Despite a colleague saying that Project Scorpio will bring an end to console generations, head of Xbox, Phil Spencer has explained that Microsoft does not plan on releasing incrementally upgraded consoles every two years.
"I don’t have this desire to every two years have a new console on the shelf", he explained to Game Informer. "That’s not part of the console business model, and it doesn’t actually help us. The best customer I have is somebody who buys the original Xbox and just buys all the games. That’s the best customer for us in terms of the pure financials of it [...] I’m not trying to turn consoles into the graphics card market.
Spencer also explained that there are no set-in-stone plans beyond Project Scorpio - the Xbox upgrade touted as "the most powerful console ever made":
"To be completely honest, I don’t know what the next console is past Scorpio. We’re thinking about it. We’re looking at consumer trends and what the right performance spec and price would be, and [asking ourselves], 'Can we hit something that has a meaningful performance characteristic that a gamer would care about?'"
Questions have lingered about whether Microsoft will stick to its promise that there will be no Scorpio-exclusive games for Xbox One in the future, to which Spencer said "it’s not our plan, honestly", likening the need for games to run on both the original Xbox One and Scorpio to the standard practice of having both recommended and unbounded specifications for PC games.
Recently, Spencer tackled another concern, Scorpio's price - to which he said it "will feel like it’s a premium product, a premium console. And not something, anything more than that." Scorpio is due for release during Holiday 2017.
Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and Project Scorpio is the best film he never bought from a service station '3 for £5 DVD' rack. Follow him on Twitter.
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