The truth of the story is Unity just changed how Xbox builds work, and not much more. Console manufacturers providing tools for development after you join thei

The truth of the story is Unity just changed how Xbox builds work, and not much more. Console manufacturers providing tools for development after you join their dev programs is bog standard stuff. In fact only needing a key is a huge step forward, back in the Wii-U days Nintendo would provide the actual binary of Unity Pro with changes baked in, not even a key. If I had to guess Sony and Nintendo are paying some sort of fee to get those Pro licenses they then give to devs for free, and MS was relying on the fact that Unity didn't gate console targets. Now Unity is forcing MS to join the program, which really isn't unreasonable to me. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's a way to recoup the very real cost Unity incurs supporting these targets to the benefit of the manufacturers.