While Sony has announced its PlayStation 5 Pro mid-generation console refresh, Microsoft is betting on a wholly different strategy for Xbox.
According to rumors, there will be no mid-generation console refresh akin to Xbox One X, which launched one year after the PS4 Pro and delivered top console performance.
Microsoft is instead entirely focused on the next generation of hardware. Sarah Bond, President of Xbox, has famously teased that it will deliver the biggest technological leap ever seen between console generations: Related Story Xbox is Operating Under A “Challenging Set of Revenue and Profit Goals”[...] we're also invested in the next-generation roadmap.
And what we're really 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 for creators and the visions that they're building.
It is believed that Microsoft will heavily integrate machine learning techniques to achieve this bold objective, which would otherwise be nearly impossible with silicon improvements alone.