Xbox boss Phil Spencer wants to bring Xbox Game Pass and the overall Xbox ecosystem to more people than ever, but releasing an “Xbox app” on a rival console is not going to happen, at least not yet. Asked directly by GamesRadar if there would be an “Xbox app” for Nintendo Switch, as people have theorized, Spencer said Microsoft is more focused on growing Xbox on the web, PC, and mobile to meet its scale ambitions as opposed to putting Xbox on Nintendo Switch or another “closed” platform. In fact, Spencer pointed out that “those closed platforms don’t want something like Game Pass” anyway.
“You know, it’s the right question because people usually ask me about releasing one individual game or another. And what I say is I want the full Xbox experience to be something that we deliver,” he said. “We have no plans to bring it to any other kind of closed platforms right now,…
