14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft's new Xbox boss, Phil Spencer, has once again explained why he believes the Xbox One is better than the PS4 for gamers, emphasizing the importance of the cloud and the fact that the company is always listening to fans, developers, and partners.
The Xbox One and PS4 came out last year, and rather quickly the PS4 shot ahead in terms of sales, popularity, and video game performance, leaving Microsoft to scramble and try all sorts of ways to give its device a fighting chance.
This week, Microsoft deployed a Kinect-less Xbox One bundle that had the same price as the PS4 and introduced a variety of upcoming games for that platform at E3 2014.
Even so, the company's Xbox boss, Phil Spencer, believes the cloud processing power is still the best advantage the Xbox One has over the PS4. He talked with GameTrailers, via GamingBolt, and explained how games are using this cloud power.
"One of the things that I am really proud of is the number of games that we have shown here to talk about live innovation, like dedicated servers or drivatars, we showed Crackdown at the end of the shown which is one of my favorite games of all time. The destruction that Dave Jones is building using the cloud, that allows to do things on a console that have never been done before will be really special," he said.
Spencer has also acknowledged that the Xbox One has been lagging in terms of video game performance and emphasized that, with the GPU performance upgrade rolled out this month, developers are getting really excited about the platform once more.
"I think it’s really important that we are a great development platform for developers and you might have seen that in our June update we did some work on the GPU. It’s been a good uptake from our 1st party partners, developers and studios. They have been working on these games that will be launching this fall," he explained.
"We have had great feedback from Bungie for Destiny and the impact it is going to have on the resolution. Being the best place for developers, live service and core development platform is critical for our success."
It's going to be interesting to see if the new measures taken by Microsoft will get the Xbox One back in the race against the PS4. You can expect the sales figures for the month of June to be quite important.