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Will Every Xbox Be a Dev Kit?

Posted by samzenpus on from the working-it-out dept.

jfruh writes There were a lot of rumored features of the Xbox One that vanished after public outcry — that it would need an always-on Internet connection, for instance. But another rumor from that era was that every Xbox One sold would include a dev kit that would allow anyone to create games — and it looks like this is one dream that might be coming true soon.

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  1. Re:How could this be? by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    Xbox 360's Xbox Live Indie Games environment and Windows Phone 7's third-party app environment were crippled to run only C#[1], probably because these platforms lacked a full MMU. The type-safe sandbox was the only security means that the things had, much as in the Singularity research operating system. That might also be part of why Windows Phone 7 devices cannot be upgraded to Windows Phone 8.

    [1] The actual restriction was "verifiably type-safe IL that uses the libraries available in the .NET Compact Framework", but in practice that meant C#.