The rumours are out and about again! You might remember that back in early February, it was reported that Microsoft had a "What's New For Gaming" event to be held on March 23rd. But instead, the Xbox Indie Showcase took its place.
That event is reportedly still planned, however - at least according to Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet, who notes that this event (apparently called "What's Next For Gaming"), will take place at some point in the coming weeks.
"Microsoft is supplementing its main, larger conferences this year with smaller "What's Next" virtual events. A "What's Next for Gaming" event is expected in the coming weeks. The Game Stack Live event also listed on the US events page is not that event, I hear."
That's all we know about the event so far, but as Windows Central points out, it's best not to expect game reveals at this event, as it will likely be more focused around new tech and platform features for Xbox. Who knows, we might even get a release date for Xbox Cloud Gaming on iOS and PC, for example.
In any case, hopefully we'll find out more shortly. Before then, Microsoft is also hosting another event this coming Saturday in the form of the Age of Empires: Fan Preview, where hopefully we'll get a release date for Age of Empires 4.
What are you hoping to see at this rumoured event? Give us your hopes down in the comments.
[source zdnet.com, via windowscentral.com]
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My hope wont happen but will be nice to see.
Hopefully they keep this event crisp at 30-45 min and not that 4 hour slog they showed last month. Only so much time in the day & can't handle those events over an hour. They can keep dev commentary on the YouTube channel but please give us poor consumers a consumable chunk of time! Others interested in more details can watch some stuff on the Xbox YouTube channel when they have more time.
Would just like xcloud for iOS to announced! Be also interested to see if uplay+ be added to game pass as well!
I'd guess this'll be focused on ways to play rather than games so stuff like Game Pass (in the form of xCloud) for iOS, streaming stick, smart TVs, Switch, etc. and xCloud being upgraded to the Series X servers. Given even the Bethesda event had existing games added to Game Pass announced, announce a bunch of existing games being added to Game Pass here too.
Then the focus turns to future games during the summer. Seems rather counter-intuitive to hype up the future Series X lineup when the system is still extremely hard to get hold of and apparently things are meant to improve in the 2nd half.
@Medic_Alert @CrazyJF I'm amazed they haven't done this already. Exactly down MS street to wait to see how the technology takes and if they need to then buy out a leading company. This feels exactly the right time for them to do this, especially as they are buying so many others as well right now.
What a position they'd be in if they had a top quality VR set and put all the VR games on Gamepass.
I just wanna know when we're seeing Halo Infinite gameplay, and when do we get more 60fps xbone patches?
@Medic_Alert Don't disagree with your logic and sense - I'm just thinking buyout may mean more MS VR input which equals more GP inclusion - but I suppose a deal is more probable. And surely the Series X is easily capable of running that thing?
@Royalblues I agree with you but I bet we don’t get any game or studio announcements here. It seems it’ll be more about technology and future platform offerings (like xcloud in new places)
@Medic_Alert Heck, even without VR there's not that many VR games that it doesn't still count as a handful of exclusives. I'm on the same page of ps5 being for a handful of games and bc.
Will definitely just be tech focused news.
They have xCloud for iOS and PC. Could announce the development of a streaming stick for TV or just an app for Smart TVs.
Then of course you have ML that we haven't really heard much about so far.
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