Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Xbox One Game Development – News18

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

“We’ve moved on to Gen 9,” Xbox sport studios chief Matt Booty instructed Axios. Microsoft has instructed that no first-party video games below the Xbox Studios umbrella are below improvement, however this doesn’t imply that Microsoft will depart 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 last-generation 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 just lately concluded Xbox Games Showcase this week, Microsoft confirmed no first-party video games for the system—with the ability to run natively on it.

From the seems of it, it looks like Microsoft goes all-in with its current-generation Xbox Series X and Series S consoles and has lastly embraced the “next-gen.” The firm has first-party video games just like the reboot of Fable, Starfield, and Forza Motorsport below improvement for the methods.

Notably, video games like Bethesda’s Starfield checklist having SSD as the essential 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 also 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.