Thursday night marked the time to unveil the future of Xbox in a special episode of the Official Xbox Podcast (also on the Xbox Wire blog) with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, Xbox President Sarah Bond, and Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty. However, the approximately twenty-minute podcast did not bring any big surprises and all participants first of all reassured the fans that the strategy did not fundamentally change.
One of the main pieces of information is the fact that four games will be released on competing consoles. The ports happened largely because growth stalled last year and Xbox needed to find new players. Phil Spencer didn’t name the titles specifically, but he did mention that two of them are live-action and the other two are classic single-player games. However, he said that when the ports are announced, it will make sense. According to The Verge editor Tom Warren, these should be the headlines. Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Grounded and Sea of Thieves.
But according to Spencer, those are the only four games that are actually planned, and players on other platforms shouldn’t take this as a sign that there will be more. Neither Starfield nor Indiana Jones are among those four games, and they will not be moving to other platforms, Spencer directly confirmed. It was also confirmed that Xbox is definitely not done with exclusives and all third-party games will still be released on Day 1 of Game Pass.as has been the custom until now. New games from Activision and Blizzard will be added, starting with Diable IV on March 28th.. Game Pass will still only be on Xbox and PC.
Hardware won’t disappear either, quite the opposite. According to Sarah Bond, the hardware development team is now bigger than ever. We can also expect a new console (updated or portable?) and a new controller later this year.. In the same time working on the next generation Xbox consolewhich Bond must bring “the biggest generational leap in history”.
In principle, it can be said that little will change for Xbox players, and other than individual games, Microsoft has no plans to switch to a PlayStation or Switch edition. The company has made a commitment to continue supporting both Game Pass and the hardware, as well as preserving the games discussed at the end. At the same time, Microsoft studios are preparing a number of new games, and in the podcast we learned that The traditional June showcase will take place this year as wellwhere new trailers and gameplay footage will be shown.
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