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Imaginedvl on 23 February 2024
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JRPGfan said:

That was from Sarah bond likely.

Xbox president Sarah Bond teased that Microsoft will deliver “the largest technical leap” with the next-generation Xbox and mentioned:

"We’ve got more to come. There’s some exciting stuff coming out in hardware that we’re going to share this holiday. " - sarah bond



https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/24073723/microsoft-xbox-next-gen-hardware-phil-spencer-handheld

Update, February 21st 7:15PM ET: Article updated to note that references to new Xbox hardware was removed from Microsoft’s blog post before it was posted publicly.

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https://www.neogaf.com/threads/microsoft-removes-references-of-new-xbox-hardware-from-blogpost.1667580/


Now its got people debateing weither this means MS is not sure about new hardware, or if its just the "this holidays" part.

The messageing is bad as always.


You got people going into panic mode again saying things like:

"You’re in denial if you can’t see all the signs:
-Hardware has stopped being made;
-MS removed reference of future hardware coming;
-Xbox has already started being rebranded to Microsoft Gaming;
-Games are officially going third party."  - bitbydeath


That assume MS isnt all on the same page, about new hardware for xbox.
The "hardware has stopped being made" is apparently from factories in china, where parts for the xbox series consoles have shut down for now.
Likely because they made more than they have sold, and dont want them to continue to pile up in warehouses.  Even PS5 was rumored to have turned down production, after these holidays so.... yeah grain of salt, but its there.


Bitbydeath got quouted with this:

"They literally removed the XBX/S logos off all their games branding (and off the Game Pass branding), and ordered stores to remove physical games and trash them (that have that Xbox Series branding) at MS's own expense.

And the only way to get physical for "4 of the most beloved fan favorites" coming to the largest console platforms, is left up to LRG to provide.

How are people not seeing this?"

"Not to mention Blade was announced without platforms, which is even more interesting now that we know they were in active development of PS5 ports at the time of that announcement (SOT, HiFi Rush, Etc)

And there is a job listing posted by 343 to develop the next Halo for "all players on all platforms."

Pentiment labled as from Micosoft Games studios (not xbox)
Remember the Microsoft Game-pass thingy? (ei. ditching xbox branding)



Right now, it doesn't take much for people to read into things.
Xbox should just be super clear in its messageing.
Instead it looks so messy from the outsides.

Can we stop people from posting this? I mean, seriously, this is now getting completely ridiculous; either the media or most people that have no interest in Xbox in the first place keep coming up with that shit. OH WAIT, THERE IS A DOT THAT DISAPPEARED FROM ONE OF THEIR BLOG... Something is up; let's go crazy and start conspiracy theories about Microsoft selling their Xbox division to Craft Diner; it must be that. Let's start some articles and rumors about it.

The business update was clear, and as straightforward as it could be. They are working on the next-generation consoles AND something for this generation. There is no "maybe."... 
People keep coming up with that bullshit and this is tiring at this point, don't you have anything else to do? Play Station has some news, or there is Final Fantasy 7 coming out soon; play the damn demo several times instead of posting that kind of crap.

There is nothing in Xbox last messenging that is NOT clear, anything is just people like you or the medias trying to get some clicks and finding things where there is nothing...

- GamePass is NOT going away just because they updated freaking game page and made it simpler by just writing "consoles/PC" instead of SPECIFIC things like "Xbox Series X/S", nothing there.

- Starfield/Indiana Jones: No, there is NO plan actually to port those things to another console—end of story. The rest is just people making up stuff or even coming up with BS like, "But you never know, maybe in the future, they will. "... Okay, lol, and maybe in the future, Play Station will become a third party, or maybe Nintendo will start selling fridges... I mean, yeah, if we go with the "if or maybe", anything can become "real" right? After all nobody can say that something is 100% certain about anything. But starting rumors about that is getting tiring at this point.

- All Activision/Blizzard games will be DAY 1 on GamePass in the future, including Call of Duty. Nothing in what Microsoft communicated says otherwise. Not a single word.

- Xbox is NOT exiting the hardware business. They are working on a new generation Xbox, and it will have a big leap over the current one (you may argue about how big a leap is, but it is that simple). Anything else is just BS people are making up because they have nothing else to do lately and it brings some clicks.

- Xbox IS going to announce some cool stuff about current-gen hardware (refresh, new controllers, w/e that is, this holiday). CLEAR.

Last edited by Imaginedvl - on 23 February 2024