Microsoft Head of Gaming Phil Spencer admitted that he does not regard Nintendo and Sony as the main competitors of the Redmond company.
βWhen it comes to Nintendo and Sony, we have a lot of respect for them, but we consider Amazon and Google to be our main competitors for the near future,β Spencer said.
According to the head of Xbox, the future of the gaming industry lies in streaming, and none of the Japanese platform owners has the scope of opportunities in this area that Microsoft has.
βNo disrespect to Nintendo and Sony, it's just that the traditional game companies were basically out of business. Perhaps they can try to recreate [our cloud platform] Azure, but over the past years we have already invested billions of dollars in the cloud,β Spencer explained.
Spencer's words are confirmed by last year's , under which the Japanese giant will be able to use Microsoft Azure for its gaming and streaming services.
βI don't want to get into format wars [with Nintendo and Sony] while Amazon and Google are trying to get 7 billion people around the world into gaming. This is the ultimate goal, βsummed up Spencer.
Along with the new generation of Xbox, Spencer's team is preparing to release the xCloud cloud service. Until the end of the year, its game streaming service and Amazon, while Google continues to deal with .
Source: 3dnews.ru