game news It’s official: this notorious gaming console is dying
Microsoft will no longer develop games for the Xbox One. The future of the company now lies in the new generation of consoles.
It’s just goodbye
It is finished! During an interview with axiossaid Xbox Studios boss Matt Booty The company will no longer develop games for the Xbox One. “We’ve moved on to Generation 9,” he added. So there will be no more cross-platform between old and new generations of consoles, instead teams will focus on the Xbox Series. We’ve noticed over the last few years that some licenses have already phased out the One such as Deathloop, Hi-Fi Rush, Ghostwire Tokyo, Redfall and soon Starfield.
Regarding the development of ongoing games “like Minecraft or Sea of Thieves”, the support remains the same. Future Xbox Series games will only be playable on our good old Xbox One via Xbox Cloud Gaming. “That’s how we’re going to keep the support going,” Booty said. In the interview, the director also mentioned that these new plans should force programmers to make better use of the Xbox Series S, which according to some studios is not powerful enough. As a reminder, creators are required to make their titles compatible with it.
Last year there were rumors that when the S Series was launched, many studios were demanding an end to mandatory Xbox Series S compatibility.” Twitter. In contrast to the Xbox Series X, the latter is cheaper but also less powerful. Only since then Microsoft has not given up on it, on the contrary. During the Xbox Showcase in early June, gamers were able to discover a new version of the console, with more memory and a new color. It now features 1TB of SSD capacity, compared to 500GB on the original model. “With features like Quick Resume, lightning-fast load times, and up to 120 FPS gameplay, you’ll get the most out of every minute of gameplay – all powered by the Xbox Velocity architecture,” Microsoft said. on his blog.
