Xbox has given us a small sneak preview into the next generation of its hardware, and it sounds as though the multi-device, multi-storefront approach will continue across the next few years, at least.
In a new video, Xbox president Sarah Bond discusses what's next for Xbox and its hardware, and while it sounds like there will be new consoles from the company, they're going to look pretty different from what we're used to.
Bond says that Xbox has formed a "multi-year partnership" with AMD to create chips for its new devices, including "next-generation Xbox consoles". Said machines will also include backwards compatibility with previous-gen Xbox games, by the sound of things.
According to Bond, this is all in service of building a platform that allows you to play games that aren't constrained to a single device or a single store ecosystem.
While we don't know exactly what that means, it sounds as though next-gen Xbox devices will allow you to access stores outside of the Microsoft Store. That could mean PC stores like Steam, GOG, or the Epic Store become accessible on Xbox devices, which would give console gamers a much broader spectrum of games...
