Xbox President Sarah Bond has confirmed that the company is already looking forward to the next generation of hardware and aims to deliver “the biggest technical leap you've ever seen in a hardware generation.”
Bond talked about this during the show's latest episode. Official Xbox Podcast, which aired today (February 15) and addressed the company's plans for Xbox in the future. While he didn't go into details, he did tease that some hardware news will be shared “this holiday,” so it looks like there's a lot to be excited about towards the end of the year.
“There are some interesting things coming out in the hardware that we're going to share this holiday season, and we're also investing in the next-generation roadmap,” he said. “What we're really focused on is delivering the biggest technical leap you've ever seen in a generation of hardware, making it better for gamers and better for creators and the visions they're building.”
The podcast episode was packed with news for fans to discuss, particularly confirmation that four Xbox games that were previously released as console exclusives are on their way to other platforms in the future. This follows weeks of rumors about a wide variety of Xbox games being considered for a cross-platform release.
Addressing this, Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer confirmed that no broader changes to Xbox's “core exclusive strategy” are in the works. He didn't directly name the games either, but hinted that two of them are “community-driven” and the other two are “smaller games that should never have been created as some kind of exclusive platform.” It was also clarified that neither star field either Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are included in this lineup.
It's also currently unknown when these four games will be released, but Spencer stated that the teams working on them have “announced plans that aren't too far off,” so fans will just have to watch this space.
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