Xbox Live is coming to Android and iOS

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Xbox Live is coming to Android and iOS thanks to Azure and Game Stack developer tools.

Microsoft is bringing Xbox Live to Android and iOS allowing achievements, gamerscore, friend lists, and more to carry over.

Ahead of its GDC 2019 talk, Microsoft revealed Game Stack will pull all of its tools and services into one ecosystem. This includes Azure, DirectX, Havock, Xbox Live, and more.

According to the firm, the cloud plays “a critical role in Game Stack,” with Azure able to “deliver a great gaming experience” to players worldwide.

Microsoft is totally committed to the cloud, and its Project xCloud streaming technology will allow people to play Microsoft games “where they want, when they want, on any device they want.”



Basically, with Xbox Live becoming part Game Stack, the service’s cross-platform capabilities will expand. This is the first major step into bringing XBL to all devices. The company also wants Xbox Game Pass on every device possible, so this is a great start.

“While Azure is part of Game Stack, it’s important to call out that Game Stack is cloud, network, and device agnostic,” reads the announcement.

“And we’re not stopping here. We’re bringing PlayFab into the Azure family. This allows developers to launch and scale up multiplayer games by dynamically hosting servers with Azure cloud compute.”


PlayFab was started by PopCap and Uber Entertainment vets in 2014 and acquired by Microsoft in 2018. The tech offers studios back-end support for online titles and services. This includes friend lists, server hosting, leaderboards, in-app purchasing models and online storage.

The tech supports iOS, Android, PC, Web, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch. All game engines and clouds are also supported. Due to this wide range of support, developers will be able to add multiplayer matchmaking and chat services to all games on all devices.

Rumors from February state Xbox Game Pass is coming to Switch, allowing users to stream Xbox titles using a dedicated app. Considering PlayFab supports Switch, the rumor sounds rather plausible.

It’s possible Microsoft will announce Xbox Live and Xbox Game Pass support for Switch during its GDC talk. Or it could be saving the announcement for E3 2019. We’ll have to wait and see.

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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2019/03/14/xbox-live-ios-android-devices/

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MazePosted:

I wanna know exactly how this is gonna work, cause it just seems weird lmao

RyanPosted:

it will be interesting to see how this pans out

HiPosted:

It's all about money these days. Great move for them.

LoveFairyPosted:

This is pretty cool. About time it happened.

JasonPosted:

This is a really smart move, also another way for them to
Make even more money.

315Posted:

Two_Faced After reading the article I'm still not sure what this actually means. I don't really understand how this would work. What does Xbox Live do besides allow access to games that are capable of playing online, play online (multiplayer) how would this work? I download the Xbox Live app on my iOS then I can do what exactly? Use live messenger or party chat? Not like I can play a game off of game pass on mobile device that's not a mobile game.


There is already a app from Microsoft that is mobile which lets you join parties and send messages regardless if the device you are on. From my understanding of the article, they are bringing the Xbox game pass(which is a catalog of like 200 games for a monthly price) to basically any non high end gaming compatible device and it's all gunna be a streaming service that is based on cloud servers so no one has to go out and drop $200-$300 on a Xbox. I think it's a pretty big achievement if they can actually get it to work quite well as Playstations version sucks.

Two_FacedPosted:

After reading the article I'm still not sure what this actually means. I don't really understand how this would work. What does Xbox Live do besides allow access to games that are capable of playing online, play online (multiplayer) how would this work? I download the Xbox Live app on my iOS then I can do what exactly? Use live messenger or party chat? Not like I can play a game off of game pass on mobile device that's not a mobile game.

AnimePosted:

This seemed kind of funny, but I hope it works good on these devices.


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