Welp, So Much For That Generationless Market

[Trunkin]

thismeintiel said:

Trunkin said:
I think what M$ means when they say "generations" are over should be pretty clear at this point. There will come a time when the Xbox One will become obsolete, but all future Xboxes for the foreseeable future will continue to be able to play old XBone games.

That would be B/C, which is nothing new.  For there to be a true generationless market, systems would also have to be forward compatible, as in when the PS5 launches you can buy a PS5 game and the disc will still work in a PS4, only with downgraded visuals.  Highly doubt this will happen.  At most, they may make it where the DS4 fully functions on the PS5.

Yes, they're mainly talking about B/C spanning multiple generations, and a shared OS across all their devices. There will be a degree of forward compatibility, but ultimately there will be a time when the Xbox One can no longer run newer AAA games -- it's inevitable. That happens with PC, and with smartphones; two other examples of "generationless" markets. I think M$'s ultimate goal is for software to be tied more to the OS than the hardware it's running on. They're talking about ending generations as (they think) we see them today, which typically results it a total reset at the beginning of each generation. What M$ wants to hold on to their existing playerbase over multiple console releases by limiting fragmentation of their playbase, not to stifle technological progress, which would be the only way to keep OG XBone relevant forever.