Xbox One Elite drive installed in the unit will give gamers a boost in booting the unit from standby mode, twenty percent faster than the normal speed which already sound really impressive to any gamer set around the world. “I’ll say, obviously we have relationships with Valve, we have a relationship with Oculus around the VR work that they’re doing, but I’m going to say I kind of hope not”. I do think there’ll be great experiences there, but just kind of for the sake of what gaming is, I don’t think that should be the only way people play.
Microsoft is willing to do deals such as the Rise of the Tomb Raider one, along with deals on the lines of Fallout 4 mods coming to Xbox One first and EA Access being an exclusive service.
Spencer’s convictions on the matter were so strong during the interview, that we were nearly expecting him to drop a #AllConsolesMatter hashtag.
But Spencer did speak a little about the future of Windows and Xbox gaming integrations in a hopeful way that he and his team fully intend to embrace.
When speaking about AR and HoloLens, Spencer clarifies that the E3 demos of “Halo Lens” and Minecraft were just demos.
In his statement featured on Attack of the Fan Boy, he said, “It would be too bad if all gaming became people with head mounted displays on, headphones on, kind of blocked out from everything that happens”. He’s generally seen to be a pro-gamer, and incredibly nice to the competition, often congratulating PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida on twitter, and opening discussing playing games on a range of platforms. I don’t see any reason to go after and be pithy towards somebody who’s just trying to do a good job with the product that they’re building.
The Xbox One console arrived back in November of 2013 in the midst of turmoil both at Microsoft overall but also inside the actual Xbox division, which was left without a leader after Don Mattrick left that summer.
“No team is focused on it more than 343”, he said. And stay tuned to WinBeta for more Halo news as we get closer to the launch date.