Xbox head Phil Spencer responds to a fan who asked about the future of Xbox and let it be known that Microsoft is already looking past Project Scorpio, which releases next year.
Microsoft’s Project Scorpio won’t be out until 2017 but that isn’t stopping the company from thinking even further into the future about what might come next. That’s the takeaway Xbox boss Phil Spencer gave Thursday in response to a question from a fan on Twitter.
For the uninitiated, Project Scorpio is an upgraded, more powerful version of Xbox One, first announced by Microsoft at E3 2016. Spencer has previously gone on record saying that Scorpio won’t shorten this console generation’s life cycle because it’s still technically an Xbox One, just more powerful. All games that run on Project Scorpio must be playable and have the same key features on Xbox One, according to Microsoft’s requirements for developers.
On Thursday, a Twitter user tweeted at Spencer and asked if Project Scorpio will be the last console generation for Xbox. The fan might have been responding to the comments made by Xbox marketing executive Aaron Greenberg earlier this week, in which he said that the idea of a console generation, as it is traditionally known, might be over.
Spencer responded that the Xbox team is already working on ideas for what might come after Project Scorpio, giving credit as well to the gaming industry’s creators and early adopters.
