Former Xbox president: Microsoft will exit the console market
Former Xbox president, Peter Moore, believes that Microsoft will withdraw from the console market in the future. Xbox and PlayStation have competed in the hardware market for the past two decades, but Sony's success may lead to different outcomes for Microsoft. Despite attracting over 34 million users to the Xbox Game Pass service, Microsoft has struggled to sell its ninth-generation consoles well. Microsoft has recently started launching its games on multiple platforms.
Peter Moore, during an interview with IGN, discussed the future of Xbox and claimed that Microsoft will always focus on what it does best. These include Microsoft's role as a software and services company. When asked about the possibility of Xbox abandoning the hardware market, Moore confirmed that recent decisions by Phil Spencer indicate such a future. He also mentioned the completion of the Activision Blizzard deal, suggesting that this merger could mean Microsoft's return to being purely a software company.
Now that Microsoft has become one of the largest game publishers, such a fate is not far-fetched, but Moore is unsure about the future of consoles in general. He believes that consoles will be abandoned when they become surplus to requirements, and this path does not apply to Microsoft alone. However, it should be noted that these are merely speculations by Peter Moore about the future of the video game industry.
On the other hand, the existence of tenth-generation consoles can be confirmed, as Microsoft has just announced the start of production of its next-generation consoles. The next Xbox console is likely to be designed by the team behind the Surface series.
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