Gjennom årene ble Xbox 360-eiere vant til å kunne laste ned såkalte trail-versjoner av Xbox Live Arcade (med en smakebit av innholdet) for siden å fortsette uavbrutt (mot betaling) dersom de likte det de fikk prøve. Denne muligheten har ikke vært tilstede på Xbox One, inntil nå:
- 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, kommenterer Microsofts ID@Xbox-sjef Chris Charla till 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, fortsetter han.
Gode nyheter for de som liker å prøve før de kjøper, og hvem gjør vel ikke det?