Sony and Discord announced their partnership over a year ago, but, for some reason, Xbox Insiders are getting first dibs on voice chat integration on consoles.
Discord confirmed in a blog post that the PC's most popular video game messaging app is coming to the Xbox Series S/X and Xbox One first, specifically, for Insiders.
This integration will let select players link their Discord and Microsoft accounts, making it possible to access your Discord friends list on Xbox. However, Microsoft confirmed that this is not a replacement for the current party chat system. Instead, the addition of Discord will serve as an alternative that will come in handy when playing crossplay-supported games with your friends.
The integration is far from perfect. Most likely, Discord worked with Xbox because of the Xbox Insider Programme. This "trial period" will give Discord a chance to work out the kinks before rolling the feature out for all Xbox users. Hopefully, a jump to PlayStation consoles is coming next.