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February 16, 2024 at 9:30 a.m. – In the official Xbox podcast, Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty talked about the future of Xbox and also commented on the current rumors surrounding multiplatform releases and the next generation of hardware. In this message we summarize everything important for you.
You’ve probably noticed: Yesterday evening, February 15, 2024, the official Xbox podcast was broadcast (including via YouTube), in which the Xbox leadership (Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty) talked about the future of Microsoft’s gaming division. In almost 23 minutes there were a lot of PR phrases and very little concrete information.
Everything you need to know about We have summarized the release of Diablo 4 in Xbox Game Pass and the subscription service in general in this news. This is about all the other insights from the podcast and the subsequent interviews, i.e. multiplatform releases, the next generation of hardware and Team Xbox’s current strategy.
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The future of Xbox
This year should more than ten major releases for Team Xbox queue. Matt Booty cited Hellblade 2, Vessel of Hate (expansion for Diablo 4), Avowed, Ara: History Untold and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle as examples. Still on our list are Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Gold Road for The Elder Scrolls Online, WoW: The War Within, WoW Cataclysm Classic and Towerborne. According to Booty, there will also be other games that will be presented for the first time in the Xbox showcase in June 2024. There will actually be a few Games from the Xbox ecosystem will soon be coming to PlayStation 5 and the Nintendo Switch appear. These are two service/multiplayer games that will benefit directly from a larger community, as well as two small projects that don’t really fit into the ranks of the big first-party blockbusters anyway. Phil Spencer and Co. didn’t want to reveal which titles they were (so as not to spoil the respective teams’ announcement plans). However, it seems certain that the games are Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves und Grounded Depending on the success of these four Xbox titles on Switch and PlayStation, further multiplatform ports could follow later. Blockbusters like Starfield and Indiana Jones and the Big Circle should, according to Phil Spencer, in the foreseeable future NOT on competitor platforms to be published.
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The Xbox management emphasizes that, at least since the takeovers of Zenimax and Activision Blizzard, they have been one of the world’s largest publishers of games that appear on PlayStation and Nintendo platforms. In the mobile sector, too, we are now one of the largest providers in the world. According to Sarah Bond, we can expect one in the winter quarters Xbox hardware announcement. It is said to be the biggest technical leap that has ever occurred between two hardware generations. In an interview with The Verge, Phil Spencer added that they are currently on different types of hardware would work that should be characterized by unique aspects. For example, there is talk in the rumor mill about a new Xbox handheld.
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