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Last week SCEA's head of developer relations Adam Boyes said that Sony is contemplating adding an Early Access-like program on PlayStation and it looks like Microsoft is in a similar boat with its eye on this potentially groundbreaking shift in the console release infrastructure.When asked about Microsoft adding a pre-release service for still-in-development games, ID@Xbox boss Chris Charla told Develop, "It's something developers have been asking for, and we are listening really closely to developers, but I don't have anything to announce on that right now."
Charla continued to explain that it's something the Redmond-based company is researching thoroughly. "It's a really interesting issue with digital marketplaces, and it's something our store and marketplace team think about all the time," Charla said. "There's a lot of heavy deep thinkers, experts, PhDs working on these problems at Xbox every day - not just for the Xbox store, but for Windows Store and Windows Phone. Our goal is to have a rational marketplace, where good games are visible and sell well."
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