Technology
Monday June 15, 2015
Microsoft announcement at E3
The announcement came as part of the exhibition E3 in Los Angeles.
Microsoft Monday gave a small but significant step backwards that will mark the immediate future of its Xbox One console, allowing compatibility games the previous model, Xbox 360, with its next-generation device.
The ad, though hardly cutting edge, it is important for the video game industry and is set to propel commercially Xbox One , whose sales (10 million units) they are far from those of his great rival, PlayStation 4 (over 22 million), which already offered that option.
The head of the Xbox division of Microsoft, Phil Spencer , was commissioned to deliver the news in the auditorium Galen Center in Los Angeles, filled to overflowing for the traditional presentation of Xbox on the eve of the E3 video game trade show, and the thunderous ovation measured in decibels the scope of the measure.
The issue of the incompatibility of the game was a slab weighing on Xbox One since its debut in November 2013, and users had been widely recorded that in messages addressed to Microsoft which confirmed Spencer, He began work last year to come up with a solution.
Looking ahead to next Christmas, there will be only 100 Xbox 360 titles, to which hundreds more will be added in the coming months, you will be treated free of charge on Xbox One, and with the performance of the console who had already bought the games to 360.
Cobra that way, if anything, more sense for Microsoft repeated in recent days message, and repeated several times today, regarding which this year reaches E3 with “the best catalog of games” in its history.
The strategic decision is best understood the popularity of Xbox 360 versus the Xbox One was compared.
To date, they have sold 80 million consoles 360, but just 10 of the latest model, indicating that many players who relied on the first device considered that the advantages of the new were not enough to make the investment in new hardware, or were more disadvantages.
Resolved barrier to migration of the games is expected that sales of Xbox One will accelerate ahead of the second half, which also will debut exclusively for this “Halo 5 console: Guardians “,” Forza Motorsport 6 “,” Rise of the Tomb Raider “and the reissue of” Gears of War “.
To this another incentive for Microsoft for Xbox One is short, “Xbox Game Preview” platform, which was released today and giving access to titles in development between those who are initially “The Long Dark”, “Shelter” and “Day Z”.
This issue of games relegated to the background the first demonstration of the use of augmented reality system HoloLens, unveiled in January, and showed his potential with the game “Minecraft” .
On the stage of the Galen Center, Microsoft showed how their glasses allow a user to manage different surfaces (wall and table) a three-dimensional model of the world “Minecraft”, a moment that seemed out of a sci-fi, but they did not give details on the availability of this technology.
The HoloLens were priority for Microsoft, which only mentioned in passing its agreement with Oculus VR met last week to bring Xbox One the field of virtual reality.
The company itself will release this year, more accurate and tough, new controller with more control options and customizable, but did not reveal its price.
In 2016, Xbox One will have a new sequel to “Gears of War” (“Gears 4″), title of which was shown today a preview and a new futuristic franchise called “RECORE” “Dark Souls III”, “Sea of Thieves”, among others.
The E3, the most important video game industry annual meeting, exhibition will officially open on Tuesday at the Convention Center in Los Angeles
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