Microsoft continues to take firm steps towards the launch of Xbox Series X. The company's next-generation platform does not leave a week without releasing new details, making it clear that its approach is much more aggressive and different from what Sony is doing with PS5. Not long ago we knew their final specs and we were learning more about their possibilities, now they arrive new details about your subscription and "loan" system with Xbox All Access, a service with which they want to go for all.
The boss of the Xbox division, Phil Spencer, has had a talk with IGN in which he has advanced that they will go "big" with the model of "rental" / financing of consoles and video games of the company. The proposal, already active with the current family of Xbox One consoles, wants to go a step further once XSX is launched on the market. In fact, the emphasis of the signature on this model has served for Spencer to also speak of more than one console in the future.
This proposal, which consists of the payment of a few monthly payments to have access to both the catalog and the console to enjoy all that MS offers currently, it would evolve to better adapt to what the next-gen of video games will provide. The one from Redmond did not want to go into details about a possible refocusing or what will be offered, but he did make it very clear that they are not going to be half-hearted. They want to stand out by offering something outstanding and different from the rest.
Even so, one of the most interesting points of his words does not have to do with the service itself, but with what it encompasses. Spencer has stated that Xbox All Access will be enhanced with the launch of "consoles", in the plural. It may have been a small slip, or a small sneak peek, that Xbox Series X won't be the only platform the company will bring to the gaming industry in late 2020.
Lockhart, the new inexpensive Xbox model confirmed?
The mere fact of calling its new Xbox Series X console already unleashed all kinds of theories when it was presented at the 2019 Game Awards. To this we must add the already distant rumors of a cheaper and less powerful model of the new Xbox, it would have the code name Lockhart. Perhaps that is the other console that Spencer hints at when talking about the "boom" of the Xbox All Access service in the new generation.
Whether that is the case or not, it is still too early to say anything. Microsoft has to step forward and clarify what it is preparing for the new generation by showing all the cards of its hardware, although right now it seems that its priority is to clarify the catalog. They have already stated that they will soon talk about the games that will come with Xbox Series X to advance the experiences that the new generation will provide.
