{{
`${userDetail.user.displayName}${userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode ? `#${standardizeBungieGlobalCode(userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode)}` : ""}`}}
{{getUserClans()}}
3/1/2016 2:52:55 PM
19
Phil Spencer Announces Possibility of Xbox One Hardware Upgrades
During his Xbox Spring Showcase event keynote last week, Microsoft's head of Xbox Phil Spencer talked about future of "hardware innovation" for the console, similar to the ways PCs evolve.
In a speech to reporters, he said that the Xbox One could see a future in which it is upgraded, rather than replaced by new consoles. Spencer was talking about how Microsoft has sought to align its Windows 10 and Xbox One development activities under the internal "Universal Windows Platform" while offering backwards compatibility for many Xbox 360 games, now playable on Xbox One. He was addressing the concerns of some Xbox One owners that the exclusives destined for that console are appearing on PC, thus eroding the value of owning a console.
-
If anything it just means that the next xbox will have a proprietary external GPU attachment much like the proprietary HDD found on the xbox 360. At some point during the console generation they'll release a "stop-gap" upgrade to not only extend the duration of the console generation, but also to prevent what happened with this generation of consoles. By all means the PS4 and Xbone are both stop-gap consoles. From a business perspective it makes more sense to instead create a stop gap upgrade rather than a stop gap console. If they can release a simple upgrade instead of releasing an entire new system it will save them a lot of money because they won't have to sell it at a loss. As long as the base platform has a decent amount of longevity, a simple GPU upgrade 5 or so years into a console generation will extend the life of the console by quite a bit, especially if they opt for a more PC-like system in which the GPU and CPU have their own separate memory pool.
