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Microsoft is working to implement support to play Xbox games on smart TVs. This has been confirmed by Xbox boss Phil Spencer in an interview with The Verge where he suggested this is likely to happen within the next year.
When asked about possible plans for an Xbox TV app, Spencer said, “I think they’ll see it in the next 12 months. I don’t think anything will stop us from doing that. ”
In October, Spencer had also hinted at new hardware for televisions, the Xbox xCloud streaming device, for gamers with a focus on the Xbox xCloud game streaming service.
In an interview with Stratechery, Spencer said, “I think you will see lower-priced hardware as part of our ecosystem when you think of streaming devices and other things that someone might want to connect to their TV and play through xCloud.”
Readers should know that the company is already testing to bring xCloud support to mobile devices and a streaming service for televisions seems like an obvious step.
Despite giving streaming its due importance, the company apparently has no plans to ditch the consoles or the hardware, as Spencer put it: “I don’t think these are the last big pieces of hardware we ship.” According to him, the future is in a “hybrid environment”.
“When we think of xCloud, which is our version of Stadia or Luna, I think what you need to evolve are games that actually run between a hybrid cloud environment and local computing capacity,” Spencer explains. “It’s really a hybrid between the two.”
