Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox division, acknowledges that price and power was one of the pitfalls of the console.
"Tv, tv, tv," cried Don Mattrick when Xbox One appeared to the public and the press for the first time. During that event, Microsoft announced the main features of the console, which orbited around a very specific device, Kinect. As a result, the price became more expensive and the players turned their backs. Phil Spencer replaced Don Mattrick as head of Xbox, and although years have passed, the manager does not want to commit the same mistakes with Xbox Scarlett, the new generation console of Redmond.
This was explained by Phil Spencer himself in an interview with The Verge. "I would say that something we have learned from the generation of Xbox One is not being in another league in terms of power or price," he said. “If you remember the beginning of this generation, we left [with a product] 100 dollars more expensive, and yes, with less power. We started Project Scarlett with this leading team and with the aim of achieving commercial success. ”
Many generations to come?
According to Spencer, commercial success is key to Xbox, which does not see the farewell of the console as something close. The manager believes that there will be many other generations of machines, so they will continue betting on it. "We are completely focused on Project Scarlett and we want to compete," according to his words, "in the right way," which is to focus on "cross-play" and "backward compatibility."
Not surprisingly, Microsoft has announced that the Xbox One games developed by the first-party studios will be updated to offer improvements in Project Scarlett, similar to what Xbox One X does with the titles of less powerful models. For its part, the company continues to look to the future with Xbox Game Pass, which between the end of 2019 and 2020 will introduce many important titles. Sagas like Final Fantasy or Yakuza will be released in the service.
