Xbox isn’t planning on leaving the console business any time soon, according to Xbox President Sarah Bond, who revealed during yesterday’s episode of the Official Xbox Podcast that Microsoft is not only working on a next-generation console, but that it’s being designed to deliver what will apparently be the biggest performance leap seen in an Xbox console ever. Recent rumors have suggested that the Microsoft Surface team is deeply embedded in the project, while older leaks would suggest that refreshed versions of the Xbox Series X|S will be out this year.
Bond mentioned:
- “…[we have] some exciting stuff coming out in hardware…”
- “…what we’re focused on there is delivering the largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation, which makes it better for players and better for creators and the visions they’re building.”
Brooklin (Xbox Series X Refresh):
Ellewood (Xbox Series S Refresh):
What could be the next-gen Xbox:
Bond added:
- “When we look at our hardware, it really is, and Phil said this earlier, it’s where you get the most flagship, seminal experience of Xbox.”
- “…it also represents a developer target. Our developers can build the specs of our hardware, and we invest to make sure when they do that the games are going to run great on our hardware, but they’re also going to be able to be accessed across any screen because of all the other investments we make. So we’re giving them an easy way to access as many players as possible.”
- “…we actually have more creators right now building for Xbox than ever before, thousands of them, by nature of those investments. And we got more to come.”