I'm very interested in seeing where this app leads them. I think it's awesome they're trying to become more than a console manufacturer and using their money to really grow.
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Microsoft’s Bringing Xbox Live to Android and iOS
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Their tools are multi platform and focused on supporting many at once.
This is basically saying. Use our tools and we will make it easier to create games even for other platforms (and just so happens that the games are very easy to port to our platforms as well :P)
They should have totally have bought Epic late last gen and had UE4 integrated with all this thought.
Probably never. Xbox wants to be the service that people use. Playstation has their own services they want their customers to use. Playstation makes a lot of revenue from PSN, so allowing a competitor's service to be on their platform is probably the opposite of what they want. Sony wants people in the Playstation ecosystem, not the Xbox ecosystem.
I'm pretty sure Wordament was the only app with achievements on iOS.
other Microsoft games like Solitaire and Minecraft have Live stuff too.
Considering they give away games every month with Gold, that isn't feasible if they're giving Gold away free. It would also need to be a long term rollout of a change, so those that had prepaid years ahead were not getting screwed. Unless they credited back the dollar value of time remaining. Or at least gave that many months of Game Pass for free.
yeah you're right, I guess that was just the only one for a long time (or only one that was free)
Wordament
Wordament Snap Attack
Halo Spartan Assault
Halo Startan Strike
Minecraft
Age of Empires Castle Siege
Not that many.
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Yep. As does Minecraft for mobile on both Android and iOS. It's used similar into Uplay for Ubi titles on consoles.
I didn't say anything about giving away gold for free. If I were an Xbox console player now my question to MS would be 'why do I need to pay $60 to play Halo/Forza/Gears online when PC owners pay nothing?' I can't see that continuing to be a reality down the line with them going all-in on integrating the platforms. Morphing GOLD into GAMEPASS allows parity across the board in terms of all their customers paying into their ecosystem (console, PC and soon to be mobile by the looks of it). Paying for basic online play ( for console owners) will give way to encouraging people to pay for a game service accessible across a spectrum of devices. Or maybe online play will be rolled into Gamepass in one, all-encompassing service. Greater minds at Microsoft can work out those logistics. I haven't bought xbox live in 5 years, but as a mostly PC gamer now I'd pay for that.
As you said it's not something that needs to be a flick of the switch, but a plan to be unveiled over time with contingencies for people who have prepaid their subs a few years in advance. It can't be that difficult to give console GOLD subbers the option for pro-rated credit to their account to be used in whatever way the end-user wants( games, gamepass, etc), as the money is already MS' at that point.
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No Switch mention, but Microsoft's plans were leaked with Switch in tow. Maybe Nintendo got some last-minute cold feet?
He's no longer 1st. He's close to losing 2nd, actually, and probably will within the next few months. Looks like he slowed down since hitting 2M, probably because those two were biting at his heels and he was going to lose it anyway.
Can't wait for the next gen Xbox. It feels like they are going to get everything right this time.
Don't confuse "Xbox Live" with "Xbox Live Gold."
The first is an all-encompassing set of network services, offered free of charge to gamers and developers on a variety of platforms.
The second is a premium-tier level of service that offers online multiplayer on the Xbox hardware platform, along with some other perks (Games With Gold, discounts, etc.). The revenues from the second help to pay for the first.
This news has nothing to do with Xbox Live Gold.
If they keep that approach they'll lose even more markets hare in terms of consoles sold.
besides the games of the month, xbox live on pc and mobile have the same features. it absolutely should be free. keep a sub for your 5 games a month if you want. but online multiplayer should not be an additional cost.
I might be missing something, but what's the big deal? At first I thought this meant we would be getting all of those games trapped on Windows Phones. But this is just the app? Can't say I've ever really wanted to message a friend on Xbox in the middle of the day. Or look at my Achievements.
its dev tools. more games will support live and its services. the xbox app has been on mobile for years btw.
Aahhh, gotchya. Thanks. So this means developers can start releasing Android games with Achievements?
I think something happened at the table and talks broke down. It could still happen and they're still probably doing something with Nintendo, just not this and not anytime soon.
They would be throwing away a fuckton of easy money by making xbox live free.
Great news. Hopefully this is a small step towards a consolé agnostic future. Consoles should ho the way of the dodo
I mean that's great and all for shareholders, but too bad it's not an actual reason as to why they should keep it. Microsoft has stopped giving out actual Gold sub numbers in favor of using MAU three years ago. Giving the tanking console sales in their strongest market, do you think that they're gaining or losing active subs? To me there's a reason that they're pushing Game Pass so hard and want to make it available on other devices besides the Xbox One.
You've been able to party chat from the Xbox app for months if not years
It's an integrated platform for developers ffs, it's amazing in its own way, but nothing to Xbox on Switch, Playstation, or whatever.