Microsoft may be looking forward to the next generation of consoles and the release of the Xbox Series X, but that doesn't mean it's ignoring the present. Today a video was leaked of the new Xbox store app, codenamed Mercury, that's planned to be implemented in 2020. The storefront will presumably be used across all Xbox console platforms, from Xbox One to Xbox Series X.
Initially several screenshots from the new Xbox store app were leaked after it showed up in a listing for Xbox Insiders. However, not long after that a full video giving an extensive demo of the Xbox app was shared by Russian Twitter account WinCommunity. The footage is perhaps from that Insider beta.
Mercury looks much more like an iterative step forward from Xbox's current store app. It has big panels and all of the same core features as the current app. That means that game profiles remain, along with trailers, screenshots, reviews, and other game-specific information.
The biggest changes to the Xbox store app seems to be visual in nature. The app looks cleaner and clearer, and perhaps most importantly, faster. The animations used for the app's transitions between pages and panels are very fast, or at least convey a speedier shift. If there are deeper changes to the Xbox store app, Microsoft will have to share them because they aren't immediately obvious.
There's no word regarding when the Xbox store app will be officially announced or tested with a larger ring of Xbox Insiders. Expect more information in the months to come.
Source: WinCommunity, Windows Central