The Redmond giant has confirmed that it is focused on the development of Xbox Nextthe next-generation console that will succeed the Xbox Series X, and we recently also saw that its project for the end of the year is not to launch an Xbox Series X Pro, but that the only major novelty we will see will be an Xbox Series X without an optical drive and a model with a 2 TB SSD.
Microsoft is not going to launch an Xbox Series X Pro, at least not in 2024, here’s something we can give almost confirmed, But why? It’s a good question, and the truth is that the answer is very simple, although to understand it better the ideal is to divide it into two keys. On the one hand we have the failure of Xbox Series X in the current generation, since It hasn’t even reached a 1 to 2 sales ratio with PS5.
If you think I’m exaggerating, ask yourself why Microsoft doesn’t differentiate between Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S sales, because keeping them as a single system allows it to to cover up the poor sales of the firstWe also talked about this topic recently when we saw that the Redmond giant had started to throw in the towel with its current generation of consoles.
El Game Pass It has been a successYes, and it’s a blast for both console and PC gamers, but that’s not what we’re talking about here, We are talking about consoles soldand in that sense Microsoft has taken a hit with Xbox Series X and Series S. It could have been worse, that’s also true, but the fact that with two systems you have only been able to sell less than half of what your rival does is not a cause for celebration, quite the opposite.
Secondly, it is necessary to take into account how complicated it is to develop a next-generation console. Moving away from an Xbox Series X Pro would be a wise move on Microsoft’s part because, given where it stands in the current-gen war, it’s not going to change anything, and because this allows it to centralize all of its efforts and resources on developing Xbox Next, its next-gen console.
What Xbox Next will be like and when it will arrive
We still don’t have any reliable information. Some pretty crazy rumors said that could use an Intel CPU and an NVIDIA GPUand it certainly wouldn’t be impossible as we already told you in this article, but it is very unlikely due to all the complications that a change of this type would entail for Microsoft, both at the level of architecture and development as well as costs, supply and maintenance of backward compatibility.
I think it’s most likely that Microsoft will repeat with AMD and use a Ryzen CPU and a Radeon GPU. For reasons of cost and integration, the most effective option would be to mount an APU again, which integrates both components on a single silicon chip, but I think we cannot rule out returning to a configuration with independent CPU and GPU, as we saw for example in PS3 and Xbox 360.
As for the launch, early rumors said that Microsoft could move the release of Xbox Next to 2026, but nothing is certain yet. I think it would be too early a date, especially since Sony is not supposed to launch PS6 until 2028, and this time difference could leave Xbox Next as an “obsolete” system. That’s why I’m more inclined to think that Microsoft will try to coincide with the Japanese firm so that the two consoles have similar hardware.
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