With the introduction of its next-gen console expected this holiday season, the company has promised it won’t be dropping support for the Xbox One – not “over the next year, two years”, anyway.
Until now, the release of a new console gen has been the end of the previous console gen. But Microsoft is doing things different this time, marketing its Xbox Series X as the next in a “family of devices”, much like a PC hardware upgrade, that won’t make the Xbox One entirely obsolete in the immediate future.
Talking to MCV, Xbox Game Studios boss Matt Booty explains that buying an Xbox One in 2020 definitely isn’t a waste of cash.
As our content comes out over the next year, two years, all of our games, sort of like PC, will play up and down that family of devices. We want to make sure that if someone invests in Xbox between now and [Series X] that they feel that they made a good investment and that we’re committed to them with content.
This includes Xbox One Series X marquee launch games like Halo Infinite will also be available on Xbox One consoles, an almost unprecedented event in console gen history.
Since 2018, Microsoft has acquired a number of development studios, including Obsidian, inXile, and Ninja Theory, boosting its prospects for future Xbox first-party games in comparison with the limited and somewhat drab exclusives of the Xbox One gen.