A brand new report claims Xbox boss Phil Spencer advised staff that Microsoft has no plans to exit the console enterprise. This comes throughout a big on-line firestorm round Xbox and its future following rumors that some large exclusives may land on PlayStation 5.
Over the February 3 weekend, studies and rumors started to flow into that Xbox was planning (or a minimum of speaking about) bringing a few of its large exclusives to PlayStation. This included Bethesda’s newest RPG Starfield and third-person shooter franchise Gears of Warfare. “Passionate” Xbox followers initially dismissed the studies, however as extra people corroborated the data, even the Xbox insiders started to imagine. This led to plenty of panic and yelling on-line from diehard Xbox followers, console warriors, and influencers. Since then, a common sense of “What is going on at Xbox?” has shaped on-line. Even a reasonably innocuous GameStop promo picture set off a complete bunch of individuals. And now, evidently the (unlikely) state of affairs that Xbox would cease making consoles has been dominated out by the pinnacle exec of the model.
A current story from reporter Shannon Liao alleges Spencer held an inner city corridor assembly with Xbox staff on February 6, following the weekend studies of Xbox porting video games to PS5. In that assembly, he reportedly mentioned the corporate has no plans to cease making consoles and that Xboxes would proceed to be part of the corporate’s technique alongside different units.
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Apparently, Liao also reported on X/Twitter that Spencer didn’t affirm nor deny rumors that Starfield would go to different consoles, despite the fact that this assembly passed off after these studies cropped up.
Later this week, we are going to seemingly discover out if any of those rumors and studies of Xbox exclusives coming to different platforms are true. On February 5, the day earlier than the reported city corridor assembly, Spencer introduced {that a} “enterprise replace occasion” about the way forward for Xbox was coming quickly and that he could be sharing extra particulars then. Till that point, the Xbox trustworthy will simply have to carry on somewhat bit longer.
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