Xbox seems to want to bet very big on its next-gen console. An e-mail sent internally in any case confirms the desire displayed by Microsoft’s gaming branch.
We owe this discovery to Microsoft Central, which shared the email sent by Sarah Bond, President of Xbox. While the Xbox Series seems to be struggling to find its audience, will Microsoft’s next-gen console be the one that everyone agrees on? In any case, it seems that the objective is clear internally.
The next-gen already in progress at Xbox
While sales haven’t really been good for the Xbox One and Series, the future of the next-gen console marked with an X could be more promising. Sarah Bond, President of Microsoft’s gaming branch, in any case wanted to motivate the troops via an email sent internally. This more or less uses the terms already mentioned during the official podcast last February, in response to rumors about carrying certain exclusives to the competition.
“ We’re going full speed ahead on our next-gen hardware and focused on delivering the biggest technological leap ever seen in a console generation “. In a second part, the e-mail indicates the formation of a team dedicated to the preservation of games. Understand by this that Xbox is already looking at a way to make the majority of games released on Xbox backwards compatible, in preparation for future hardware to come. We could learn more during the Xbox Showcase 2024 scheduled for June 9.
More Tera than Flops for the next generation of consoles?
It therefore seems that Xbox is not giving up and intends to be a serious competitor in the console market with the next-gen. As part of its lawsuit against the FTC regarding the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, it was then mentioned in leaked documents a hybrid potential between native and Cloud. Microsoft has in any case never hidden its love for Cloud Gaming, in particular thanks to its powerful Azure infrastructure. However, it is still too early to be certain of such an addition.
There would also be a question, in addition, of a native portable console. In parallel with the PS5 Pro, another Xbox Series would be planned, with the same technical sheet as the Series X, but without a reader. Microsoft’s gaming branch therefore seems to want to go all out on hardware in the future. Let us hope, however, that it will manage to keep its promises. Remember that the Series the most powerful next generation console », particularly in terms of Teraflops. The technical reality, and especially the sales, however, told a completely different story.