Microsoft is done making games for Xbox One: What this means for Xbox One users
Microsoft recently hosted the Xbox Games Showcase 2023 wherein the company announced the new gaming and updates coming to its games on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Windows PC, Steam, Cloud, which includes Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass Day One, between 2023 and 2024. However, one platform that remained completely missing from the announcement is the company’s Xbox One gaming console. Now, just days later, game studio chief Matt Booty has a confirmed that the company is no longer developing games for its Xbox One gaming console. Also Read — Microsoft rolls out improvement to Windows Ink along with many other features
Microsoft introduced the Xbox One gaming console as a successor to the Xbox 360 back in November 2023. Now, after what has been almost a decade-long run, the company has decided to slowly pull the plug on the gaming console. Also Read — Microsoft Chairman Satya Nadella shares a glimpse of what future with generative AI would look like
Booty while speaking in an interview with Axios confirmed that the company is no longer developing games for Xbox One. “We’ve moved on to Gen 9,” Booty told the publication adding the no internal teams are working on games for its dated gaming console “outside of support for ongoing games like Minecraft”. Also Read — OpenAI warns Microsoft to slow up its AI integration process into Bing
During the interview, Booty asserted that the product, that is, Xbox One gaming console has reached the end of lifecycle stage. Despite that, the company is continuing to support the Xbox One users by making its games available and playable via its cloud-based game streaming service, that is, Xbox Cloud Gaming. “That’s how we’re going to maintain support,” he said.
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