Look on the Xbox One store and you still won’t find many game demos. It’s something users have asked Microsoft to encourage, and it sounds like Microsoft is listening.
Microsoft has recently updated the console with the same game trial functionality found on Xbox 360 – where you can download an Xbox Live Arcade title as a free demo and then pay to unlock the full version without downloading the game again. It’s not something any available games currently make use of, but future titles are free to.
“When Xbox One launched you could do game demos and you could do games. But we didn’t have the functionality that was on Xbox 360 – that ‘trial’ experience where you could download a demo and then convert it [to a full version],” Microsoft’s ID@Xbox boss Chris Charla has told Eurogamer.
“But now we do. In the same way that we update the Xbox One OS every month, they update the development system every month – or regularly, anyway. So that’s something that we recently turned on. I don’t think we’ve seen any ID@Xbox games yet that have shipped with trials, but we may well in the future. It’s something that’s open to everybody.”
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