You can finally put away your Xbox One, unless you have a good internet connection

After 10 years of good and loyal service, and a lackluster start to their career, the previous generation of Microsoft consoles will no longer be entitled to the next games from internal studios.

Xbox Series X|S have been under Christmas trees for a few years now. However, the Xbox One is still present on the shelves of TV cabinets, but also in the specifications of development studios. Well, not for very long.

” We have moved to the ninth generation »

Some will have noticed that during its last Xbox Games Showcase, Microsoft made no mention of the availability of its next games on Xbox One. This is not a marketing will: these titles will not be available on this console generation.

It is in an interview with Axios that Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, confirms the news. Microsoft has thus decided to focus entirely on the current generation of consoles, at a time when competition is a hit on the Sony side with the PS5.

However, for Booty, there is no question of completely abandoning the Xbox One. games like Minecraft And The Elder Scrolls Online will continue to receive their regular updates, while third-party publishers will still be developing games for the console for a few more years.

An imposing TV box?

Xbox One owners can rest assured that they will always be able to access the latest titles developed by Xbox Game Studios via the cloud. Indeed, Booty specifies that Microsoft will continue to exploit the infrastructure of Xbox Cloud Gaming with its old generation console. ” This is how we will maintain the support “, he says.

For how many years? Nothing is said about this. However, the company had preserved the Xbox 360 for a very long time, the last update of its operating system dating from 2019, that is to say… 14 years after its first release. So the Xbox One is about to retire early as a rather bulky streaming box. And we hope for her that it will last as long as possible.

Ultimately, the Xbox Game Studios official’s announcement comes as little surprise. With the Series S, Microsoft already has a console with reduced technical specifications, intended for the smallest budgets, which makes the Xbox One obsolete. In addition, with the anticipated end of shortages in the sector, third-party developers will finally be able to abandon the support of previous generations to turn definitively to the current generation of video game consoles.

Source : Wccftech