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		carlosrg on Aug 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to p... I don’t think GDK is a valid alternative to UWP for hobbyist development. > Xbox console development requires the “Microsoft Game Development Kit with Xbox Extensions (GDKX)”. Games will need to retarget and rebuild for Xbox One or Xbox Series X\|S with the GDKX installed. > The GDKX is currently only available under confidential license within an NDA Xbox program (e.g. ID@Xbox). Given that games are mostly DirectX with maybe 5% of UWP-dependent code I personally don’t mind if they deprecate it at some time in the future.

pjmlp on Aug 6, 2021 [–]

The idea is that you develop with GDK, then you are already 80% there when applying for an XBox submission.

HoloLens (aka Windows Mixed Reality) has already moved away from UWP, you are supposed to use Unity, Unreal or OpenXR.

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