Xbox made fairly the assertion throughout IGN Reside yesterday, displaying off a number of promising new initiatives that may hopefully reignite ardour for the model amongst customers, together with Gears of Battle: E-Day and Doom: The Darkish Ages. Nonetheless, instances have been tough for the corporate of late, with lawsuits and layoffs being high of the priorities record. So whereas Xbox definitely needs followers shopping for its software program for Xbox consoles, the corporate stays set on spreading the love throughout as many platforms it will possibly.
CEO Phil Spencer has as soon as once more reiterated how Xbox continues to wish to get its video games onto different platforms. He stated the next to IGN:
“You are going to see extra of our video games on extra platforms and we simply see that as a profit to the franchises we’re constructing and we see that from gamers and the gamers love to have the ability to play.”
Spencer additionally commented on the long-gestating rumors about an Xbox handheld. Right here’s what Spencer teased the followers with:
”The longer term for us in {hardware} is fairly superior. The work that the crew is doing round completely different type elements, other ways to play, I’m extremely enthusiastic about,” Spencer stated. “As we speak was concerning the video games… however we may have a time to return out and speak extra about platform, and we are able to’t wait to deliver it to you.”
Spencer additionally indicated that if a hypothetical Xbox handheld had been to be actual, having the ability to play past the constraints of the cloud can be important. “I feel having the ability to play video games regionally is actually necessary,” Spencer stated to IGN.
We all know that there have been rumbling about Name of Obligation coming to Change in some unspecified time in the future, however with Change 2 on the horizon, Microsoft would possibly have the ability to deliver any variety of new titles to Nintendo {hardware} within the not-so-distant future. We will proceed to report as we be taught extra about Microsoft’s cross-platform goals for the Xbox ecosystem.
Supply: IGN 1, IGN 2