Although the future looks increasingly digital, there are rumors that Xbox boss Phil Spencer is planning the opposite.

This is a strange situation, especially for Microsoft, since several retail chains in the United States have decided to stop selling Xbox games on disk, and there have been rumors of this happening in Europe as well. Let’s not forget that the Xbox Series S, the base model of the current generation of consoles (Microsoft itself claims this; the Xbox Series X is treated as a half-generation update…), does not have a Blu-ray drive, so you can only buy and download games digitally from the Microsoft Store…

Shannon Liao, an insider, wrote on her own blog that Spencer is reportedly reassuring his employees about the future of the company. She writes that the man who revived the Xbox brand (his predecessor Don Mattrick had the opposite idea…) does not want to give up console manufacturing, so Microsoft does not want to go the way of SEGA (they were last on the market with the Dreamcast; its initial success was quickly overturned by the PS2, which was essentially a great DVD player). It was also rumored this week that the smaller next-gen Xbox could be a dockable Nintendo Switch clone, running games locally…

Spencer also said publicly this week that he has heard the voices of the people and that we will hear Microsoft’s plans at a business update event next week, which will shed light on the future of the Xbox brand, which, it is claimed, will not exclude console manufacturing. Other rumors suggest that some games will become multiplatform, but there is also talk that they will not all be on the PlayStation 5, for example, and we will come back to that later today.

According to a YouTube user, Moore’s Law is Dead, the next generation Xbox will not be released until after PlayStation 6, as Microsoft is said to have signed a deal with AMD only in January this year, so this company will once again be responsible for both Sony and Microsoft’s processors and graphics chips…

Source: WCCFTech

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