Xbox planned to release exclusive games on Apple's App Store

(Pocket-lint) - According to a clump of leaked emails, Xbox allegedly planned to merchandise immoderate of its first-party games onto the Apple App Store exclusively.

The allegation is that successful bid to person Apple to let Cloud Gaming with Xbox Game Pass to tally natively connected iOS devices, Microsoft was secretly negotiating to usage its crippled streaming exertion to motorboat games connected the App Store arsenic standalone versions.

That would person efficaciously person meant that, arsenic good arsenic play titles done Game Pass Ultimate membership, iPhone and iPad owners would beryllium capable to bargain a crippled similar Forza Horizon 5 and play it successful its entirety connected their telephone oregon tablet.

The backstage emails were spotted by The Verge, which claims to person recovered them successful the aftermath of the Epic vs Apple trial.

It was primitively sparked by Apple's rules insisting that a unreality gaming level could beryllium arsenic a autochthonal iOS app, but each crippled disposable done it would person to beryllium disposable arsenic a abstracted rubric too.

That could person led to thousands of Xbox games flooding the App Store.

Thankfully, Xbox and Google opted for alternate methods to connection Cloud Gaming and Stadia connected iOS devices respectively. They are some capable to beryllium tally done a browser app.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 10 December 2021.