Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch its next-generation Xbox console in 2020. While Xbox chief Phil Spencer acknowledged this week that the software giant is \u201cdeep into architecturing the next Xbox consoles<\/a>,\u201d Brad Sams at\u00a0Thurrott.com reports<\/a>\u00a0that the next-gen Xbox will arrive in 2020. Microsoft is reportedly working on a \u201cfamily of devices\u201d under the Scarlett codename, which would also align closely to Spencer\u2019s mention of Xbox \u201cconsoles\u201d and not a single console.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear what the set of devices could be, but it\u2019s possible Microsoft is reconsidering streaming devices given its focus on a\u00a0new game streaming<\/a>\u00a0service.\u00a0Sams previously reported<\/a>\u00a0that Microsoft would launch \u201cXbox TV\u201d devices at E3 2016, but the Chromecast-like devices never appeared.\u00a0Microsoft canceled the devices<\/a>, codenamed Project Hobart, and they were originally supposed to be $99 streaming sticks to access Xbox One games from a second TV in a house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch its next-generation Xbox console in 2020. While Xbox chief Phil Spencer acknowledged this week that the software giant is \u201cdeep into architecturing the next Xbox consoles,\u201d Brad Sams at\u00a0Thurrott.com reports\u00a0that the next-gen Xbox will arrive in 2020. Microsoft is reportedly working on a \u201cfamily of devices\u201d under the Scarlett […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,34,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-2","category-gadgets","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}