Sarah Bond sets up new Team. Focused on Game Preservation and forward Compatibility

[The Wolf King]

What you need to know​

• Per emails received by Windows Central, confirmed by Microsoft as genuine, Xbox President Sarah Bond recently briefed her team on a wide range of topics.
• In the emails, Sarah Bond reiterated Microsoft's plans to build new Xbox hardware focused on delivering "the biggest technical leap ever in a generation."
• Sarah Bond also revealed that Microsoft has set up a dedicated team for future proofing our digital Xbox game libraries across future hardware paradigms to further "build on [Xbox's] strong history of delivering backward compatibility."
• Additionally, it was revealed that Xbox has become Diablo 4's biggest platform, since the game's inclusion into Xbox Game Pass.

 

[Kvally]

But but..Xbox and their console is dead!

 

[karmakid]

I wonder if this means there could be change up in the Xbox hardware, like if they decide to use NVIDIA, amd or their own tech instead, like arm.

Maybe they could license said tech out to others like steam or epic

 

[DriedMangoes]

I wonder if this means there could be change up in the Xbox hardware, like if they decide to use NVIDIA, amd or their own tech instead, like arm.

Maybe they could license said tech out to others like steam or epic

I think they just brought in someone who specializes in OEM parts, perhaps there is truth to some of the rumours of letting consumers pick and choose some parts to build their own Xbox ?

 

[karmakid]

I think they just brought in someone who specializes in OEM parts, perhaps there is truth to some of the rumours of letting consumers pick and choose some parts to build their own Xbox ?

What about software, since the Xbox one every console has been emulated the previous one via software. Like the one s emulated the one and so and so forth

I doubt that’ll happen though, cos licensing, unless they add new stipulations with devs and publishers going forth to keep something as open ended as that. Or just get a PC where there is no such thing, unless it’s sold through another third party store.

 

[DriedMangoes]

What about software, since the Xbox one every console has been emulated the previous one via software. Like the one s emulated the one and so and so forth

I doubt that’ll happen though, cos licensing, unless they add new stipulations with devs and publishers going forth to keep something as open ended as that. Or just get a PC where there is no such thing, unless it’s sold through another third party store.

I don't know. There will be 2 SKUs that is rumoured one handheld and the other console but not sure if the handheld will be native or streaming. One would assume MS has learned from this gen on what to do in regards to have multiple SKUs again for optimizing games.

 

[karmakid]

I don't know. There will be 2 SKUs that is rumoured one handheld and the other console but not sure if the handheld will be native or streaming. One would assume MS has learned from this gen on what to do in regards to have multiple SKUs again for optimizing games.

My guess it’ll be both, for the handheld. It’ll be the digital equivalent to the current s. It wouldn’t make sense to wait till next gen just for a streaming device that’s portable, since it would be just a streaming device and not a portable console, unless it has its own 5g like connection, which I doubt.

 

[DriedMangoes]