{"id":104223,"date":"2019-11-22T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/354659"},"modified":"2019-11-22T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T23:08:00","slug":"microsoft-considering-xcloud-exclusive-games-from-first-and-third-party-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/microsoft-considering-xcloud-exclusive-games-from-first-and-third-party-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft considering xCloud-exclusive games from first and third party studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project xCloud&#8217;s CVP Kareem Choudhry&nbsp;says the company is \u201cin early talks\u201d with first- and third-party studios to create platform exclusives for its in-preview game streaming service Project xCloud, though any announcements or actual projects could be years down the line.<\/p>\n<p>The comment was one of many given during an X019 interview <a href=\"https:\/\/stevivor.com\/news\/xcloud-exclusive-games\/\">shared by Stevivor<\/a>, though Choudhry&nbsp;said that the branch\u2019s current priority is ensuring developers are able to bring existing Xbox games to the streaming side of the fence as easily as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of [Project xCloud] exclusives, we\u2019re in early talks with first- and third- parties, but we don\u2019t have any announcements to share,\u201d said Choudhry. \u201cNew content and IP takes eighteen months to two years [to develop].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That ease of bringing existing Xbox One games to the Project xCloud\u2019s catalog is a concept Microsoft has led with since the get-go. Elaborating on exactly how that will work for game makers, Choudry explains that API have already been added to the Xbox SDK with stream-focused functionality, allowing games to detect when they\u2019re being streamed and make changes to UI or networking code to accommodate any differing needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project xCloud&#8217;s CVP Kareem Choudhry&nbsp;says the company is \u201cin early talks\u201d with first- and third-party studios to create platform exclusives for its in-preview game streaming service Project xCloud, though any announcements or actual projects could be years down the line. The comment was one of many given during an X019 interview shared by Stevivor, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}