Microsoft made a raft of announcements today around the cloud – but it has also insisted it remains committed to making consoles.
Liz Hamren, CVP of Gaming Experiences & Platforms, said Microsoft was already working on new hardware, “some of which won’t come to light for years.”
“Cloud is key to our hardware and Game Pass roadmaps, but no one should think we’re slowing down on our core console engineering. In fact, we’re accelerating it,” Hamren said in a video briefing shown to press this week.
“We’re already hard at work on new hardware and platforms, some of which won’t come to light for years. But even as we build for the future, we’re focused on extending the Xbox experience to more devices today so we can reach more people.”
With the current generation of consoles just half a year old (the Xbox Series X and S and the PlayStation 5 launched in November last year), it will be some time before we see another generational leap in hardware. However, with the push towards streaming now in full effect, some have wondered whether this generation of consoles will be the last.