02-13-2024, 11:08 PM
Lots of conflicting information. What we know is that the Surface team is now in charge of Xbox hardware.
The new Xbox might just be off the shelf parts. That's the only way I can see a third party Xbox from MSI, ASUS, Samsung etc. being viable.
Changing Xbox to a sort of 'minimum spec' PC requirement based on certain features and offering a streamlined Windows OS that basically offers the Xbox UI/UX experience on a PC.
It would finally close the gap between PC and Console gaming if you could just run Xbox as an app on your PC. However, it would introduce a lot of issues that regular PC gaming suffers from or it would mean poor optimization on the old Xbox Series S|X.
But since the new PC-handhelds are already moving in that direction and AMD is focused on those low-cost / mid-performance APUs anyway I guess that is where MS is headed hardware wise. For the US market the Surface team could just redesign the box and refresh the parts every few years. In the EU you could just play the Xbox games on PlayStation, Switch 2, PC or a third party licensed Xbox device.
The new Xbox might just be off the shelf parts. That's the only way I can see a third party Xbox from MSI, ASUS, Samsung etc. being viable.
Changing Xbox to a sort of 'minimum spec' PC requirement based on certain features and offering a streamlined Windows OS that basically offers the Xbox UI/UX experience on a PC.
It would finally close the gap between PC and Console gaming if you could just run Xbox as an app on your PC. However, it would introduce a lot of issues that regular PC gaming suffers from or it would mean poor optimization on the old Xbox Series S|X.
But since the new PC-handhelds are already moving in that direction and AMD is focused on those low-cost / mid-performance APUs anyway I guess that is where MS is headed hardware wise. For the US market the Surface team could just redesign the box and refresh the parts every few years. In the EU you could just play the Xbox games on PlayStation, Switch 2, PC or a third party licensed Xbox device.