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Microsoft says it’s built an Xbox game store on Android but can’t launch it (www.theverge.com)
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft exec Sarah Bond said that in November, “players will be able to play and purchase Xbox games directly from the Xbox App on Android.” It’s almost December and the feature still isn’t live, but Bond says it’s not Microsoft’s fault. 

The problem, as she puts it, is that Microsoft would only be able to do it once a court order takes effect that forces sweeping changes for Google’s Play Store on Android, like opening it up to competition and ending the requirement for apps to use Google Play Billing.

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[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago

To this day I can't understand how one of the wealthiest corporations of the world ends up with Mattrick, Spencer and Bond at the helm of their gaming division. This unholy triunvirate has overseen TV, Kinect, and a blatant attempt at dumping by lowering the value of software, they tried and failed to spend everyone out of blockbuster access and yet, after a decade, they still haven't been able to produce a handful of good games from the massive stable of studios they gobbled up. Worse, they closed the studio that made the best game of their entire catalog. How, just how can these incompetent idiots keep failing upwards, please make it make sense.

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