Unity is a good engine if you started developing Games. It has Great potential. But it mostly focused on Mobile/Tablet. But it can also Export in PS4/XBox One though. If your priority is mobile industry, go with Unity. And if you want to go in Console market use different Engine like Unreal or Cry Engine.
Those who have registered with the ID@Xbox program will soon be given the Xbox One deployment add-on free-of-charge. The deal is open to any developer, not just partners to Microsoft Games Studios. A special free Xbox One version of Unity Pro is also being developed.
The Unity add-on for Microsoft's next-gen console will support Kinect, SmartGlass and the impulse triggers of the new Xbox controller. Microsoft said that developers will now effectively be able to deploy their games to all Microsoft platforms, given existing Unity support for Windows Phone and Windows 8. Early testing for Unity on Xbox One will begin soon. The full beta program will start in 2014. 'Our two companies are aligned in our goals of furthering the democratisation of game development and the expanded role of independent studios in today’s gaming ecosystem,' said Unity CEO David Helgason. '2014 is going to be an amazing year for gamers, in large part because of the efforts of smaller studios and the creative works you’re producing.' Unity's deal with Microsoft for the Xbox One is similar to the partnership the middleware firm struck with Nintendo for the Wii U, which also offers free Unity support to developers.
I watched the keynote for Connect2016 and was excited to see that the rumors on VS is coming to Mac were true. I downloaded it as soon as I could and began poking around in it.
Afterwards Scott Guthrie did a Q&A and one of the questions concerned me. He said that Microsoft was not going to bring UWP to the Mac. My question is why? He basically stated (and I could be wrong on this, but since Channel 9 hasn't posted the video for me to re-watch, I can't be sure) that it didn't make sense to have UWP on Macs.
A little later I watched a Q&A with Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza where Nat said that they would be adding features based on the requests of the users. I might be reading a little too much into this but I believe that he means UWP could be added later on. The reason this concerns me is that I am learning Unity 3D and would like to stay in my Mac workflow. I am comfortable in it, I feel secure and work much faster on a Mac (in spite of it's gaming limitations), but I want to develop for as many platforms as possible - hence why I chose to learn Unity versus SpritKit and SceneKit. While I understand that certain aspects of VS are only going to work on Windows PCs, I have been holding on to hope that eventually there would be some way to develop for Xbox One, Windows, PS4, Android, as well as macOS and iOS.
Admittedly, I am somewhat new to development so this may be nothing more than a fantasy, but having spent months looking for answers but I haven't found anything that gives a good explanation. I've poured through forums and online documentation but nothing. Are there some resources that can answer this out there? Even a neon sign on Microsofts' website 'NOPE' or 'SUCKS TO BE YOU' would at least tell me to give this up and move on. Hi mikesway79, Welcome to the MSDN forum. Sorry for this inconvenient, as far as I know, The UWP is support on Windows OS like windows 10, 8.1/8 until now. Visual Studio for Mac is a new member of the Visual Studio family focused on mobile and cloud development using Xamarin and.NET Core.
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I found this document about Visual Studio for Mac preview version:, the best mobile and web IDE for Mac is Android, ISO & macOS and Xamarin.Forms, since it not includes or mentions any new function about UWP. Maybe the UWP will be added in the future version, but now it not supports yet. I have reported your suggestion to.
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