A cascade of confidential Microsoft documents leaked overnight, detailing the company’s Xbox plans for the coming years.
Along with emails detailing the likes of a potential eye on acquiring Nintendo and a Series X/S refresh for 2024, the leak also revealed Microsoft’s plans to release a new next-generation console in 2028.
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The leaked slides, as seen below, show Microsoft has its next-gen console planned for in five years time. It will support “cloud hybrid games”, and is currently described as an “immersive game and app platform”.
A mention of cloud hybrid gaming is eye-opening, as it evokes memories of Microsoft’s past efforts to portion off parts of a console’s processing power to remote hardware and the ambitious plans it once had to do this with Crackdown 3’s physics.