Did Microsoft Just Accidentally Announce MAJOR Nintendo Switch STREAMING Service? GDC 2019
152Microsoft's Xbox One may be lagging behind Sony and Nintendo in the current generation of console wars, but a MAJOR twist just occured. Microsoft has announced plans to have a streaming service work IN CONJUNCTION with the Nintendo Switch, and will discuss further at the Game Developer's Conference (GDC 2019) in San Francisco.
Based off of factual evidence presented to us regarding the Game Developers Conference 2019 schedule of events, and piecing the parts together, we can conclude that SOMETHING is definitely in the works behind the scenes. How would you feel if actual Xbox One games came to the Nintendo Switch via Microsoft's Streaming Service?
Full description of Microsoft's discussion at GDC 2019:
Xbox Live is one of the largest, most engaged gaming communities on the planet with decades of experience providing managed game services to developers that save you time and unlock all of the social and engagement features that players love.
Now Xbox Live is about to get MUCH bigger. Xbox Live is expanding from 400M gaming devices and a reach to over 68M active players to over 2B devices with the release of our new cross-platform XDK.
Get a first look at the SDK to enable game developers to connect players between iOS, Android, and Switch in addition to Xbox and any game in the Microsoft Store on Windows PCs.
Takeaway
Xbox Live players are highly engaged and active on Xbox and PC, but now they can take their gaming achievement history, their friends list, their clubs, and more with them to almost every screen.
This will break down barriers for developers that want their communities to mingle more freely across platforms. Combined with PlayFab gaming services, this means less work for game developers and more time to focus on making games fun.
GDC 2019 Schedule LINK: https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/xbox-live-growing-engaging-your-gaming-community-across-ios-android-switch-xbox-and-pc-presented-by-microsoft/865429
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