Microsoft would release an upgradeable xbox, the pc would benefit

One of the biggest drawbacks of game consoles is the inability to update their hardware, something that ends up weighing them down as as they advance in their life cycle they become very outdated and limit game developers. Microsoft would be thinking of launching a new upgradeable Xbox console that would help solve this problem.

Traditionally, game consoles have been launched on the market with hardware far superior to that of the PCs of the time, a situation that caused the start of a new generation of game consoles to show a much higher performance than computers, allowing new graphic effects and more elaborate animations.

However, moving forward in its life cycle, the consoles were always lagging behind the PC, always in constant evolution and sooner than later clearly overcoming them. At this point, it is consoles that limit video game developers, preventing them from improving the graphic quality of their titles and making the most of the possibilities of the most advanced PCs.

A situation that has worsened in the current generation Xbox One and PS4 since they came out with much less hardware than what could be found in the best PCs of the moment. This situation could change in the future since Microsoft would be planning to launch a new upgradeable Xbox to improve its features.

This maneuver would end the concept of the traditional video game console and could mean a unification of gaming on PC and console, after all, current consoles share CPU and GPU architecture with the PC (in addition to the operating system in the case of Xbox One).) so the games could work interchangeably on one platform or the other. It would also end the problem of consoles weighing down the PC and we could see more developed and better performing titles.

Source: theguardian