Not everyone believes in Redmond that the regular console upgrades, starting with the Xbox One X, could be a good idea.

The senior director of product management and planning of Xbox, Albert Penello, told Wired the following:

„We had to think hard because obviously, I didn’t know the PS4 Pro existed when the team got together and started conceiving of Xbox One X, but I know what we thought about.

We’re on eight console generations since 1977 – or you can go back further to ’74 when the Magnavox Odyssey came out – and it’s always worked one way. We’re introducing a new way, and we have got to think through every part, from the developer to the customer, to naming, to messaging and how we tell the story and make sure that we respect what’s awesome about consoles when we introduce this idea. That’s why I like to talk about things like the ports on the back of the box – it’s a silly point, but it’s a testament to how much care we put in. All the ports are in the same place [on X as on S] and use the same cables so that if you’re going to upgrade, you just reach in back swap cables, and I’ve upgraded. We’re not doing different packages or names, and we didn’t do a new controller – those were all very thoughtful things about trying to ease customers into this new idea.

I don’t want to break consoles; I love console gaming. I don’t want to go to a new console system every year either, I don’t think anybody wants to do that, but who knows what kind of new technologies people are going to think up.”

Penello’s words mean that Microsoft seems to understand: people don’t want to just leave behind the traditional console generation model. A bombshell for the end: Shawn Layden told German Golem.de that instead of using a „smartphone upgrade model,” they are working on the PlayStation 5!