MonoGame Newbie - Porting XNA project to PS4 & Xbox One.

[SimonDarksideJ]

OK, I just put up a lengthy answer here

How to create new Xbox One XDK project?

If you simply want to create UWP projects for the Xbox, you only need to register for the new Xbox Live Creators Program https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/03/01/announcing-xbox-live-creators-program For this you don’t need the XDP or access to the Xbox branch of MonoGame, just the Windows 10 UWP templates. (targeting the Anniversary build 14393+) I did a video session on this there: If you then want to go Full native, as @harry-cpp states, you will need to apply to ID@Xbox with a…

Will see if I can put up a sticky post to make MonoGame’s Xbox position clearer.

Simply put:

• Anyone with a retail Xbox can use UWP and the Xbox Live Creators Program to publish free. This also gives you publishing (using live services) to all Windows 10 devices
• Native Xbox Access is only available through the ID@Xbox program, this gives you only Xbox publishing.

For anyone starting anew, I highly recommend starting with UWP, build you game and ship. Only if you start hitting perf wall issues, then apply to ID@Xbox and your pitch will go a lot further as you have a game to show.