Næste år vil Xbox-konsollerne være 25 år gamle, og det er længe siden, at brandet blev skabt og kæmpede for at indtage sin plads ved bordet blandt Nintendo, Sega og Sony. Dengang lagde Microsoft og brandet en stor indsats i attitude, og i et interview med podcasten My Perfect Console blev Xbox-skaberen Seamus Blackley spurgt, om han tror, at den ånd stadig stadig bor i brandet i dag.
"No, but it's not supposed to. Today's Xbox is an edifice that is supposed to represent a stable good business place to put your new content. So, when you're operating a platform like that, you're trying to convince people who are going to release content that you're the right place for it. That means making them feel safe and making them feel like the risks they're taking are all creative and not business. And Phil [Spencer] does a good job with that. It's a difficult balance."
I interviewet afslører Blackley også, at han mener, at der er store ændringer på vej i konsolverdenen, herunder Nintendo og Sony:
"There's a lot of gamers out there and fans who say a lot of unfair crap about Xbox and PlayStation and Nintendo - although Nintendo seems to have this shield against being criticised too hard - but I assure you most of the people who work at Nintendo at one point worked at Xbox or PlayStation, it's the same guys. But, I think they're doing a good job. I really think they are doing a good job. And you know, there's a change coming - Phil's not going to be there forever... I think the bigger question is, what is to become of the hardware-based console model? Does it continue, does it decline, does it increase, is there more local compute, is there all remote compute in the future?"
Der er ingen tvivl om, at Phil Spencer ikke vil være på Xbox Game Studios for evigt, og vi kan kun spekulere i, hvad konsekvenserne vil være. Hvad synes du om fremtiden for konsoller i en tid, hvor pc'en bliver stadig vigtigere for konsolproducenterne?
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