Microsoft Wants to Launch Xbox Games Store on iPhone

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

Playing AAA games via the Xbox Cloud should take quite a bit of revenue away from the mobile games sold on the Apple App Store. I can’t imagine Apple will be happy about this although they probably saw it coming and its good for consumers.

Yeah totally. Let's ignore the fact Xbox Cloud is already available natively on Android via the Google Play Store yet Google doesn't seem to be losing much revenue from mobile games. The Google Play Store also seems to be doing fine despite Android having other app stores like Samsung's. Tim Cook era needs all the money, or else you'll make Tim sad. You don't want to make Tim sad do you?

 

[SoldOnApple]

Then let Apple make an App Store on xbox to sell native games without paying Microsoft any fees.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Playing AAA games via the Xbox Cloud should take quite a bit of revenue away from the mobile games sold on the Apple App Store. I can’t imagine Apple will be happy about this although they probably saw it coming and its good for consumers.

Different games for different purposes for the most part. I doubt there is much overlap there.

 

[Bodhitree]

Different games for different purposes for the most part. I doubt there is much overlap there.

It depends on what people end up playing. Nearly all the revenue of iOS games is in-app purchases, which are strongly related to play time. If people start playing a lot of Xbox Cloud games for a one-time monthly fee, they’ll find superior entertainment for less money. Its bound to have an impact, maybe not immediately but within a number of years.

 

[George Dawes]

Be interesting to see it on the apple tv

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

And I want macOS on a windows computer! oh wait! No I dont... 🤣 🤣

...I do.

You know macOS almost did end up on a Windows computer. Steve Jobs respected Sony so much he offered to let them put macOS on the Sony Viao laptops despite spending years to kill Mac Clones, but Sony declined since their laptops were optimized for Windows.

 

[MadeTheSwitch]

I'll never understand why people want to play games on a tiny 6" screen.

You apparently do not suffer from motion sickness. I do. The smaller screens help me with that. Although don’t forget such apps would run on the larger displays of ipads too, not just phones.

 

[Sophisticatednut]

No that point was that even when enacted by highest possible law, the world doesn't automatically comply... and when profit is at stake, even when complying seems inevitable, modern businesses with means can appeal for years to keep the money inflows rolling.

The OP was implying that just because of some proclamation and new laws, Apple would be compelled to alter their very profitable way of doing business. Maybe... but that would be many years from now, when all efforts to overturn any such demand is exhausted.

This rumor implies Microsoft will be trying to make this "store" happen ASAP. I suspect it is much more likely to go like the Epic games scenario went than Microsoft simply adding in this store... laws & proclamations or not.

Well that’s the case. This is enforced by the Supreme Court. There’s no appeal process. The proclamation is legally valid the second it’s signed. And apple would essentially have to prove they shouldn’t be labeled gate keeper for special reasons. Or be forced to follow the objective rules

 

[Sophisticatednut]

It’s semantics that Microsoft and Sony have pushed to limit regulation. Xbox and PS have web browsers, media players, streaming apps, games, etc. Heck, the Xbox is basically a PC at this point. The Xbox app in Windows is basically the same code base that runs on the console.

Nope, there’s no semantics. They just fail to meet three goals. User base, revenue and businesses on their platform to be classified as gate keepers

So does Apple get to feature their App Store on the Microsoft App Store as well? How does that work when the Microsoft Appstore has been reached by means of the Apple App Store - does it still have another Apple App Store inside it??

Apple is completely free to do it. They just don’t want to do it.

Multiple stores are available on the windows store