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I’ve been thinking a lot about the next Xbox lately. While Microsoft publicly lines up a busy year of game releases and ports for the PS5 and Switch 2, the company has also been secretly building its future Xbox hardware and platform. There haven’t been any giant leaks about next-gen hardware yet, but Microsoft has been dropping hints over the past year that make it clear the next Xbox is going to be a lot different from the box that exists right now.
Microsoft is developing new console hardware that Xbox president Sarah Bond has said will deliver the largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation. We’ve heard very little about next-gen hardware since that promise a year ago, and a lot has changed since internal documents from 2022 leaked and hinted that the next Xbox could arrive in 2028.
Xbox chief Phil Spencer said in a recent interview that he wants Microsoft “to innovate and make hardware the differentiator. Spencer told me something similar a year ago, saying that Microsoft is thinking about creating hardware that sells to gamers because of the unique aspects of the hardware. It’s kind of an unleashing of the creative capabilities.
