New Xbox Scarlett Console Officially Announced, Release Window Confirmed

When Ps4 and Xbox One came out, both companies were claiming this generation of consoles would last much longer than the previous gens because of how far graphics and computing power had come- they said there was little room left for improvement. I heard estimates of 2022, 2023 or later for the next gen of sony and microsoft. Turns out that was a bunch of mumbo jumbo hyping up the consoles at the time. This is a 7 year gap JUST like the ps3 and even shorter than the 8 years for xbox360. When it comes down to it, there is money to be made from selling new consoles, and suckers to eat it right up. As far as I'm concerned xbox one and ps4 are plenty powerful to be sony and Microsoft's main platforms for at least a few more years.

Also, who ever has said dIGitAl gaMEs ArE tEh FutURe... I prefer to be able to go back and play games I like several years later. Or resell a game at 2/3 retail price (before anyone says it I'm not talking about gamestop) if I cant see myself playing it again. The shift towards digital is a real shame. Y'all cant be bothered to eject a game and put another one in? smh

More interested in Stadia or XCloud. Time to get rid of the hardware and move towards the future.

Gamespot, why are you running this story again today 6/12 as if it just came out? This was on the site days ago. Always pushing already-printed stories to the front page days later

Such a difference between next gen and this one. Seems like they are doing everything right and moving forward with a bright future.

I have been fortunate enough to have purchased every console on launch day since the sega master system, including the XBOX, xbox 360, but not the xbox one (i waited a year and got it for $150 less). This news is very positive to me, because the strong anti-gamer policies Balmer (MS CEO) and Don Mattrick (Xbox Division CO), Adam Orth (idiot scape goat), Major Nelson (one who had to present this shitshow to the world). Mostly Don Mattrick though, who pushed 'games as a service' model, who helped destroy the incredibly bright, an strong future, and head wind, xbox had going from the 7th gen to the 8th gen. From always online, non used games and DRM policies that hurt more then they helped, mandatory kinect (even though motion sensing fad was quickly dieing), expensive launch price, and a launch itself that was mired in stupidity (Don Mattrick famously told Geoff Keighley that if Xbox fans wanted an Xbox console but they didn’t have an Internet connection they should just buy a 360).

Not to mention Sony did everything right at the launch of 8th gen. Especially behind the scenes stuff. They pretty much green lit and threw money at any developer or publisher making a game or new IP, to bring it to there system. This was different from Sony early 7th gen who killed off their first party developers, studios because they were sure that social games like farmville/ candy crush were going to be the only future. (anyone remember Zynga and farmville??). Meanwhile MS was pushing an even more insidious idea behind what 8th gen games were to be, games were to now be a service. This poorly effected Fable legends, gears of war, scalebound and many more, how ? why? Orders by Mattrick to push services, kinect integration into those games went against everything developers know about making and selling games. This delayed and hampered first party games across the board and without games all you have is a (social, live TV, media, all encompassing living room environment box..... oh yeah that does play games to i guess).

So far the environment feels alot better for xbox, which i am glad. We need strong competitive platforms for us gaming consumers. The gaming industry has never been as healthy- barring another global financial meltdown- this 9th gen should start off very well. I still wish MS would always start off any press conference with "and this amazing exclusive game is coming..." before ever mentioning anything about their hardware. Poor phil spencer was handed a turd sandwich but has did an incredible job of at least turning away from the iceberg, lets see how good of a launch he presides over.

Don't really care about Halo, to me the franchise ended when it left Bungie.

Original Xbox had 2 halos, 360 doubled that, and the One gets only Halo 5 guardians, a game that dissapointed me in story and forced coop only via online. That thing could have worked so well... and now they tell me this will be the only Halo on the One because infinite goes to scarlett? :(

I just hope I don't have to wait long for the PC version of infinite then.

More expensive electricity hogging equipment.

#Stadia

I wonder if there will be any interesting and innovative new titles, or just more of the same walk/talk/fight boring stuff that keeps me going back to the tower-defense, racing, puzzle and pinball genres.

10x more this and 5x more that... In other words, it's time again to give Sony and Microsoft another 500 bucks.

Day one buy.

Sony already announced PS5 will be capable of doing all of this. Where's the Scarlett's differentiator? I don't see a substantial difference between this and the current generation other than raw power.

And no demo.