One week later, it looks like Microsoft is already breaking a big promise with Xbox Series X

[Koba St]

Did Microsoft convince you that you wouldn’t need next-gen hardware to play Xbox Series X games? Think again: fully half of the next-gen games that Microsoft showcased at its Xbox Series X showcase today, including Forza, probably aren’t coming to Xbox One.

In fact, the company explicitly promised that its own in-house, first-party games won’t require you to buy the new Series X console for two years. Here’s Xbox boss Phil Spencer just last week:

You won’t be forced into the next generation. We want every Xbox player to play all the new games from Xbox Game Studios. That’s why Xbox Game Studios titles we release in the next couple of years—like Halo Infinite—will be available and play great on Xbox Series X and Xbox One. We won’t force you to upgrade to Xbox Series X at launch to play Xbox exclusives.”

And here’s what Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty told MCV in January (bolding ours):

“As our content comes out over the next year, two years, all of our games, sort of like PC, will play up and down that family of devices,” Booty explains. “We want to make sure that if someone invests in Xbox between now and [Series X] that they feel that they made a good investment and that we’re committed to them with content.”

Heck, here’s a third version of the promise from March, again with additional bolding:

We’re making the commitment to use Smart Delivery on all our exclusive Xbox Game Studios titles, including Halo Infinite, ensuring you only have to purchase a title once in order to play the best available version for whichever Xbox console they choose to play on.

But during today’s Xbox Games Showcase, first-party titles Forza Motorsport,Fable, Avowed, As Dusk Falls, Everwild and State of Decay 3 were all listed as coming to Xbox Series X and Windows PC specifically — with no Xbox One support and no Smart Delivery feature. Again, these are all games published by Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, and almost all created by developers that Microsoft owns.

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It looks like Microsoft is already breaking a big promise with Xbox Series X

Nice to see the industry finally waking up to Phil Spencer and his lies.

 

[Diondon]

Phil is a liar and a hippy

 

[ORDER_66]

Wow..

 

[Wiles]

The console war is over for nex gen before it starts

 

[old pig]

sony across the belly...

 

[Koba St]

And it continues.

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

And it continues.

are they cross gen or not?
they saying Halo is cross gen which is OBVIOUS
so some of the exclusives they showed will be on the xbox one too or all of them?

 

[Koba St]

are they cross gen or not?
they saying Halo is cross gen which is OBVIOUS
so some of the exclusives they showed will be on the xbox one too or all of them?

I don’t think even they know the answer to that.

 

[Grand Conde]

@mods change the thread title to 'Phil Spencer is full of shyt' - OT, we got to keep track of this lying motherfukker.

 

[Mowgli]

Sony like PS4 dead in November holla.

 

[Hey_zeus]

 

[levitate]

Well, you can play on the PC right?

 

[Kaydigi]

That’s wild if it’s true

 

[gtj1982]

The thing is this is actually good that they drop the X1 but on the other hand good guy Phil tried to paint Sony as the bad guy for making next gen exclusives. Won't bring up the Larry stans

 

[Koba St]

The thing is this is actually good that they drop the X1 but on the other hand good guy Phil tried to paint Sony as the bad guy for making next gen exclusives. Won't bring up the Larry stans

Exactly. Putting early games on both the previous console as well as the new console is not a new thing. It’s been done throughout the generations but Microsoft tried to make it look like it was some new shyt they were inventing whilst trying to paint Sony as anti consumer and its blown up in their faces.