Xbox everywhere. Now it will sell games through Android

According to Judge James Donato, the Play Store is an illegal monopoly and, therefore, the company must allow more options to download apps, such as in this case the Xbox store or the Epic Games Store, the company responsible for the legal case. against Google.

Xbox finds more places for its cross-platform strategy

Starting with this new model, Microsoft and Xbox will be able to offer titles to Android users without having to pay a percentage of the income to Google from the costs of video games or purchases within them.

Likewise, it represents another step in its strategy to bring the brand’s games to more platforms and not just consoles, one of the objectives that the company has set since announcing the purchase of Activision Blizzard.

One of the most important points of this operation, of 69,000 million dollars, in addition to acquiring franchises such as Call Of Duty, was also based on buying King, the studio responsible for important mobile games such as Candy Crush. Even Phil Spencer said at a hearing that for Xbox’s business to be more relevant, it would need mobile customers.

On this path to becoming a multiplatform video game company, Spencer has made decisions that have not been well received by fans, such as bringing its titles to rival consoles, a dynamic that will deepen even more in the near future, according to its own statements.

“We have to anticipate that there will be more changes to some of the traditional ways games are created and distributed. That is going to change for all of us, but the result has to be better titles so that more people can play,” he commented in an interview at Gamescom 2024.

In that context, Xbox announced that the next Bethesda title (a company it acquired in 2020 for $7.5 billion), Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, will premiere in December on Xbox and PC, although also on PS5 for the first half of 2025.

This has angered the most loyal users of the brand, as they consider that it is a movement that does not take them into account, since they consider having bought the Xbox platform for its exclusive games, however, as they are available on other consoles take away value from your device.