Microsoft Wants to Create a Future Without/Beyond Generations.

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killeryoshis said:
Sounds like they are turning the XBox into a Computer. You will probably have to upgrade every once in awhile. However unlike PC you will not replace parts of it but rather the whole thing. They seem to want to follow the phone strategy. That is where you replace your console after a few years. Makes sense since Smartphones are literally handheld computers. Microsoft is a PC company. So making their console more PC to fit the company makes sense.

That's pretty much what Xbox has always been, but now it's become less hidden.

I always assumed the Xbox One and PS5 would be backwards compatible with the previous gens.  But seeing how Windows 10, is going to be stable for the next x number of years, it makes since.

They want people to keep everything on Window and DirectX, that way you can skip the gens, when you get a new console and only have one or two games to play, and just increase your hardware power and enjoy new games, or your old games the same or better.

It’s going to be a while before a new major changes in Windows and some major hardware innovations before I think we see DirectX 13.  Or they may just keep innovating DX12.  We shall see.