Xbox One is dead, at least for Microsoft. The Redmond giant has already confirmed it will not release more exclusive games from its studios for said consolewhich for her means that her life cycle is over and that the American company has decided to focus on the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X.

It was Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, who confirmed this in a recent interview, and this means that they no longer have projects in development for the Xbox One, a console that is officially dead to them, even if they don’t want it to be. to say that other developers are following in the footsteps of Microsoft, in fact, it is very likely that this veteran continue to get games between what’s left of 2023 and part of 2024 by third parties.

Why did Microsoft give up Xbox One for death?

The truth is that several reasons come into play. On the one hand, we have the fact that the Xbox One was not as successful as the PS4, so doesn’t have the same user base and therefore does not have the same weight in market share. On the other hand, we have to keep in mind that its hardware is already years out of date and that the development of cross-generation games has as a minimum basis at the hardware level is a big brakeand it can cause problems. We’ve seen this before in Halo Infinite, to give a famous example, and we’ve also been hearing complaints from developers for years.

If this decision by Microsoft makes you angry, calm down, as we already told you about the console will still have a certain life as long as it continues to receive third-party games, and in fact recently received the long-awaited Diablo IV, it still has an up-to-date catalog full of interesting games. Also note that this console It has a very long life. and how soon will celebrate eleven years on the market. It’s Microsoft’s longest running console and it’s more than paid for.

Sony has not yet said when it plans to abandon the PS4, but in this case the situation is more complicated for the Japanese company, because this console it has a huge user baseand abandoning it would mean abandoning those users and giving up a lot of potential sales. However, in the end a full transition to PS5 will eventually be inevitableand as happened with the Xbox One, the PS4 will also end up dead.

I personally believe that 2023 will most likely be the PS4’s last great yearand that from 2024 we will already see the end of this console.