Phil Spencer from Microsoft rejects the scenario that the old Xbox One will hamper the progress of games for the Xbox Series X, citing a comparison in the domain of PC gaming as an argument.
You could probably already hear that Microsoft won’t be running games exclusively for the new Xbox Series X console until 2022 but will still stick to the old Xbox One hardware as well. This is a totally opposite tactic from the one being prepared by Sony, which will release the last PS4 game next month and only play games for the PlayStation 5 in the future.
Some argue that Microsoft is immediately at a disadvantage with such a strategy because their seven-year-old Xbox One could hamper the progress of gaming for a new console that will be 2-3 times more powerful than the old one. But the Xbox boss says that kind of thinking is wrong and that PC gaming is living proof of that. Phil Spencer thus claims that the PC version of a game is always visually of the highest quality despite the fact that it is designed for weaker computers at the same time, and not just for the most powerful hardware on the market.
"The idea that developers don't know how to make games or engines or ecosystems that run on different sets of hardware… in the field of PC gaming, there is evidence that this is not true." Said Spencer.
Spencer says the Xbox doesn’t have a player exclusion strategy like the PlayStation. Instead, the new generation Xbox brings some improvements, but the old Xbox One still remains the current place to play.
“We need to applaud faster loading, nicer graphics, better performance, and lower latency, all of the things we’re focused on with the next generation of consoles. But that should not exclude people and set conditions for them where they will play. That's our point. " Spencer concluded.
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