Phil Spencer confirms that not all current games work right now, but they are working on it.
The interview that Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox division, has granted to the GamerTag Radio program has generated many headlines. From the plans that the company has drawn for the Japanese territory to the explanation of why the console will not have exclusives in the first years. Other information that comes to light has to do with one of the functions that both new generation consoles, Xbox Series X and PS5, will address as an important feature, backward compatibility. According to the manager, the Redmond machine will have “lots” of games from previous generations that will work on the new device.
All Xbox One games are expected to be compatible with Xbos Series X. In the case of Xbox 360, as was the case with the previous console, there will be a selection. "I'm trying. It is currently under development, so it sometimes restarts. We are working with a list of approved games. You can see what I am playing, there are a lot of titles underway. ” Despite all the work that remains to be done, Spencer highlights the performance improvements in Xbox Series X, which occur simply in the heat of the hardware. Loading times, for example, will benefit greatly thanks to the SSD hard drive.
"If the loading times are faster in my Destiny than in yours, it may be because of the box," says the manager in a humorous way. Be that as it may, there are still many aspects to be specified, something that will happen over the next few months. Unlike Sony, Microsoft will be present at E3 2020, so news is expected.
Conceptual image of Xbox Series X.
The business in Japan
Phil Spencer considers the situation of the platform in Japan unacceptable, where the brand has always struggled to make its way. At the time of Xbox 360, the company signed important agreements with Japanese developers to bring Japanese videogames closer to their public according to their tastes. However, it never ceased to be a residual system in that territory.
“The Japanese Xbox market is important to us,” says Spencer. “Evidently, Sony and Nintendo are two solid Japanese companies there; They are doing a great job. I don't know if we will succeed in Japan in the short term, but for me the position we have now as a platform is unacceptable, ”he concludes.
Xbox Series X will go on sale at the end of the year, still without a specific date. Microsoft plans to strengthen the ecosystem it has created around the Xbox brand. In this way, services such as Xbox Game Pass will be used to unify the games on several platforms. In that sense, the company has opened the door to possible new models of the device. In fact, the name of the console is Xbox dry, as Microsoft himself clarified.
Source | GamerTag Radio (Via GameSpot)
