Enable Smart Delivery for new games
You can support a new game that hasn’t shipped on XBOX One family consoles and XBOX Series consoles by using Smart Delivery. Building a Smart Delivery title is like building a single generation title. To build a Smart Delivery title, create an XBOX One base package and an XBOX Series X|S base package. For more information, see Getting started packaging for XBOX consoles. The GDK is required for XBOX Series X|S. We recommend that you use the GDK to build for XBOX One as well. For more information, see Developing a new title with the GDK.Best practices
Use Intelligent Delivery to define which portions of your title’s content can be selectively installed based on console generation, language, or custom tags such as game modes and maps. This reduces the size of game downloads and installations, and it saves users’ time and storage space so that they can get into the game as quickly as possible. For more information about targeting portions of your title for specific console generations, see Intelligent Delivery: devices specifiers. For more information about building test discs for Smart Delivery scenarios, see Creating cross-generation test discs.Enable Smart Delivery for released XBOX One games
You can support an existing XBOX One game that’s already been released by using Smart Delivery. Enabling Smart Delivery on an existing XBOX One game requires adding an XBOX Series X|S package onto the existing game product. Users can then see the game as one purchasable title. After purchase, the XBOX console can intuitively download and install the appropriate content to the user’s device.Smart Delivery can’t be used for a released XBOX One title under the following conditions.
- An XBOX Series X|S version of the game has already been released.
- A cross-generation bundle has already been released that contains XBOX One and XBOX Series X|S versions of the game.
Create discs for Smart Delivery games
Smart Delivery supports publishing discs for your title for single and dual SKU-cross-generation compatibility.Best practices
Use the following best practices to properly package an XBOX One and an XBOX Series X|S title that are both available.- Include both packages on the disc. This provides the best possible experience for users to install and play offline on either console generation.
- Specify a subset of each package that you want to include on the disc to reduce network installations. Consider which parts of your game are most critical to getting users into your game as quickly as possible. Determine which parts can be downloaded later or in the background. For more information, see Intelligent Delivery introduction.
- Don’t create separate XBOX One and XBOX Series X|S discs for the same Amaray case. Instead, use the multi-disc solution to include additional downloadable content (DLC) discs while gating access to both games through one licensed disc. This constrains the user to a single license even when they’re physically purchasing a game bundle. For more information, see Make package (makepkg.exe).
Smart Delivery game discs that only contain XBOX Series X|S content isn’t a supported scenario. If a disc contains only XBOX Series X|S content, it’s treated as an XBOX Series X|S-exclusive title.