![]() "When we update all of the binaries at the same time, this will result in huge batches of app updates." "As we've run our Preview testing with hundreds of thousands of customers, our data shows that large parts of the audience play upwards of 10+ titles per month, or over 100 in the course of a year," Wright wrote. More significantly, though, packaging each streaming game as its own app would require sending out countless app updates whenever the core "streaming stack" was updated. ![]() For Microsoft and Apple, the system would also lead to lots of extra overhead in terms of app store metadata management and app review time, she wrote. For users, such a system would lead to cluttered home screens and the potential for "orphaned" app icons when games were removed from Game Pass, Wright wrote. In the emails, sent between February and April of 2020, Microsoft Xbox head of business development Lori Wright laid out some concerns about the idea of packaging each Xbox streaming game as an individual iOS app. The emails show that Microsoft engaged Apple in detailed negotiations about how individual xCloud streaming apps could work as a technical matter and even dangled the possibility of streaming "exclusive AAA titles" from outside of Game Pass to help broker a compromise position. Apple trial (and unearthed by The Verge) show how seriously Microsoft was considering working within these guidelines. However, new emails revealed as part of the Epic v. Gamers want to jump directly into a game from their curated catalog within one app, just like they do with movies or songs, and not be forced to download over 100 apps to play individual games from the cloud." ![]() At the time, Microsoft said this solution "remains a bad experience for customers. Further Reading Apple allows streaming games on iOS, but there’s a catch Last year, Apple rolled out a set of onerous guidelines that required streaming game subscription services like Xbox Game Pass to package each available title as a separate app in the iOS App Store. ![]()
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