I can't stop freaking out about people's imagination... And my head explodes when I see people here accepting and embracing meaningless theories and speculations from a random Twitter user like these are accomplished facts.
Please, MS has an entire XBOX hardware division working (in fact they can't stop congratulating themselves and being proud of the work they are doing behind the scenes on Twitter).
They very recently placed Jason Ronald (the Beard) as head of hardware and have named Sarah Bond presidenta of XBOX hardware. And P. Spencer a few weeks ago confirmed the development and roadmap of new Xbox console hardware.....
Can anyone in their right mind think that all of this is a smokescreen and that now they have paralyzed everything and left the creation of hardware to third parties?
Do you know the amount of requirements, investment, logistics and capacity necessary to be able to meet millions of requests for a product?
What hardware company is going to see business in something like this when the PC simply exists?
Do you think MS would agree to be responsible for third-party hardware and the difficulties of maintaining the security of those devices? I am clear that the desire of some to see Xbox disappear clouds their vision and they stop reasoning. Or they simply have no interest in reasoning.
Its what came out in the FTC case MS saying something in reply to the dual sku approach that they wanted to be even more flexible moving forward
But something that has been repeated
It was not specifically that. And of course in that meeting described in the FTC docs it was not the "flexibility" what the OP is implying....
-In that meeting, P. Spencer was asked about his plans for the next generation of console hardware. Someone suggests that getting closer to the PC/Apple model by launching continuous hardware updates without limiting yourself to "generations" might be a good opportunity.
-Then P. Spencer answers that it is not that easy. Firstly because the developers and Studios prefer not to have to deal with many versions and optimizing would be a problem.
That with XSS and XSX they have already opted for a more flexible model and that that would be their line also for the next Xbox console, although perhaps they could expand that flexibility...
There is nothing there comparable to leaving what is being suggested in this thread.