Following last week’s comments from Xbox CFO Tim Stuart about Microsoft’s plans to add Xbox Game Pass to “every screen,” head of Xbox Phil Spencer has now said that the company doesn’t plan to bring the service to PlayStation and Nintendo.Last week, Tim Stuart said it’s Microsoft’s mission to add Xbox Game Pass to “every screen,” including devices the company “thought of as competitors in the past like PlayStation and Nintendo.” The news was met with a mixed reception from the community, with some wondering what that means for Xbox hardware.In a recent interview with Windows Central, Phil Spencer has discussed “what it means to own an Xbox,” and Microsoft’s commitment to innovating with the platform. “I’ll start by saying we have no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo,” Spencer said. “It’s not in our plans.””Just last month, we elevated Sarah Bond to be the president of Xbox, the hardware team is in her organization, the platform and services team are in her organization,” Spencer said. “We made that organizational move specifically to ensure we had a unified focus for our innovation roadmap across hardware and services. That includes the developer platform for Xbox consoles as well. That’s about innovation we’re doing within our teams, but we’ll have more to talk about in terms of what we’re doing in the hardware space, and in the service space — there’s a lot of great work for us to do. We’re always listening.” According to the Xbox boss, Microsoft has multiple roadmaps in the works that it hopes to reveal to the community in the future, and interestingly, one such roadmap could be linked to improvements to the achievement system.”There’s a hardware roadmap, there’s a service roadmap, maybe there’s even a roadmap for improvements to Xbox achievements, which I know is something that you and many others care about,” Spencer said “We need to make sure we’re exposing roadmaps to our customers to keep them excited. We know that our customers want to know that, as Xbox continues to grow, we still have a commitment to them. We want our Xbox core customers that have been with us all along to feel respected.”We’ll have to wait to see the roadmaps Spencer has mentioned above, but earlier this year leaked court documents revealed that the company was looking to drop Xbox Series X|S mid-gen refreshes next year, as well as launch a new official controller with haptic feedback.With The Game Awards kicking off later this week, we’re hoping to at least get a glimpse of some of Xbox’s future.
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