Microsoft’s extremely anticipated replace on the state of the Xbox enterprise — and whether or not Xbox exclusives are going multiplatform — might be revealed on Thursday, Feb. 15. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, Xbox president Sarah Bond, and head of Xbox Recreation Studios Matt Booty promise to share updates on the Xbox enterprise within the type of a podcast, based on a submit on X from the official Xbox account.
Thursday’s “particular version of the Official Xbox Podcast” will obtainable to observe on YouTube “or wherever you take heed to your podcasts,” Microsoft mentioned. The podcast will go reside on Thursday at 3 p.m. EST/12 p.m. PST.
The dialogue between Spencer, Bond, and Booty will hopefully tackle roiling rumors and experiences that numerous Xbox-exclusive video games, together with titles like Sea of Thieves, Hello-Fi Rush, Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, and Starfield, could be making their strategy to PlayStation and Nintendo consoles. Final week, Spencer addressed the flurry of rumors in a roundabout approach, promising concrete particulars about what’s subsequent for the Xbox model and platform.
“We’re listening and we hear you,” Spencer mentioned on X. “We’ve been planning a enterprise replace occasion for subsequent week, the place we look ahead to sharing extra particulars with you about our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Xbox. Keep tuned.”
The way forward for Xbox will reportedly nonetheless have a {hardware} element. Based on a report from the Updater e-newsletter, Spencer lately advised Microsoft workers at a city corridor assembly that there are not any plans to cease making Xbox consoles, a part of a method that entails “a number of sorts of gadgets.”
Microsoft is already within the multiplatform sport enterprise, because of acquired properties like Minecraft, Name of Responsibility, Diablo, and Overwatch. But when franchises sometimes related as Xbox-only, like Halo, Gears of Struggle, Forza, and Fable, are going to PlayStation and Nintendo consoles, it could sign a radical departure from Xbox’s previous. We’ll know extra on Thursday.
