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Xbox App on PC's new Game Performance Fit Indicator in action. The feature, which should be particularly useful to Game Pass subscribers reckoning with the service's sizeable library of titles, is being referred to as the Game Performance Fit Indicator.Įssentially, each time you look at a game via the Xbox App, you'll see a short message offering a prediction of how well Microsoft expects it to run on your machine, generated by comparing a title's performance on PCs with similar specs to yours. He added that it would be “pretty trivial” for Microsoft to “adapt its Xbox and Game Pass apps to sell games and subscriptions on mobile devices.Microsoft is rolling out an updated version of its Xbox App for PC that includes an at-a-glance indication of whether your machine will likely be able to run a game before you download it. “Today, we can’t do that on mobile devices but we want to build towards a world that we think will be coming where those devices are opened up,” he said.Īccording to Spencer, smartphones are the “largest platform people play on” currently. While Microsoft wants to offer its Xbox ecosystem on any platform, Spencer acknowledged that this currently isn’t possible on mobile devices.
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“The Digital Markets Act that’s coming – those are the kinds of things that we are planning for,” Spencer said in the interview. As previously reported, the DMA will require that Apple loosen its grip on the iPhone and allow third-party App Store alternatives for the first time. In particular, Spencer references the Digital Markets Act, a new piece of legislation that will go into effect in the European Union in 2024. In an interview with the Financial Times, Microsoft Gaming head Phil Spencer said that the company wants to be “in a position to offer Xbox and content from both us and our third-party partners across any screen where somebody would want to play.” An Xbox app store on iPhone? Microsoft is already hard at work preparing for a world in which Apple is forced to allow third-party app stores on iPhone.
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