Microsoft Will Put First-Party Games on Xbox Game Preview

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Microsoft’s Shannon Loftis confirmed that first-party games would be developed using Xbox Game Preview, but stopped short of revealing which games would use it.

Looking to the future, Microsoft stressed that all cross-buy plans will be formulated on a game-by-game basis. Therefore, after filling up the internal storage of your gaming console, there is not much option except to switching out internal drive with a bigger one or if supported get an external hard drive.

However, unlike Steam, Microsoft wants to make sure Game Preview remains a curated service, “that the games that are offered through Preview are just as high quality as will eventually ship on the platform”.

Quantum Break, Crackdown 3 and Sea of Thieves are three games heading to Xbox One next year, will any one of these be released into early access?

There’s been a “huge amount of uptake” with the service thus and Loftis admitted that, “We’ve had a bit of a mad rush from the development community”.

Currently, Game Preview only houses games from indie developers.

The part about being able to finish the early build is particularly interesting, as it implies that the games will have a definitive end or some kind of conclusion. We’ve been very clear with developers and gamers both that this isn’t a viable means of funding development. I think it’s important for us to engage. “We are curating that program”, said Loftis. With digital versions of games hitting upwards of 50GB per game, storage space on the Xbox One can be depleted rather quickly.

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