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Epic Won’t Be Bringing Fortnite Onto Microsoft’s xCloud Platform By Tyler Lee, on 04/28/2021 18:58 PDT
Right now, Fortnite is available on a multitude of platforms including Microsoft’s Xbox platform, so you would think that it would also eventually be made available through Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming services. However, if you were hoping for that to happen as a way to play Fortnite on iOS devices, think again.
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During the deposition in the Epic VS Apple case, Epic was questioned as to why Fortnite was not available on xCloud. According to Joe Kreiner, Epic’s vice president of business development, this was a deliberate move on Epic’s part as they viewed xCloud as a competitor to Epic’s own PC offerings.
Epic Games is holding back Fortnite from being available on Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming service, according to a new deposition made public as part of the Epic case against Apple.
also a competitor to the PC. So what s the difference?
The difference, in case you haven t already read between the lines here, is that Microsoft takes 30% of the cut from Epic whenever someone buys Vbucks in Fortnite. Nvidia, by contrast, does not.
Fortnite is a free-to-play game on Xbox, and the only way to currently access the game on an iPhone is through Nvidia s GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Epic Games partnered with Nvidia last year to launch Fortnite on GeForce Now and has helped Nvidia offer a number of other games from its PC game store on the Nvidia cloud gaming service, where all of the revenue from the original game s purchase or any in-app purchases goes back to Epic rather than Nvidia. As far as Epic is concerned, the game is simply running on a PC.
With the Epic Games V Apple trial set to get underway in just a matter of days, court documents are starting to reveal some interesting facts about both companies. One court document reveals that Epic Games is keeping Fortnite off of Microsoft’s xCloud streaming service, as Epic views it as a competitor to its own …
Fortnite to its xCloud game streaming service.
Speaking during a deposition made public as part of Epic s legal battle with Apple, Epic Games vice president of business development Joe Kreiner was asked why Fortnite isn t available on xCloud, and confirmed it was a decision made to avoid cannibalizing itself. We viewed Microsoft’s efforts with xCloud to be competitive with our PC offerings, said Kreiner during the deposition.
Fortnite is, of course, still available to play on Xbox platforms, but it seems like it won t be getting xCloud support anytime soon.
As it stands, the only way to stream the title is through Nvidia s GeForce Now cloud gaming service, which Epic CEO Tim Sweeney last year called the most developer-friendly and publisher-friendly of the major streaming services.