Games like Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Saga would be distributed through this new alternative store.
Now that Google plus Stadia is about to close, Microsoft There is a great opportunity to get a good piece of the pie gambling on the cloud thanks to its Xbox-based cloud gaming system. However, the company There are no plans to stop thereand benefit from it Activion recently acquired BlizzardMicrosoft seems to want that are also attacking the mobile games market Creation of its own game store, an alternative to the Google plus Play Store and the Apple Aplicación Store.
So we could know that thanks to a A report submitted to the UK Government by Microsoftfrom them the corr Echo, through which the iniciativa of the company goes through Create a game store aims to attract a larger audience to the Xbox platform exclusive games which are unlikely to be distributed across the main repositories of the two major mobile operating systems.
Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Saga, the two most habitual in the new Xbox Store
The report in question was extracted from documents Microsoft submitted to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as part of the investigation into Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
This is specified in it Game store with a focus on mobile platforms It would benefit consumers by giving them another option to download their games, including habitual titles such as: Call of Duty: Mobile or Candy Crush Sagadeveloped by Activision and King respectively, both owned by Microsoft once the acquisition is approved.
“By leveraging Activision Blizzard’s existing player communities, Xbox will seek to extend the Xbox Store to mobile and attract jugadores to the new Xbox mobile platform. Microsoft hopes that by offering familiar and habitual content, jugadores will be more inclined to try something new.”
Microsoft is mentioned two of the most habitual mobile games of all time, and they will no doubt be in high demand to attract a large segment of the public who use their mobile phones to play. However, this must be remembered Google plus and especially Apple They won’t make it easy for you to offer your games through an alternative store.
Although it would be easy in Android Download and install APK from the store, afín to the Epic Games Store on iOS Aplicaciones from external sources cannot be installed easy.
On the other hand, the same report espectáculos that Mobile platforms could benefit from Microsoft’s expertise in the field of vídeo game development, particularly following the acquisition of the Activision Blizzard assets.
In this sense it is pointed out Your Xbox Mobile Games Store is based on several principles giving developers control over the payment methods chosen.
Of course Microsoft plans dependent on whether the purchase is made by Activision. We’ll have to wait for a response from regulators to see if Microsoft is actually capable of doing this a real alternative to Google plus Play and the Aplicación Store in the not too distant future.