Ondrej Holzman On Tuesday, we informed you that Microsoft plans to port Xbox and PC games to iOS and the first title should be Age of Empires. In the end, only the second part will be true. Age of Empires it will indeed arrive on iOS, but we won't see other games from the xbox repertoire...
Microsoft was originally rumored to have teamed up with Japanese studio KLab to help the Redmond giant with the port Age of Empires for iOS and Android, which subsequently led to speculations as to whether Microsoft is planning to bring other PC and Xbox games to mobile devices as well. However, it has now become clear that for the time being the partnership with KLab only concerns Age of Empires and no other games.
We might see some more PC games on iPhones and iPads in the future, but not Xbox ones. "The article was mistranslated. We are not going to bring Xbox games to non-Microsoft devices,” said Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios.
Therefore, there is only one option in the mobile sphere - that Xbox games could reach the Windows Phone platform, which is a product of Microsoft and also already supports the popular Halo. However, we will not see these titles on iOS or Android.
And with Age of Empires, I'm personally afraid that it won't be a port of the Windows classic, but some new Pay-To-Win style thing where gold isn't mined, but bought for real money.
No, I don't think so, then they wouldn't be Age
I wish you were right.
When real money is added to the strategy, it ceases to be a strategy.
Well, Microsoft wouldn't be stupid and wouldn't do it on all platforms. When MS brings it all together and we can play the same quality titles on tablets and mobile phones as on xbox, it will be great