You might be able to get Minecraft as one of the first games.
Within the next few months, you will be able to purchase mobile games developed by Microsoft via the company’s very own store. During the Bloomberg Technology Summit, Xbox President Sarah Bond disclosed that the firm is going to develop a web-based shop where users would be able to download its mobile games and receive discounts on add-ons or in-app purchases. In order to avoid being “locked to a single ecosystem,” Bond stated that the company has made the decision to establish a shop that is accessible through a browser rather than an app. This decision was made in order to make the store “accessible across all devices, all countries, no matter what.”
From the beginning, Microsoft will exclusively host its own games, which implies that it will offer a significant number of titles that were developed by Activision Blizzard. As you may recall, it entered into a deal for $70 billion to acquire the gaming developer and publisher. The transaction was finalized in the previous year. It is quite probable that the initial batch of titles that are accessible for download will include Candy Crush Saga, which has reportedly produced twenty billion dollars in revenue since its inception in 2012, as well as the mobile games that are associated with Call of Duty. Also, according to Bond, Minecraft might be one of the first games that you can get your hands on.
According to a statement made by a spokeswoman for Xbox to Bloomberg, this is “just the first step in [the company’s]journey to building a trusted app store with its roots in gaming.” In the future, Microsoft intends to make the app store accessible to third-party publishers; however, the company did not provide a specific date for accomplishing this objective.
Just a few months before the regulations outlined in the Digital Markets Act of the European Union were relevant, the company made the initial announcement that it intended to open a gaming store for mobile devices running Android and iOS. Apple and Google are required to comply with DMA regulations by allowing third-party app shops to be available on their respective platforms and by providing alternative charging systems for the purpose of making transactions. Additionally, they are required to let app sideloading, which will be a significant shift for Apple, a corporation that is well-known for its “walled garden” method to conducting business.
However, even though they would be exempt from paying some of the fees that Google and Apple impose, operators of third-party app shops will still be required to pay the firms for bypassing the official stores of their respective mobile platforms. Both of these internet companies have previously provided an explanation of the changes they are making in order to come into compliance with the DMA requirements. On the other hand, the competitors of the corporations discovered that the modifications they are doing are insufficient, which prompted the European Commission to begin probing their compliance programmes.