14 DAY TRIAL // Phil Spencer, the leader of the Microsoft Studios, says that his company still has plans to add development functionality to the Xbox One at some point in the future but, at the moment, it is focused on making sure that the ID@Xbox program that supports indies is working well.
Destructoid quotes the executive as saying that “Seeing all the games in development and trying to give the teams feedback on the games as they come through is the focus. What we’re trying to do is facilitate the games coming to the platform as quickly as possible and right now there’s been focus on the people that can build today.”
The fact that the Xbox One would include game development tools was announced before the console was launched last year.
Microsoft then explained that it could not implement them as quickly as it wanted because it needed to deal with other elements of the device’s functionality.
It seems that, at the moment, the long-term plan is to offer some debug possibilities on a select number of Xbox One consoles in the near future, in order to allow indie titles to test mechanics on a large number of devices.
There are 25 titles set to come through the ID@Xbox program during 2014.