Although the industry is heading to the world of streaming, the Microsoft manager does not believe that this generation will be the last of all.
Phil Spencer, leader of the Microsoft video game department on Xbox, believes that the decline of traditional consoles is not as close as some predict. The manager, in an encounter with Game Maker’s Notebook podcast, has expressed that he expects traditional home hardware to remain for at least another decade.
“The cloud is really a means to an end”
During his interview on that radio show, promoted by the founder of Insomniac Games, Ted Price, Spencer has had no qualms about being optimistic about the demand for traditional consoles despite the nascent streaming market; one where Microsoft itself is increasingly immersed through projects such as Project xCloud, which will be one of the complements present in the generation of Xbox Series X from this Christmas.
Project xCloud, Microsoft's big bet for the game in the cloud.
The question has been asked according to his recent statements, where he left out Nintendo and Sony as the main competitors to give way to Google and Amazon in that background race. Therefore, for him the battle of consoles versus streaming is concluded in a state of coexistence "for more than a decade."
"I think a world where you don't have to own a device to play video games helps the industry," he says. “That does not mean that owning a device is not part of my experience. I think I will have a video game console connected to my television for the next decade. ”
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In fact, for him “The best way to play on my TV is to have a local device, download and play. But sometimes I am not in front of my television; sometimes I don't have the device in front of me (with which he has the native experience), and that's where our bet with the cloud is born ”. He concludes by stabbing that "For us, we really believe when we say that‘ when everyone plays, we all play. " (…) The cloud is really a means to an end ”.
This will be Xbox Series X: 12 teraflops and improved backward compatibility
This past Monday the five main technological features of Xbox Series X, the new Microsoft console were revealed. As a summary, it will have 12 teraflops, Variable Rate Shading, DirectX Raytracing for the first time in a console, fast suspension for multiple games, solid SSD storage hard drive and Dynamic Latency Input to improve the response. We are talking about a processing power twice as powerful as an Xbox One X to ensure a “better framerate, bigger and more sophisticated world”. As regards the graphics card, it will be based on an RDNA 2 architecture; The processor will be Ryzen with Zen 2 architecture.
Xbox Series X will launch this Christmas of 2020 with at least Halo: Infinite and all the huge current Xbox Game Pass catalog.
Via | WCCFTech
