A Steam-style Early Access programme is a common request amongst ID@Xbox developers, the platform holder’s Chris Charla has told Develop.
Reports have been bubbling for some time about a similar program for PS4 and Charla told Develop in an interview last week that it’s a talking point at Xbox as well.
"It’s something developers have been asking for, and we are listening really closely to developers, but I don’t have anything to announce on that right now," he said. "There’s a lot of heavy deep thinkers, experts, PhDs working on these problems at Xbox every day."
Develop has more details.