In the past, with the Xbox 360, Microsoft offered up a system where certain games came with demos, where gamers could try products before purchasing them, using “trials”. Now, the Xbox One looks to have a similar system in place.

As part of its downloadable July update for the console, Microsoft has introduced the “trial” system to the Xbox One, where players can download games to their system as a free demo, then decide if they want to purchase the full title, without the need to download any additional content.

“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.”

As part of its new initiative, Microsoft wants to make its ID@Xbox library easier for gamers to access. “At the beginning of the day and the end of the day, on Xbox One a game is a game is a game,” said Charla. “They won’t be segregated in any way at all.

“Saying that, we have had a lot of player requests for some way to specifically find the ID@Xbox games, so we have talked about adding some functionality so that people can do a search for just the ID@Xbox games.

“But anything we did like that would be in addition to our core values which are that they are in the store with everything else.”

Several titles have released in the program over the summer, including Outlast and Sixty Second Shooter Prime. And more are on the way, according to Charla. “You can expect lots more games coming,” he said. “There are literally hundreds of ID@Xbox games in development right now.” Many will be out this year, but still more have been locked in for release further in the future. “There a lot in development for 2015, and some for 2016, too.”

Source: Eurogamer