Phil Spencer Sees the Future of Gaming to Be Similar to Netflix and Spotify - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2020 / 2,996 Views
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer in an interview in the latest episode of the Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast discussed where he sees gaming in 10 years.
He sees a future where gaming will have similarities to streaming services like Netflix and Spotify. He sees streaming only consoles that don't have a disc drive or storage and everything comes through the internet. He mentions how he can listen to his music on a wide range of devices with Spotify and that gaming could be similar in the future.
"I think we’re going to end up with more differences underneath our TVs than we did before," said Spencer. "I do think there’ll probably be a plethora of streaming-only consoles that don’t have a disk drive, don’t have a storage device, and everything is coming through, and then it’s how do I get the signal to the TV… maybe some of those are built-in.
"I think you’ll see more high-end stuff as well. I just look around and try to pattern-match on things. If I think about video and music… the streaming services that are out there have liberated those media types to all the devices around me. I now have way more devices than I ever had to watch TV.
"With the advent of Disney and Netflix and everybody else coming in, it has not lessened the number of devices. It has actually increased. The same is with music. Now I have Spotify in my ear, I have Spotify in my pocket, I have it in my home… I have the ability to connect to my music services across so many different devices with different levels of fidelity… large screens, small screens, stereo sound… sometimes I listen to music with one earpiece only.
"I think games are going to go in a similar way. I what we’re going to find is as games are able to run in multiple contexts and on different devices, you’re going to see a lot of different devices grow up, supporting different scenarios.
One issue Spencer says with console gaming today is that you can only play it on one TV and can't turn the console on and play it on any TV in the house. He would like to see the ability to turn on your console and have the ability to change what TV you are playing it on.
"Underneath my television… One of the things that have always bummed me out about consoles is that I usually have one TV in my house that my console is plugged into. This is very much a multiple TV bubble world that we live in where we have multiple TVs in our house, but the idea that I can’t just go to any TV in my house and sit down and play the games that I want to go play… We should have that ability.
"The model for us in the industry we should think about… Yes, maybe one of them is the primary places where I play where I have the most capability, but my ability to throw that content either from that console or from the cloud to any of the TVs in my house is something that I think we should have and I think helps us in terms of families playing together and new creative scenarios.
"I think we’re gonna see a multitude of different devices in my house that allow me to play.
Thanks Twinfinite.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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X1X is a waste of money already, cheers Papa Phil.
Translation: The PlayStation and even the Switch is kicking our asses. Let's tell everyone we want to be the best at something Sony and Nintendo are not placing their primary focus on so it would appear that by default we will be the best at it. And people will believe us. Worked before, right? Right...?
Well, just buy a second dock for your Switch console and you have that multiple TV solution. And you can play your games on the go with no need for internet.
Phil is onto something here! If only there were a system that allowed you to seemlessly Switch between playing on the go, and playing on a T.V. I think something like that would sell like hotcakes!
Especially if it has Nintendo games. I don't think a device like that with limited specs can do as well with Sony and MS games.
Then its time to stop current and next gen and play retro
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by William D'Angelo , posted 3 hours ago / 336 Views
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer in an interview in the latest episode of the Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast discussed where he sees gaming in 10 years.
He sees a future where gaming will have similarities to streaming services like Netflix and Spotify. He sees streaming only consoles that don't have a disc drive or storage and everything comes through the internet. He mentions how he can listen to his music on a wide range of devices with Spotify and that gaming could be similar in the future.
"I think we’re going to end up with more differences underneath our TVs than we did before," said Spencer. "I do think there’ll probably be a plethora of streaming-only consoles that don’t have a disk drive, don’t have a storage device, and everything is coming through, and then it’s how do I get the signal to the TV… maybe some of those are built-in.
"I think you’ll see more high-end stuff as well. I just look around and try to pattern-match on things. If I think about video and music… the streaming services that are out there have liberated those media types to all the devices around me. I now have way more devices than I ever had to watch TV.
"With the advent of Disney and Netflix and everybody else coming in, it has not lessened the number of devices. It has actually increased. The same is with music. Now I have Spotify in my ear, I have Spotify in my pocket, I have it in my home… I have the ability to connect to my music services across so many different devices with different levels of fidelity… large screens, small screens, stereo sound… sometimes I listen to music with one earpiece only.
"I think games are going to go in a similar way. I what we’re going to find is as games are able to run in multiple contexts and on different devices, you’re going to see a lot of different devices grow up, supporting different scenarios.
One issue Spencer says with console gaming today is that you can only play it on one TV and can't turn the console on and play it on any TV in the house. He would like to see the ability to turn on your console and have the ability to change what TV you are playing it on.
"Underneath my television… One of the things that have always bummed me out about consoles is that I usually have one TV in my house that my console is plugged into. This is very much a multiple TV bubble world that we live in where we have multiple TVs in our house, but the idea that I can’t just go to any TV in my house and sit down and play the games that I want to go play… We should have that ability.
"The model for us in the industry we should think about… Yes, maybe one of them is the primary places where I play where I have the most capability, but my ability to throw that content either from that console or from the cloud to any of the TVs in my house is something that I think we should have and I think helps us in terms of families playing together and new creative scenarios.
"I think we’re gonna see a multitude of different devices in my house that allow me to play.
Thanks Twinfinite.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Random_Matt
Random_Matt (29 minutes ago)
X1X is a waste of money already, cheers Papa Phil.
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Chazore
Chazore (1 hour ago)
haha, hell naw man. I know that's what the majority of the big fish want, but no way in hell do the hardcore want that. Sadly though, I can absolutely see the casuals, who do not care about anything within the industry, aiding them in their dream to screwing over gaming in general.
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COKTOE
COKTOE (3 hours ago)
Oh Jesus. He's been furrowing his brow for, I guess his entire life, including those years in adulthood as a rich executive, trying to figure out how he could possibly play video games on multiple TV's. Of course, people have long ago cracked the code of how the, ugh, "multiple TV bubble world" can be manipulated in such a way, so as to facilitate console usage on any TV in ones filthy tenement/opulent mansion. But with Phil, the absence of hoo-blah would mean silence, which is clearly not in the game plan.
haha, hell naw man.
I know that's what the majority of the big fish want, but no way in hell do the hardcore want that. Sadly though, I can absolutely see the casuals, who do not care about anything within the industry, aiding them in their dream to screwing over gaming in general.
Oh Jesus. He's been furrowing his brow for, I guess his entire life, including those in adulthood as a rich executive, trying to figure out how he could possibly play video games on multiple TV's. Of course, people have long ago cracked the code of how the, ugh, "multiple TV bubble world" can be manipulated in such a way, so as to facilitate console usage on any TV in ones filthy tenement/opulent mansion. But with Phil, the absence of hoo-blah would mean silence, which is clearly not in the game plan.
Hopefully he's wrong. When this future comes to pass I'll become a retro gamer.
I knew this is what Xbox wanted I just posted about this. They want to be the Netflix of gaming. I have no interest in that sort of thing.
