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Phil Spencer hints at optional hardware upgrades for Xbox One

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Xbox head Phil Spencer hinted that the manufacturer will offer optional hardware upgrades for the Xbox One in the future. Speaking at the Xbox spring showcase event on February 25, Spencer said that Microsoft plans to make the Xbox One more like a PC. Spencer added:

“We can effectively feel a little bit more like we see on PC, where I can still go back and run my old Doom and Quake games that I used to play years ago…When you look at the console space, I believe we will see more hardware innovation in the console space than we’ve ever seen. You’ll actually see us come out with new hardware capability during a generation allowing the same games to run backward and forward compatible because we have a Universal Windows Application running on top of the Universal Windows Platform that allows us to focus more and more on hardware innovation without invalidating the games that run on that platform.”

The upgradable console seems to be the direction Microsoft wants the Xbox One to go. While these plans might not materialize this generation, this is definitely where Microsoft will go in the future. The upgradable console is important as existing games could run on the new hardware as well as new experiences that come out in the future.

I’m guessing that the Xbox One will get a major revision that adds a modular design. Users will be able to replace certain parts of the Xbox One with new parts that Microsoft sells them. This is definitely exciting and will definitely make consoles more competitive with what we find on PC. If they’re able to simply the upgrade process, people would flock to this new device. However, this seems like a distant goal and we’ll see what the future holds.

Source: The Verge

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