speakme with The Guardian, Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, shot down the proposal that he's attempting to turn computer game enthusiasts into console gamers, or vice versa, with their new Xbox Play any place feature, which offers Xbox One and comp uting device models of the equal online game for one price. instead, Microsoft sees how fit computing device gaming is at the moment and the way a lot of their users own play on both platforms, and they are looking to give each person choice.
Spencer then persisted by citing Sony – who has a massive lead over them in the PS4 vs Xbox One console race – announcing that Microsoft's Play anyplace method has nothing to do with them:
Sony is doing totally smartly with the PS4 but they're doing whatever fundamentally distinct from us. We're not building a methodology in response to what they're doing, we're constructing a response to what I see shoppers and gamers asking us for.
playstation President Andrew house made a identical remark last month from Sony's facet of issues, saying, "[…] we don't see [Microsoft's emphasis on PC/Xbox cross-play] as in reality effecting or prompting any exchange in our idea procedure or approach. we have all the time tended to accept as true with that a proprietary ecosystem offering a really neatly crafted unified customer adventure is how to go, and that form of is still our strategy."
on the conclusion of The Guardian interview, Spencer said how consoles appeared like they have been death 5 years ago. "Now, Sony's doing tremendously neatly, we've offered extra Xbox Ones than we sold 360s at this aspect in the technology, and Nintendo is getting able to discuss NX," he brought. "You comprehend, the console business is awfully, very healthy at this time."
[supply: The Guardian by means of GameSpot]
