Microsoft’s Phil Spencer says the company has plans to debut a game streaming service some time in the next three years. In an interview with Bloomberg, published today, the executive vice president of Xbox says that some types of content will not require a console.
The interview, which comes on the eve of the launch of the upgraded Xbox One X console, was brief but wide ranging. In it, Spencer expressed a desire to spool up or acquire one or more new game studio to help reinvigorate the Xbox brand.
“We need to grow,” Spencer said, “and I look forward to doing that.”
But the real news was dropped almost as an aside, and came late in the article:
Microsoft will probably debut a streaming service that doesn’t require a console for some types of content in the next three years, Spencer said. A 2012 trial of such a service inside the company was too costly and never made it to the market, but Microsoft’s progress in Azure cloud services over the past few years is changing the economics and quality level, he said.
Source: Polygon
