Although Facebook Gaming is absorbing Mixer, it gained’t share the identical privileges in your Xbox One.
When Microsoft made a significant push into streaming with Mixer, the platform holder built-in the streaming service into the Xbox One dashboard, in addition to a few of its first-party games like Forza Horizon 4.
Now that Mixer is dead, Xbox One house owners are questioning if Facebook Gaming will change Mixer on their console dashboard. The reply is solely, no.
“If you are asking if the current Mixer integration in the dashboard is just going to become Facebook gaming. The answer is no,” mentioned Major Nelson, when requested straight on Reddit.
Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, additional reiterated that Microsoft desires to provide gamers choices, so it’s not laborious to rule out some type of Facebook Gaming integration sooner or later, although not on the similar degree Mixer enjoys at present.
Yes, we completely wish to give players selection of the place to stream from Xbox.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) June 23, 2020
Indeed, Xbox One has at all times allowed gamers to stream to platforms apart from Mixer, however Microsoft was pushing it laborious, making Mixer the defacto service for Xbox streams.
