The new generation console gaming era we entered in 2020 with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series; continues on its way by increasing gears. Although Microsoft has not yet smiled in this competition, the company aims to strengthen with brands such as Starfield, which will be released from Bethesda, and Call of Duty, which it will attract with the potential acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
While doing this, it is necessary to get rid of the old habits and technical limitations. If a game development company wants to reach millions of Xbox One owners, it has to make improvements to the hardware of these consoles. Microsoft, on the other hand, was the first company to officially leave the ship for its own old consoles, now announced that new Microsoft games will only come to Xbox Series consoles.
Microsoft will continue to support games already running on Xbox One consoles, but One users will no longer be able to see the new Microsoft game:
According to Xbox manager Matt Booty, speaking to Axios, third-party developers (for example, Ubisoft, EA Games) who want to develop games for the Xbox platform other than Microsoft; If they wish, they will be able to continue to release new games for One S and One X. However, this decision taken by Microsoft for their own platforms may push other major developers to give up on old consoles.
Of course, the fact that the new Flight Simulator or Fall Out will not be released will not upset all old console owners. In order to better understand this, we can think that Sony suddenly announced that “We will not release new games to PlayStation 4”. In such a case, Sony may face serious reactions because it has more special games and brands, but this is a safer harbor for Microsoft. In addition, considering the company’s growth targets in the new generation and the need to increase its sales; We can understand why he turned his back on the One family. Of course, due to the technical limitations we mentioned above, we may soon see a similar statement from Sony…
Starfield is also coming to Xbox Series S and X only;
Could Starfield, on which Microsoft rely the most and Bethesda worked on for years, be the Star Wars legend of the game world with its wide open world? Time will show that. However, the company has already put the new generation console requirement on the table so that players can enter this universe. Similarly, it’s only a matter of time before other highly anticipated AAA games will follow suit.
Cloud gaming topic:
Sony recently announced that it is conducting cloud gaming tests for the PlayStation ecosystem. In other words, being a PlayStation Plus or Xbox Game Pass subscriber will be enough to play games remotely in the near future – without the need for a console. Simultaneously, the announcement of Xbox Game Pass support to GeForce NOW, the favorite of cloud gaming systems, intensified the competition in this regard.
Now, companies are struggling to sell more of their consoles, which may be the last advanced gaming hardware we will use, without cloud gaming as a widespread and accessible technology. If you’re expecting “more powerful hardware than a gaming PC” for PlayStation 6 or Xbox’s next console, you can suspend it, our next consoles will probably be just “streaming” devices that need high-speed internet connection (by the way, Xbox’s He also has a scrapped project called Stream Box).
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