Jez Corden: There are presently no plans to cancel any upcoming Xbox hardware.
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Trogdor1123
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Who plans to cancel something like hardware? Either you do, or you don't.
Anyone doing up hardware would have some kind of exit strategy but that's different than cancelation
Anyone doing up hardware would have some kind of exit strategy but that's different than cancelation
Bernardougf
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reinking
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I have zero sources and zero knowledge of what is going on. From the outside looking in, it looks like there is a major shakeup happening at Microsoft and things are moving fast. Promoting Judson Althoff, the Game Pass changes and all of the other noise appear to indicate that MS has shifted into a higher gear to get to where they want to be and they are not going to let something like the Xbox division slow them down.
I do believe Jez has some sources but I believe those are limited in both what they can share and when they can share it. I believe it puts him behind someone that might have knowledge of the real inner workings of what is going on. TBH, I am not sure MS knows 100% if they are, or are not, launching their next traditional console any longer. They did "shelf" the handheld they had been working on. This might turn into the same scenario where the traditional Xbox gets "shelved" while they leave it to an OEM (ASUS?) to launch an Xbox branded device. That is when we will know 100% it is over.
I do believe Jez has some sources but I believe those are limited in both what they can share and when they can share it. I believe it puts him behind someone that might have knowledge of the real inner workings of what is going on. TBH, I am not sure MS knows 100% if they are, or are not, launching their next traditional console any longer. They did "shelf" the handheld they had been working on. This might turn into the same scenario where the traditional Xbox gets "shelved" while they leave it to an OEM (ASUS?) to launch an Xbox branded device. That is when we will know 100% it is over.
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laynelane
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SneakersSO
said was that future hardware isn't a certainly. Jez's language in the tweet is similar - "right now", "presently no plans".
As well, Jez has a provable history of being wrong. He's not a great source due to that and also because of his noticeable bias towards MS.
As well, Jez has a provable history of being wrong. He's not a great source due to that and also because of his noticeable bias towards MS.
HeisenbergFX4
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Jez not saying anything here and almost exactly what Sneakers said, no plans for now to cancel anything = up in the air
Btw take it for what its worth I am back at 99% next gen is coming and has zero to do with what Jez has said.
Boarding plane soon
Btw take it for what its worth I am back at 99% next gen is coming and has zero to do with what Jez has said.
Boarding plane soon
laynelane
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Jez not saying anything here and almost exactly what Sneakers said, no plans for now to cancel anything = up in the air
Btw take it for what its worth I am back at 99% next gen is coming and has zero to do with what Jez has said.
Boarding plane soon
Yeah, it's like he tweeted just to be in the conversation/spotlight.
Bondo
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They lie about everything regardless.
I really dont see the point in a new console.
The brand is in spiral, and it has zero exclusives and compounded by the need to never really buy anything game wise.
To jump a generation early cause they are losing isnt going to work.
I really dont see the point in a new console.
The brand is in spiral, and it has zero exclusives and compounded by the need to never really buy anything game wise.
To jump a generation early cause they are losing isnt going to work.
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Topher
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People are free to discuss as they wish but when a titan of an industry insider like Jez Corden informs us that MS have no plans to cancel any upcoming Xbox hardware it is incumbent on all of us to listen.
Obviously some people will have their own motivations to cast aspersions on Jez's credibility. But for now anyone who is eagerly anticipating exciting next generation Xbox hardware can rest easily.
Moridianae
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Jez not saying anything here and almost exactly what Sneakers said, no plans for now to cancel anything = up in the air
Btw take it for what its worth I am back at 99% next gen is coming and has zero to do with what Jez has said.
Boarding plane soon
I believe you, but I'm seriously questioning how that's going to go over at this point with how things have been boiling over.
"Hey, Game Pass is $30 a month, etc snd our games are on PlayStation and Switch 2 but here's our next Gen console for $1000."
Don't see the masses responding to that well in this economy in the US. But maybe the masses are no longer their focus.
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Ass of Can Whooping
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GHG
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He's an industry titan, don't doubt him.
Moridianae
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diffusionx
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Jez is likely right there are no plans.
That doesn't mean there won't be when work starts tomorrow.
That doesn't mean there won't be when work starts tomorrow.
memoryman3
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Full article from Jez.
www.windowscentral.com
No, Xbox's next gen console hardware plans aren't cancelled — for now, but it's a problem that it was really easy to believe
Rumors are swirling that Xbox is going to kill its hardware ecosystem. It's not true ... for now, but it easily could've been true, given how nonsensically Xbox acts lately.
www.windowscentral.com
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Xbox feels like it has been dead for years and years already. I am struggling to give a shit. Their first party stinks. If Xbox hardware goes away, what changes? Less games like South of Midnight and Outer Worlds? More people like this getting laid off?
Ok, your terms are agreeable.
Ok, your terms are agreeable.
laynelane
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People are so panicked they're turning on their own. I imagine it's a shit show on Twitter right now.
GHG
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They are in-fighting now. Looking for anyone to blame but the people in charge at Xbox.
dragonyeuw
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I'm shocked Halo MCC hasn't been announced yet. I was actually expecting that to be a Switch 2 launch window title.
2 years later we have
- Forza
- Gears of War
- Sea of Thieves
- Hellblade
- Age of Empires
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Pentiment
- Grounded
Bernardougf
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ecosse_011172
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I really enjoyed South of Midnight and Outer Worlds was decent.
/Shrug
Xbox is still a dumpster fire but I wish we had more games like South of Midnight, it's flawed, but trying to be a little bit different, with gorgeous visuals and not too long.
More AA stuff like this please.
I dunno about cancellations - but at least the Series3DO sounded kind of novel/fresh (as opposed to the last 2 'generation' launches - including the one that just happened this summer) - but that seems to be rejected at large by folks in the know so
Ie. is it really nexgen anymore when all we're getting is smaller and smaller hw increments and stalled software innovation?
Put it another way - if MS again brings a 'this device plays your old games better' - they might as well cancel it instead of burning the money. Unlike their competitors - their audience interested in that is vanishingly small and was too small 5 years ago already.
There is never any plan. Until there is. Corporate execs publicly will always say everything is going well right up until the day they announce the cancellation.
It seems like some people have never seen a company shut down a product line or retire a brand. Because this is exactly how it looks.
It seems like some people have never seen a company shut down a product line or retire a brand. Because this is exactly how it looks.
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Not disagreeing diversity of this kind is the better part of gaming - but is there a need for a console box for these to exist? MS can keep funding them on other hw ecosystems just like many other pubs do.
The thing that actually gets lost is halo-products like Senua's Saga - but it's not like MS has had much of a track record there for past 15 years.
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The reason why so much effort is being poured into maintaining the charade (It is only 4 games) is because there's a 10 -20 Million userbase of very diehard users who all have an absurdly high likelihood of maintaining their higher tiers of GP subscriptions through this. They want to maintain that revenue stream as long as possible while they, over time, restructure Xbox into a far leaner endeavour that focuses on a handful of mega projects.
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MS, through this disgusting fat guy, Jez, is tricking you into continuing to pay for gamepass to them even though the platform is dying.
Wake up man, you are being manipulated by Microsoft and their Astroturfing
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Moses85
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IllegalLemon
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Kinda hard to trust the dude that threw a fit and long tantrum, when the CMA initially blocked Microsoft's acquisition of ABK back in 2022 and then somehow decided it was a good idea to behave like a manchild over the whole situation. That was a career defining moment for him, when it was revealed what kind of personality was truly hiding underneath the twitter persona and those flashy YouTube podcasts. Hard to take him seriously anymore. I guess the whole slate/Project Latitude situation was just hard hopium for the fanboys apparently. Can't even be an actual man and face his own mistakes with the whole third party thing blowing up in his face.
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