Next-Gen Xbox to Be the ‘Largest Technical Leap’ for a Console Generation

Microsoft shared new particulars about its plans for Xbox {hardware}, teasing the subsequent technology of Xbox consoles and offering updates about its gaming enterprise in a particular version of the Official Xbox Podcast Thursday. Whereas the corporate confirmed that 4 Xbox-exclusive video games would launch on PS5 and Nintendo Switch, it reiterated its dedication to creating Xbox {hardware} and exclusives titles on the platform. Within the podcast, Xbox president Sarah Bond mentioned that Microsoft was focussed on delivering the “largest technical leap” for a brand new console technology for the subsequent Xbox.

Bond additionally confirmed that followers might anticipate new Xbox {hardware} later this yr within the vacation season — more likely to be the rumoured mid-generation refresh of the Xbox Collection S/X consoles. “There’s some thrilling stuff popping out in {hardware} that we will share this vacation. And we’re additionally invested within the subsequent technology roadmap,” the Xbox president mentioned. “And what we’re actually focussed on there’s delivering the most important technical leap you’ll have seen in a {hardware} technology,” she added.

Xbox presently affords the Xbox Series X, its flagship current-generation console, together with the lower-end, digital-only Xbox Collection S.

Again in September final yr, leaked court documents from the Federal Commerce Fee antitrust trial over Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard had revealed that the corporate was planning a mid-gen refresh for its Xbox Collection X and Collection S consoles someday in 2024. The paperwork additionally included idea pictures of upcoming Xbox {hardware}, together with the platform’s roadmap for future releases.

In response to the leaked idea pictures, Microsoft’s mid-gen refresh of the Xbox Collection X is codenamed ‘Brooklin,’ an all-digital console that boasts the identical peformance and options as the unique one, aside from the optical disc drive. The console seems to have a cylindrical design and an upgraded 2TB storage and can probably keep the Collection X’s pricing — $499, or Rs. 54,990. The leaked paperwork had claimed that ‘Brooklin’ would launch someday in October 2024. Along with the console, Xbox additionally plans to launch an upgraded controller with gyro, haptic suggestions and adaptive triggers, similar to PlayStation’s DualSense controller.

Within the podcast, the place Bond was joined by Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer and Xbox Sport Studios head Matt Booty, the Xbox president didn’t disclose a launch window for the subsequent technology of Xbox consoles, however Microsoft expects the next-gen Xbox and PS6 to launch in 2028, as additionally revealed by court docket paperwork from the FTC trial in June final yr. “This time period would, in any case, transcend the anticipated beginning interval of the subsequent technology of consoles (in 2028),” the corporate had mentioned within the paperwork. The present technology of consoles — Xbox Collection S/X and PS5 — was launched in 2020.