Microsoft’s extremely anticipated replace on the state of the Xbox enterprise — and whether or not Xbox exclusives are going multiplatform — might be revealed on Thursday, Feb. 15. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, Xbox president Sarah Bond, and head of Xbox Sport Studios Matt Booty promise to share updates on the Xbox enterprise within the type of a podcast, in accordance with a post on X from the official Xbox account.
Thursday’s “particular version of the Official Xbox Podcast” will out there to watch on YouTube “or wherever you hearken to your podcasts,” Microsoft mentioned. The podcast will go reside on Thursday at 3 p.m. EST/12 p.m. PST.
The dialogue between Spencer, Bond, and Booty will hopefully tackle roiling rumors and stories that numerous Xbox-exclusive video games, together with titles like Sea of Thieves, Hello-Fi Rush, Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, and Starfield, may be making their method to PlayStation and Nintendo consoles. Final week, Spencer addressed the flurry of rumors in a roundabout approach, promising concrete particulars about what’s subsequent for the Xbox model and platform.
“We’re listening and we hear you,” Spencer said on X. “We’ve been planning a enterprise replace occasion for subsequent week, the place we sit up for sharing extra particulars with you about our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Xbox. Keep tuned.”
The way forward for Xbox will reportedly nonetheless have a {hardware} part. In accordance with a report from the Updater publication, Spencer lately advised Microsoft workers at a city corridor assembly that there aren’t any plans to cease making Xbox consoles, a part of a method that includes “a number of sorts of units.”
Microsoft is already within the multiplatform recreation enterprise, because of acquired properties like Minecraft, Name of Responsibility, Diablo, and Overwatch. But when franchises usually related as Xbox-only, like Halo, Gears of Warfare, Forza, and Fable, are going to PlayStation and Nintendo consoles, it might sign a radical departure from Xbox’s previous. We’ll know extra on Thursday.