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[Update: Former PlayStation chief, Andrew House, has been talking about the future of consoles at GamesBeat Summit in California recently
Though House wasn't willing to go into specifics on the next PlayStation itself, he did say that he thinks physical media will be around for
all consoles for some time to come, thanks to the need to continue breaking into new markets
firm knowledge on this, but my sense is that you will see the disc around in the industry for a while
ties neatly with Microsoft's Phil Spencer's who emphasised the need for a 'Netflix for video games.' This would be, one would imagine, a
natural extension of the download-based Xbox Game Pass in the next generation.]It's been five years sine the release of the Xbox One and
displeasure at high price points, poorly communicated initiatives and an ill-received design, Microsoft's decision to listen to its fans
and be more transparent about its intentions has been a positive one
Now, Xbox One S consoles are reasonably priced, looking sleek and selling better than ever
released every five to six years, we may have to get used to incremental improvements to hardware every two to three years instead
improvements doesn't mean no new console designs, though
that we can expect to see the console any sooner than 2019
According to Corden, 2 years would be too soon to expect the new console but it would likely still be backwards compatible with the rest of
that Microsoft would let Sony launch a brand new console without answering with its own within a year, but we don't think the company would
console is the Xbox One X
If X were to be read as ten, the next console would be the Xbox One II or Xbox II (2)
gaming and near-PC power into a console
It's currently the most powerful console on the market so where can Microsoft go from hereWe can only imagine
of lessons from the difficult launch of the Xbox One
ended up being marred by a Kinect bundle that pushed its price way higher than it should have been.As a result, the PlayStation 4 took (and
In fact, Microsoft's gone so far as to drop the Kinect port entirely
iterative and a tiered model
The company is not only launching incrementally better pieces of hardware over time, but it's also supporting previous versions of the
console and allowing them to exist as budget options.As a case in point, the One X is still expensive (much more so than the PS4 Pro), but
the Xbox One S is still being presented as a worthy and attractively priced 4K upscaling alternative that will still be capable of playing
all the same games, not just from this generation but the previous generation too.However, after each console has had its chance at being
the budget model, they've each fallen away into obscurity
We've already seen this with the original Xbox One, and it's likely that the Xbox Two will eventually have the same effect on the Xbox One
S.We imagine Microsoft may want a certain degree of market saturation for the Xbox One X (or at the very least 4K TVs) before launching the
certain things are unimportant for consoles this generation, like motion-sensing and touch-screen, but the new technologies like VR and AR
are proving to be very exciting fields for developers.Microsoft has already confirmed that the Xbox One X will support Windows 10 virtual
developing the technology for its successor
Xbox Two could very well be the HoloLens console
If the technology flops, Microsoft can easily phase it out from its next generation plans like the Kinect but much more neatly and less to
greatest audio visual technologyRecently Microsoft has been really keen on integrating the latest audio visual technologies into its
consoles - Dolby Atmos support, 4K and HDR are all here
With something like this, Xbox Two has the potential to be an immersive gaming machine and we already know technology of a similar ilk was
being considered in the Illumiroom project from back in 2013.An increasingly cross-platform ecosystemIn the way that Nintendo is bridging
the gap between its handheld and home console divisions with the Switch, we can see Microsoft moving its PC and console users closer as we
games first and doesn't confuse the customer
consumer base doesn't jibe with mid-lifecycle console upgrades, perhaps a more PC piecemeal approach with more swappable parts will be in
This would be eight years after the release of the original Xbox One and a good time, perhaps, to move onto the new generation
It'd also be around the time, or one year after, analysts are expecting Sony to release the PlayStation 5.With the steady and considered
steps Microsoft is making and the way the company seems to be listening to feedback from its users more than ever, we anticipate that the
Xbox Two could be its most considered launch yet
In the meantime, a lot hinges on the Xbox One X.We've also done some speculating about the future of the PlayStation, check out everything
