While Sony and Nintendo appear content to focus on their own hardware, Microsoft has made an aggressive push in recent years to expand its gaming aspirations beyond the Xbox. That push will continue in 2019, as the description of an upcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2019 session reveals that the company is preparing to release a new software development kit that will allow developers to integrate Xbox Live into games across a variety of new platforms, including the Nintendo Switch. This was first spotted by Avers on Twitter over the weekend.
“Xbox Live is expanding from 400M gaming devices and a reach to over 68M active players to over 2B devices with the release of our new cross-platform XDK,” reads the description. Microsoft says that players will be able to connect “between iOS, Android, and Switch in addition to Xbox [and] Windows PC.”
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Microsoft plans to bring Xbox Live to Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 10:08:51 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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