Microsoft Is No Longer Making New Games For the Xbox One (engadget.com) 10
Microsoft says it is no longer making games for the Xbox One but will continue to support ongoing previous-generation titles like Minecraft and Halo Infinite. Engadget reports: "We've moved on to gen 9," Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty told Axios, referring to the Xbox Series X/S consoles. The company also makes its games for PC. This move had to happen at some point to avoid newer and more complex games being hamstrung by the hardware limitations of the decade-old Xbox One. Still, it'll be possible for those clinging onto an Xbox One to play Series X/S titles such as Starfield and Forza Motorsport through Xbox Cloud Gaming. "That's how we're going to maintain support," Booty said.
The move away from Xbox One will free Microsoft's teams from the shackles of the previous generation. However, some third-party developers have raised concerns that the Xbox Series S, which is less powerful than the Series X, is holding them back too. Booty conceded that making sure games run well on the Series S requires "more work." Still, he noted Microsoft's studios (particularly those working on their second games for this generation of consoles) are now able to better optimize their projects for the Series S.
The move away from Xbox One will free Microsoft's teams from the shackles of the previous generation. However, some third-party developers have raised concerns that the Xbox Series S, which is less powerful than the Series X, is holding them back too. Booty conceded that making sure games run well on the Series S requires "more work." Still, he noted Microsoft's studios (particularly those working on their second games for this generation of consoles) are now able to better optimize their projects for the Series S.
Had to happen everntually (Score:1)
This makes complete sense. Why even bother buying a newer game system if you can still play all the same games on your current system? I was happy Madden 23 was released for Xbox One last year but to do they still had an Xbox X only feature that is disabled for the Xbox one. Only a matter of time before this announcement was to be made really.
I imagine one day I'll eventually buy an Xbox X but not for numerous years and it to will be a refurbishment unless I can get a good deal on some rando promotion.
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Why even bother buying a newer game system if you can still play all the same games on your current system?
Don't worry, they have a solution for that. The DRM servers will be shut down eventually.
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I'm an oddball but I don't connect my system to the Internet. I play tons of single player games and have discs for all my games. While this isn't entirely a cure all, it's pretty good for all my current games. When I bought Madden 23 last year, I had to update my Xbox One in order to install Madden. It worked, this time.
I don't know that I will be buying any more NEW games for my system at this point. I'll probably buy more used games that predate Madden 23 though it definitely looks like the window for ga
Are they still allowing publishing to XBox One? (Score:2)
Is this just MS letting developers know that they don't want to publish XB1 games? Because if I was an indie studio, I would want to go for the lowest common denominator and since the Switch is already a valid hardware target, and with the XB1 being more powerful than Switch, releasing on the XB1 would give me the XSS/XSX market as well.
If I'm only releasing for *exclusively* the Series systems then I may as well skip all Xbox.
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Microsoft basically lost console war to Sony, and instead went for unified model where they instead make Windows SaaS model into a sort of jury-rigged gaming console. This enables them to gather the "store tax" from massive amount of windows 10 and 11 devices without the need to sell hardware at a loss.
Dropping support for oldest hardware in their unified SaaS consumer gaming business makes perfect sense in light of this.
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This is just Microsoft as a publisher that doesn't put out games for the old platform.
As long as they don't close the online store (Score:2)