Phil Spencer promises his employees that they will not stop making Xbox consoles

With major changes to Microsoft’s Xbox business widely rumored to be officially announced next week, it looks like some internal damage control needs to be done already.

journalist Shannon Lia also reported Last Tuesday, Xbox held a town hall meeting where Phil Spencer assured employees that they will not leave the console hardware market and will continue to push Xbox hardware forward. Xbox’s strategy continues to use “multiple device types,” he said.

How do you get to the point where you have to make sure the Xbox people keep making Xbox hardware? This is part of the idea that Microsoft will continue to focus less on console sales, even more so than before, and instead pursue an “Xbox everywhere” philosophy. This includes consoles, PCs and mobile devices that can play through the cloud. According to rumors, PlayStation and Nintendo consoles will also now be included to a certain extent.

Next week’s announcement seems intended to launch this vision, but it doesn’t look like Microsoft will actually do so A Your games Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of ​​Thieves seem almost certain, but a rumor about Starfield has recently been debunked by some sources, while others about games like Indiana Jones and Gears of Wars are under consideration. Published on multiple platforms.

The concern was that if Microsoft relied largely on third parties, there would be little reason to continue making Xbox hardware, which was already outsold by the PS5 for the second year in a row by a 2:1 ratio, as Phil Spencer said. Specifically stated that Xbox has effectively lost a console war to Sony. Microsoft hasn’t announced official Xbox sales in years, but it also stopped reporting Game Pass subscriptions.

The most likely answer to what Spencer is coming up with is that Microsoft will keep the Xbox indefinitely as a hardware option for those who want the easiest access to play all Microsoft games on a dedicated device on day one of the dedicated device release. Television. That’s their functionality now, and even if more games come out elsewhere that shouldn’t change, so it makes sense that they won’t ditch the console division entirely. However, not yet.

But that the matter should have been addressed in an internal town hall shows how much uncertainty there is, even within the company, not to mention fans trying to guess what’s going on from the outside. Now that the weekend is approaching, we still don’t have a date and time for the “Xbox Business Update” that Microsoft has promised next week, but we should find out soon.

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