Spotify won’t be heading to Xbox One any time soon

20 Jul 2016

Steve Wright

The Xbox One will soon receive the ability to play background music over games and apps, but don’t expect that to be via Spotify.

The popular music streaming service took to Twitter to confirm it’s focused on PlayStation availability.

Hi! Right now we're focused on our exclusive partnership with PlayStation, we don't have any info regarding other consoles/BE

— SpotifyCares (@SpotifyCares) July 17, 2016

Sony and Spotify partnered in early 2015 to power the new PlayStation Music experience.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.