The way forward for Xbox is ready to be clarified in a press convention this week, ending hypothesis over the console’s future.
Over the previous month, there have been rampant rumors surrounding the gaming platform, with gamers wanting some reassurance from mother or father firm Microsoft.
We reported {that a} press occasion could be scheduled to interrupt this silence after Head of Xbox Phil Spencer posted to X (previously Twitter) final week:
We’re listening and we hear you. We have been planning a enterprise replace occasion for subsequent week, the place we sit up for sharing extra particulars with you about our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Xbox. Keep tuned.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) February 5, 2024
When will Xbox announcement happen?
Microsoft has set a date to replace players at 3pm EST on Wednesday, February 14 by way of the Xbox official podcast.
The social channel posted that Xbox President Sarah Bond and Matt Booty, Head of Xbox Video games Studio will be part of CEO Spencer on the announcement panel.
Please be part of us for a particular version of the Official Xbox Podcast.
Hear from Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty as they share updates on the Xbox enterprise. pic.twitter.com/TxwWJVUbgx
— Xbox (@Xbox) February 12, 2024
The marquee occasion has been the results of suspicions that console exclusives like Sea of Thieves, Starfield and Hello-fi Rush is likely to be transferring to pastures new.
Hello-Fi Rush info leaked initially of this month exhibiting totally different branding that earmarked a transfer to the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Change, as reported the Verge.
Microsoft has a bunch of titles tethered by acquisitions just like the Activision Blizzard takeover within the latter a part of final yr, that give the studio the flexibility to make large choices and not using a worry of dropping studios now not desirous to create on Xbox consoles.
If these titles have been to leap the digital divide then the allegiances of the player-base could also be break up, as we mentioned in Starfield’s case could occur as a result of poor reception of the Bethesda title, however Microsoft may make investments again on a falling star.
We additionally reported that an Xbox podcast has unearthed particulars that Microsoft, reasonably than pulling out of the console market, really has two new machines within the pipeline for 2026, together with a handheld Nintendo Change (however extra doubtless Steam Deck) competitor, in addition to a brand new ‘conventional’ Xbox console.
So till we see what Phil Spencer and the panel have in retailer, there isn’t a definitive reply to the smoke and mirrors which have been constructing as much as this Wednesday’s announcement.
We’ll as all the time be there to maintain players posted on all the data throughout the gaming world and eagerly await the fallout of the podcast.
Picture: Xbox on X.