Xbox One to support Unity

Indie developers finally welcome

Apparently Microsoft seems to have decided to give Indie developers some chances on their upcoming new Xbox One platform. When talking to OXM, Unity Technologies CEO David Helgason, mentioned that they've been working with Microsoft for quite some time now and they're implmenting a feature which lets you export titles from Windows Store for free.

From Microsoft's point of view, one core aspect is, they support Unity. To achieve that, Microsoft will provide a toolset, using which, developers will be able to port games to the Xbox 360 as well as Microsofts upcoming console.

Quote:
Xbox 360 support was something we did on our own to support some of our customers, we came in really late in the cycle, so we kind of knew it wasn’t going to be a huge business for us, sagt Helgason. Because you know late in a cycle, people will have picked their technologies, built their own, there weren’t really a lot of needs.

So we did because we had customers who wanted to export games and they did that. Here we’re coming in really early in the cycle with a lot of support from Microsoft, also the difference is a few years ago we were a small company with a new toolset and now it’s a massive community with almost two million people.

Tens of thousands of games, is our last estimate – on mobile especially, but also elsewhere. And of course you know Microsoft is excited to work with us to bring the best of that community to their ecosystem.




Source: www.vg247.com

News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini


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