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Gaming - 9th Gen in 2017? - View Post

Microsoft will not launch their new console in 2017. It is more likely they will never again launch a new console. Some reports state that they are testing bringing XBox games over to browsers, and their future probably lies in pushing gaming over to mobile/handheld/tablet Windows devices. They claim it is their core, and with the most of the world gaming on smartphones anyway seems to be a more plausible strategy.
XOne will likely coexist in that environment as a set-top entertainment box it was always envisioned to be, probably evolving to a more compact gaming/streaming setup at a lower price (approaching PSTV, Amazon Fire etc...)

Other than Nintendo, it is more and more likely there will be no Gen 9 consoles in the capacity we have grown used to over the past 25 years.