Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Xbox One Game Development – News18

Microsoft has mentioned that it’s not creating video games for the Xbox One—its third mainline house gaming console, first launched in 2013. It has been near a decade for the reason that console launched. Intended to compete with the PlayStation 4, the console noticed a number of {hardware} revisions submit-launch—proper from the Xbox One S to the extra highly effective Xbox One X, or Project Scorpio, because it was initially referred to as.

“We’ve moved on to Gen 9,” Xbox sport studios chief Matt Booty informed Axios. Microsoft has informed that no first-celebration video games below the Xbox Studios umbrella are below improvement, however this doesn’t imply that Microsoft will go away customers within the mud and cease supporting the console.

Microsoft will probably be utilizing Xbox Game Pass and its cloud streaming companies to energy the final-era console. As famous by The Verge, the gaming large is providing video games like Microsoft Flight Simulator for the console utilizing cloud streaming, and shifting ahead, Matt Booty acknowledges that this would be the manner Microsoft maintains assist for the system.

Notably, on the lately concluded Xbox Games Showcase this week, Microsoft confirmed no first-celebration video games for the system—having the ability to run natively on it.

From the appears to be like of it, it looks as if Microsoft goes all-in with its present-era Xbox Series X and Series S consoles and has lastly embraced the “next-gen.” The firm has first-celebration video games just like the reboot of Fable, Starfield, and Forza Motorsport below improvement for the programs.

Notably, video games like Bethesda’s Starfield checklist having SSD as the fundamental spec for PC customers, and contemplating Xbox One and even the extra highly effective One X provide HDDs, the consoles are exhausting to assist shifting ahead. 

Rival model PlayStation can be slowly dropping assist for the PS4 console, and shifting ahead, titles like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and Final Fantasy XVI will solely launch completely for the PS5.