Two Xbox One events planned for Japan

Microsoft has confirmed that its own first party games will eventually come to the Xbox Game Preview program.

Xbox Game Preview still has a bit of a ways to go before it becomes a trusted and natural part of the development process, but it’s progressing quickly enough. Microsoft apparently plans to incrementally curate the games over a period of time armed with the might of community-driven support (feedback, testing and, of course, money).

Xbox Game Preview is a program that allows Xbox One users to buy and play games that are still in development, following the model established by Steam (and spearheaded by games like Minecraft, which was available to buy before it was complete).

After delivering an incredible press conference during Gamescom earlier this week, Phil Spencer the man behind all things Xbox has shared his thoughts on upcoming games and technologies in this interview published by the official Xbox Youtube channel. Xbox Game Preview will undoubtedly be compared to its PC counterpart, meaning Microsoft will have to take larger steps to avoid these known issues. “Our fans absolutely love it, there’s been a huge amount of uptake in the service itself”.

We’re investigating adding backwards compatible EA games to EA Access in the future.

“I think that’s one of the reasons we want to make sure that we’re curating; we’re screening the developers as well as the games themselves. You have to be able to actually finish the game in order to get into the program”. We have first-party publishing, which is something I’m responsible for, and that’s a very tight partnership where we typically have as many Microsoft people on the title by the end of the game as the developer does.

“This exciting new collaboration with Microsoft Xbox is an important milestone for Seagate that will help us to reach a new audience, which has an insatiable appetite for storage”, said Jeff Fochtman, senior director of product marketing for Seagate. Indie devs everywhere are eager to have their games featured on one of the first major wide-scale early access programs for games consoles.