“The Xbox Stream is Back for Tokyo Game Show 2022. We are pleased to confirm that Xbox will be making its digital return to Tokyo Game Show on September 15 at 6 p.m. JST / 9 a.m. UTC / 2 a.m. PDT, with a streamed broadcast celebrating the vibrant players and visionary creators across the region. Like years’ past, this will be a show curated for our players in Japan and Asia. We invite fans to tune in to the Tokyo Game Show 2022 Xbox Stream where you can expect to see updates on existing titles from Xbox Game Studios and titles launching from developer partners that we hope will delight players here in Japan, across Asia and around the world.”
From Windows Central
“I saw the future of Xbox at Gamescom, and it was in an app. The Xbox TV app was announced a short while ago during Xbox’s E3 (not-E3) festivities, although it had been teased and hinted at for quite a long while before then. It’s the obvious next evolution for the service, competing for attention with the likes of Netflix and so on. It also makes sense from an end-user perspective, given that Xbox games are generally designed for the big screen and not a tiny phone interface. The Samsung NEO QLEDs and other 2022 TVs designed for this app seem to run it extremely well. It’s fast and fluid, taking advantage of the Samsung’s potent chips for both the app experience and the video encoding stream. Indeed, my experience was practically 1:1 with what customers will experience, running games from the nearest Azure data center rather than some locally hosted server, using the congested Ethernet network at the Koelnmesse convention center in Cologne, Germany.”
From Xbox
“Gaming for everyone, everywhere: our view on the Activision Blizzard acquisition. While we love consoles, we recognize that they are not the only way that people play games. Today, the largest and fastest growing segment of gaming is mobile platforms. To reach the billions of players where they are and no matter what device they play on, we need to embrace choice. Giving players choice in how they play their games makes gaming more accessible and leads to larger, more vibrant communities of players. Choice is equally important to developers. Developers benefit from having a diversity of distribution and business models for their games. Choice unlocks opportunities for innovation and enables the industry to grow.
We are expanding choice in two ways: through the creation of Game Pass, which gives players a subscription option; and by bringing more games to mobile platforms, including through our cloud game streaming technology. Subscription services like Game Pass make gaming more affordable and help players from all over the world find their next favorite game. Game Pass empowers developers to bring more games to more players, not fewer. We intend to make Activision Blizzard’s much-loved library of games – including Overwatch, Diablo and Call of Duty – available in Game Pass and to grow those gaming communities. By delivering even more value to players, we hope to continue growing Game Pass, extending its appeal to mobile phones and any connected device.”
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