Xbox Live expands its domains: Microsoft wants to be the king of entertainment and brings its platform to iOS and Android

A busy week for Microsoft as far as leisure is concerned. We have seen how Project xCloud is executed and the truth is that in principle it offers very good impressions... in the absence of testing it. We heard rumors about the arrival of Xbox Live on the Nintendo Switch and in its eagerness to conquer other platforms, now brings Xbox Live to Android and iOS Something we had already anticipated in early February.

The _online_ gaming platform of the American company makes the leap to mobile ecosystems knowing that in this field it has a lot to gain if it manages to get ahead of its rivals.The goal is to integrate Xbox Live functionality into iOS and Android games, if developers are up to the challenge.

A multiplatform entertainment

The news was given in The Verge and in it they state that Microsoft wants to port all titles to be eligible for the achievements, bookmarks, statistics, friend lists , clubs and in general Xbox Live functions, which would reach iOS and Android. In the words of Kareem Choudhry, Head of Cloud Gaming at Microsoft.

Minecraft is therefore the example to be followed by Microsoft and this is materialized in the Microsoft Game Stack. It is a tool that combines all the functions, services and platforms for developers of the company and it does so with Azure and PlayFab, the service platform that helps developers create and launch games connected to the cloud.

What about Nintendo Switch?

At the same time there are references to the possibility of Xbox Live debuting on the Nintendo Switch, something he has also referred to Kareem Choudry:

Be careful at the end of the sentence…with the word today Can you hide a yes, but soon? It is clear that Microsoft wants to conjugate a community of players beyond the borders of Xbox or PC. A community that shares achievements, gamertags and statistics, among other things, and that does so regardless of whether or not the game used has the Microsoft seal.

The developers will be in charge of accepting the challenge and adopting the measures they deem appropriate to integrate the developer who chooses which components to synchronize .A year, this 2019, that appears busy for Microsoft, so we will have to be attentive to all the news generated by the company based in Redmond.