Next-Gen Xbox Will Reportedly Play PlayStation Games Like God of War and Spider-Man Because It’s a Console / PC Hybrid That Runs Steam

A caller study has revealed details connected Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox console, which is allegedly a console / PC hybrid that volition play PlayStation games released connected PC via Steam.

That means the likes of Sony Santa Monica’s God of War, Insomniac’s Spider-Man, and Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima and beauteous overmuch each different PC games volition each beryllium playable connected the next-gen Xbox successful an manufacture first.

Windows Central said that portion users of the next-gen Xbox tin stay wrong the Xbox ecosystem if they want, they tin exit to Windows, wherever the console acts similar a accepted Windows PC. That means having entree to PlayStation games connected Steam, and rodent and keyboard games from Blizzard's launcher, Battle.net (World of Warcraft), and Riot's launcher (League of Legends).

Essentially, it sounds similar the next-gen Xbox volition beryllium arsenic overmuch a PC arsenic it is simply a console. Perhaps it’s much of a PC than a console.

In truth, this shouldn’t travel arsenic overmuch of a surprise. Xbox president Sarah Bond has called retired the precocious released — and pricy — ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X handhelds arsenic pointing successful the absorption Microsoft is taking with its upcoming console. In an interrogation with Mashable, Bond talked successful vague presumption astir what Microsoft is going for, but did powerfully suggest it volition beryllium an costly device.

"The next-gen console is going to beryllium a precise premium, precise high-end curated experience," Bond said. "You're starting to spot immoderate of the reasoning we person successful this handheld [ROG Xbox Ally], but I don't privation to springiness it each away."

The institution has confirmed — arsenic precocious arsenic earlier this period — that it inactive plans to travel the Xbox Series X and S with a next-gen console, and has announced an statement with AMD to marque it happen.

Microsoft has promised “next-level performance, cutting-edge graphics, breakthrough gameplay, and unmatched compatibility,” and said everything it’s moving connected volition beryllium “fully compatible” with users’ existing Xbox crippled library.

Prior comments from Bond person backed the console / PC hybrid proposition up. "This is each astir gathering you a gaming level that's ever with you, truthful you tin play the games you privation crossed devices anyplace you want, delivering you an Xbox acquisition not locked to a azygous store oregon tied to 1 device," Bond said.

"That's wherefore we're moving intimately with the Windows team, to guarantee that Windows is the fig 1 level for gaming."

Xbox is acceptable to spell up against PlayStation erstwhile again, with some Microsoft and Sony reportedly acceptable to merchandise their next-gen consoles successful 2027. The next-gen Xbox is taking a antithetic way this time, but the anticipation is the PS6 volition beryllium a much accepted console, offering genuinely exclusive games — arsenic the PS5 does now.

Speaking of exclusives, Microsoft has good and genuinely walked distant from the full conception aft announcing Halo: Campaign Evolved for PS5 successful 2026. Bond had said the thought of a video crippled exclusive locked to a azygous storefront has go “antiquated for astir people,” truthful Halo’s leap to what was erstwhile considered its bitter rival didn't travel arsenic overmuch of a surprise, either.

The question present is, volition the next-gen Xbox beryllium the archetypal to motorboat without immoderate exclusive games?

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