools/services like Havok or Azure but probably nothing related directly to XBL.
It begins.
It just flicks through them (and other things) on the page.
Probably never. I can't imagine Sony would allow anything Xbox unless MS leaves the hardware business/truly goes 3rd party.