The subsequent Xbox, codenamed Scarlett, is not going to be Microsoft’s ultimate console, in accordance with Xbox Head Phil Spencer.
Speaking to Giant Bomb during E3, Spencer mentioned Microsoft’s philosophy for launching new {hardware}, explaining that the corporate waits to launch a brand new console till expertise developments are nice sufficient that new {hardware} would have a big affect on the participant expertise.
The Xbox One was 5 occasions extra highly effective in computing efficiency than the Xbox 360. The Xbox One X supported 4K gaming. Spencer says Scarlett was born out of comparable developments:
“We think [Scarlett] is an important design point in the balance between CPU and GPU that we’ve just never really hit on a console before. So the thing for us past Scarlett is… what is that next inflection point of experience that would actually be meaningful?”
Scarlett is reportedly a powerhouse and marks simply the kind of significant leap in console {hardware} Spencer describes, nevertheless it received’t be Microsoft’s ultimate Xbox.
“We’re not planning for Scarlett to be our last console,” Spencer says, saying that Xbox continues to beef up its {hardware} workforce.
That stated, the corporate doesn’t know what characteristic would make a console after Scarlett extra significant.
“It would be something that would come along and say what I had before doesn’t feel like it’s fulfilling state of the art experiences that I have in my home,” Spencer says. “That’s what we’re planning for. We’ll always be eyes wide open.”
Perhaps the long run past Scarlett entails game streaming. Microsoft is presently advertising Project xCloud – its premium game streaming service that permits you to play Xbox games on any gadget without having a console – and console streaming, which helps you to stream games to your units out of your console, just like Sony’s Remote Play. By the time Spencer’s workforce begins work on Scarlett’s successor, he doesn’t anticipate sufficient development in cloud streaming applied sciences to foresee streaming as the following “meaningful feature.”
“I don’t think [by that time] that I’m going to be playing games that feel like my Scarlett games that are streamed on a screen that’s 60-inches,” Spencer says. “I may very well be fallacious, however we’re going to proceed with our xCloud work… and the magic that’s being put in there.
It’s seemingly game streaming will not be the end to consoles like some have predicted, so who is aware of what characteristic will warrant new {hardware} launches previous Scarlett? Maybe movement controls and Kinect will make a grand re-entrance.
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