Microsoft says it’s built an Xbox game store on Android but can’t launch it

A number of weeks in the past, Microsoft exec Sarah Bond said that in November, “gamers will be capable of play and buy Xbox video games straight from the Xbox App on Android.” It’s nearly December and the characteristic nonetheless isn’t stay, however Bond says it’s not Microsoft’s fault.

On October 18th, Decide James Donato granted Google’s request for a keep whereas it appeals his ruling that the Android app retailer is an unlawful monopoly, which might go away issues hanging within the stability for fairly some time. Bond referenced that in a thread on Bluesky today, writing, “On account of a short lived administrative keep lately granted by the courts, we’re at the moment unable to launch these options as deliberate. Our group has the performance constructed and able to go stay as quickly because the courtroom makes a remaining choice.”

Microsoft has been planning its cellular app retailer technique for years. Nevertheless, as irritating as it’s for avid gamers, the corporate nonetheless hasn’t explicitly mentioned what concerning the state of affairs prevents it from providing Xbox sport purchases like Steam and PlayStation already do, to go together with its built-in Xbox Cloud Gaming options. We additionally don’t have an replace on the standing of its browser-based mobile store, which still shows a “coming soon” sign, identical to it did in August.