Det har länge ryktats att Microsoft filar på en Xbox-konsol avsedd för streamade spel, utöver redan utannonserade Scarlett. När Xbox-chefen Phil Spencer tillfrågades om detta i samband med en intervju hosGamespot, sade han dock rakt ut att så inte är fallet:
"Last year we talked about xCloud and then we said we were working on new game consoles, but that's all I said. We didn't say that [a streaming console was in the works]. I think maybe some people thought that that was the disc-less one that we just shipped. We are not working on a streaming-only console right now. We are looking at the phone in your pocket as the destination for you to stream, and the console that we have allows you to play the games locally.
I think that the cloud inevitability as part of gaming is absolutely true. But we have more compute devices around us than we've ever had, whether it's your phone, a Surface Hub, or an Xbox. The world where compute devices are gone and it's all coming from the cloud just isn't the world that we live in today."
Däremot jobbar Microsoft som bekant på ersättaren till Xbox One, Xbox Scarlett, vilken kommer sent nästa år. Deras stream-tjänst xCloud drar däremot igång de officiella beta-testerna i oktober.
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