Foreign media believe that Xbox is coming out of the trough! Although there are challenges, the future is bright

Jun 19 2025

　　Jez Corden, editor-in-chief of Microsoft Information Media Windows Central, posted a post to look forward to the future of Xbox, saying that Xbox is coming out of the trough and the future of Microsoft's gaming platform is bright.

　The main content of the original text is as follows:

　　Since this generation, the sales of Xbox Series X|S have been far behind the PlayStation 5, which is mainly due to the failure of the previous generation of Xbox One, which has led to a whole generation of players turning to the PlayStation ecosystem.

　　In recent years, Microsoft has frequently aroused confusion and doubts among players in the stable output capabilities of the first-party game lineup, its commitment to the future of hardware, and its strategies for exclusive games such as Forza and Gears of War to land on competitor platforms. But these turbulent times seem to be a thing of the past today.

Through a series of large-scale mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft can now launch games with both quality and type more frequently than any publisher on the market. All of these games have been released first and added to the Xbox Game Pass service, and support the sharing of archives and purchase progress between Xbox and PC platforms, truly achieving "play anywhere".

　　Xbox Series X is still a flagship model with powerful performance, while XSS has become the cheapest way to experience this generation of games with ultra-low threshold. Xbox Game Pass is currently in the strongest update period in history, and Microsoft officially confirmed this month that it will continue to launch a new generation of consoles, and announced a long-term cooperation agreement with AMD to provide technical support for the next generation of Xbox consoles. This time, is Xbox really going to take off?

　　XGP has been fully fired recently—"Blue Path Prince", "Light and Shadow 33 Expedition Team", "Doom: Dark Ages" and other works have been put into the library one after another. The future lineup is also exciting, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Outer World 2, etc., which will be launched this year.

　　This month's Xbox launch conference showed a new height for Microsoft's first-party, and studio production quality such as InXile and Obsidian has reached a new level. In the future, there will be a series of heavy works such as "Roar Kingdom 3", "Gods and Ghosts", and "Gears: Incident Day". Third-party support has also been significantly enhanced - Japanese manufacturers such as SE and Falcom have embraced Xbox one after another, and the green camp ushered in an unprecedented open atmosphere.

For many players who are worried about whether Xbox will "still be a console" in the future, Microsoft's clear statement on the next generation of hardware this week is crucial. Not only did they confirm that the new console will be compatible with the current game library, they also hinted that there will be a device that "both the living room and the handheld experience" - perhaps really a native Xbox handheld.

This also basically ends the rumor that "Xbox hardware will be completely outsourced to third parties in the future" - especially after Microsoft and Asus launched the Xbox-branded handheld PC. However, this does not mean that Microsoft has given up its cross-platform ecosystem. Instead, it implies that the host may support PC stores such as Steam in the future, making the gaming experience more free and flexible. From cloud gaming, PC handheld consoles, traditional hosts to Windows 11, Microsoft is building a seamless, connected, and unified digital ecosystem across platforms.