Microsoft’s Project Scorpio – the souped-up, 4K-ready version of the Xbox One – could mark the end of traditional console generations, with the company hoping to treat dedicated gaming devices more like smartphones – with regular iterations instead of leaps and bounds every six or seven years.
“For us, we think the future is without console generations,” said Microsoft’s Head of Xbox Games Marketing, Aaron Greenberg, in an interview with Engadget. “We think of this as a family of devices.”
Greenberg added that Project Scorpio is “a pretty big bet” for Microsoft, noting that the success of the updated hardware, which is still over a year away from launch, could “change the way we think about the future of console gaming.”
With the help of initiatives like Xbox 360 backwards compatibility and Xbox Play Anywhere – which merges with Windows 10 – Microsoft hopes to keep the Xbox One community and their libraries consistent across multiple platforms, rather than bench the old ones each time a new system enters the field.
“It’s one ecosystem,” said Greenberg. “Whether you have an Xbox One S or Project Scorpio, we don’t want anyone to be left behind.”
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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