According to a conference schedule for this year’s GDC (Game Developer’s Conference), Microsoft is planning to expand their Xbox Live userbase from 400 million gaming devices to nearly 2 billion. Yowza!
How can they get this many users on board their service? Through a new cross-platform plan, Microsoft wants to integrate Xbox Live into everything from iOS to Android to Nintendo Switch (Sadly but unsurprisingly, no PlayStation).
See, right now, you can sign into Minecraft on Nintendo Switch with your Xbox Live account. But with this new strategy, there would be an even deeper level of Xbox Live integration. You would be able to “buy, play, pause, and continue their games from one device to the next on top of the most reliable social and multiplayer network in the world.”