During an interview with TBPN, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella covered a variety of topics but to gamers, his comments on the future of Xbox, or lack thereof, that had Xbox console fans concerned for the future of the platform.
What should put gamers at ease, is that he mentioned gaming and console in the same sentence multiple times. Referring to the strategy going forward, Nadella said:
“We’re going to be everywhere in every platform. So we want to make sure whether it’s consoles, whether it’s the PC, whether it’s mobile, whether it’s cloud gaming, or the TV. So we just want to make sure the games are being enjoyed by gamers everywhere. Second, we also want to do innovative work in the system side on the console and on the PC.
And it’s kind of funny that people think about the console PC as two different things. We built the console because we wanted to build a better PC which could then perform for gaming. And so I kind of want to revisit some of that conventional wisdom. But at the end of the day, console has an experience that is unparalleled.
It delivers performance that’s unparalleled. That pushes, I think, the system forward. So I’m really looking forward to the next console, the next PC gaming. But most importantly, the game business model has to be where we have to invent maybe some new interactive media as well. Because after all, gaming’s competition is not other gaming.“
Source: TBPN
