Microsoft has moved on from the Xbox One and is now not creating first-party video games for its earlier technology of consoles. “We’ve moved on to Gen 9,” says Xbox Sport Studios chief Matt Booty, referring to the Xbox Sequence S / X technology, in an interview with Axios.
Whereas Microsoft will nonetheless help Xbox One {hardware} and video games like Minecraft working on the earlier technology, no inner studios are engaged on new video games for the Xbox One anymore. Microsoft has been slowly pushing up to now, utilizing Xbox Cloud Gaming to supply up video games like Microsoft Flight Simulator to current Xbox One customers.
Microsoft’s current Xbox Video games Showcase didn’t include any first-party video games that may run on the Xbox One natively, and Booty says the corporate will proceed to leverage its Xbox Cloud Gaming infrastructure to supply the most recent video games to Xbox One customers. “That’s how we’re going to keep up help,” says Booty.
Microsoft’s personal recreation builders at the moment are centered on Xbox Sequence S / X consoles, regardless of claims that some builders are asking Microsoft to drop obligatory Xbox Sequence S compatibility for the most recent Xbox video games. The $299 Xbox Sequence S launched as a console able to 1440p gaming at as much as 120fps, however many video games have solely hit 1080p and with out the upper body charges of the extra highly effective Xbox Sequence X.
Microsoft’s bigger and extra highly effective Xbox Sequence X has extra uncooked GPU energy and likewise a bigger 16GB of RAM, with the smaller Xbox Sequence S providing simply 10GB of RAM. The reminiscence constraints have been painful for some builders, however Microsoft has labored to try to enhance the general graphics efficiency of its miniature Xbox and unlock extra reminiscence for builders to entry on the Xbox Sequence S.
“Is it extra work?” constructing for Xbox Sequence S, “certain,” admits Booty. However he claims Microsoft’s personal Xbox recreation studios have been in a position to get extra efficiency out of their newest video games constructed for Xbox Sequence S. Microsoft additionally introduced a black 1TB model of its Xbox Sequence S console throughout its showcase in an try to handle issues across the 512GB storage scenario on the bottom Xbox Sequence S.
With the Xbox One firmly within the rearview mirror at Microsoft, Xbox chief Phil Spencer admitted lately that the corporate “misplaced the worst technology to lose within the Xbox One technology, the place all people constructed their digital library of video games.” Microsoft is now trying to bounce again with the Xbox Sequence X / S after a quiet yr for Xbox releases in 2022. However the Xbox Video games Showcase demonstrated a strong variety of first-party video games coming to Xbox in 2023 and 2024.
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