Xbox One X

[Front-Rower]

Microsoft are done with console "generations", or so they claim. My assumption from here on is that they will just release iterations of the same ecosystem with more powerful hardware.

They are more focussed on Windows 10 integration and innovation around the software component. From what I have read on various forums and articles looks like the console is now more of just an entry point (like Surface) to the Windows platform (obviously modified on Xbox). But you are right in saying they will keep updating the hardware every so often to provide the extra grunt under the hood to keep up with ever changing Direct X and development requirements.

 

[Eelectrica]

I look forward to the inevitable games working on Xbox One XX2.3 but not the Xbox One.
Or worse, working perfectly on one iteration but a total mess on the other despite being officially compatible.

Games will most likely have min/recommended requirements, like PC games with min hardware setup and recommended setup. Currently the min requirement might be an X-box one, recommended X-box 1X. Game devs will be tweaking graphics settings for the different boxes. That's how I see it working anyway.
Eventually X-box one will be phased out, and that's as it should be. Technology has to keep moving forward. Can't afford to stagnate for years like it did.

As a PC gamer, this is good news for me, as it will mean I'll need to keep upgrading my hardware too. Which I like doing, so that's cool.
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[perverse]

 

[Firey_Dragon]

Man, I really don't get this logic. Firstly hardware and software departments are independent entities. You can develop software while specs are being finalized, it's an x86 platform, you're using UWP as a development platform. What use is a powerful console if you don't have games?

2 to 3 years after scorpio is released, people can expect game announcements. This is the Xbox One release all over again. Rely on multi-platformers which usually target common denominators, then get destroyed on exclusives by Sony and Nintendo. They're setting themselves up for failure big time at this point if they are expecting a lead time of 2 to 3 years, at which point is when Sony would be announcing PS5.

When I started this job three years ago, hardware was a real focus for us because I thought we had more work to do there. Xbox One S shipped last year, the X is shipping this year, I love our hardware line. Xbox Live was something I wanted to focus, coming on Android, iOS, Windows PC because I really want people to play games on the place they want to go play.

Our first party is a critical part of that equation. Yesterday, I know people want to see what we’re investing in new.

We are investing in new things, we signed things just recently that I thought, ‘Hey, from a PR standpoint it would be really easy for me to put a trailer on screen’, but then I know the game is not coming for another two and half or three years, so I didn’t want to do that.

I understand some people would say, ‘Hey, that would give me confidence in the future of Xbox’…

This is a cheesy line, but I’ll just say, trust that this is important to us as a platform. From the top CEO of the company down, if you talked to Satya [Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO] he would say ‘I understand, we need to invest in content in the gaming space’.

That is important and we are going to invest. We have Sea of Thieves, Crackdown 3, State of Decay 2, Lucky’s Tale, Ori and the Will of the Wisps…But I know what you’re asking about. Big, triple A console games, I hear that and I’m committed to that. Today I wanted to talk about things that if you’re going to buy the console you will be able to play, but I’ll continue to work to deliver games. We did on hardware, we did on platform and [backward] compatibility and we will do this on first-party as well. It is critically important.

http://wccftech.com/spencer-signed-exclusives-2-3years/

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Not sure if Frank is a bot or just a smidge geniused

 

[Haffa]

Not sure if Frank is a bot or just a smidge geniused

Ricky Stuart’s new assistant coach.