Does Xbox intend to distribute its mobile games through its own platform, to the detriment of the official AppStore and PlayStore?
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This is what certain details discovered in the documents provided by Microsoft to the British competition office suggest, as part of its proposed acquisition of the publisher/developer Activision Blizzard. Microsoft explains that one of its motivations for this takeover is to build a video game presence on mobile. “Xbox will seek to resize the Xbox Store for mobile, to attract new players to a new Xbox Mobile platform,†the document mentions. The interest for Microsoft is not to donate a percentage of its earnings to a third party service.
Android yes, iOS no…
If launching such a platform on Android devices will not be a problem - others have already done so - it will however not be possible at Apple. On iPhone and iPad, Microsoft will have to go through a web application, as the company has already done with its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate service.
