In Microsoft's eyes, XBOX is actually such a role...

There is no doubt that in the battle for the next-generation consoles, whether it is the performance and design of the product itself, or the external market sales and influence of game content, Sony PS4 can be said to have had the halo of victory since its birth, especially since 2016, when Microsoft has spared no effort to bring countless XBOX ONE exclusive masterpieces that have been and will be launched to the Windows 10 PC platform, which has also broken the hearts of its "soft rice" fans.

However, things may not be what you think.

Phil Spencer once again said XBOX will become a PC?

Originally, many people thought that Xie Enwei, the head of XBOX China, who shouted the slogan of "educating Chinese players", was already a person who liked to "provoke war", until Phil Spencer, the boss of Microsoft's XBOX business, recently began to speak out on social platforms.

Spencer recently said that the XBOX ONE console will be able to receive hardware upgrades in the future, instead of having to buy a new console every time it is upgraded. DIY? You heard it right, Microsoft is planning to add a "computer assembly" service to the console, just like the PC.

As we all know, the underlying system of today's XBOX ONE console is completely Windows, and starting from the news of hardware upgrade released this time, we can once again read two meanings.

First, Microsoft's hardware product lineup has been expanded again. Although they are all X86 architecture processors, the consoles are definitely not ordinary PCs. To upgrade the XBOX hardware, Microsoft must provide standardized upgrade hardware. Computers assembled by motherboard manufacturers must be installed with Microsoft's system. So taking advantage of the performance improvement of XBOX ONE, it is not a bad idea for Microsoft to make some DIY money. After all, even now, the performance of XBOX ONE is a bit insufficient.

Secondly, XBOX ONE may be Microsoft's last console product, there is no doubt about this speculation. Just like you can still play GTAV with full special effects by putting a new motherboard, i7 and GTX 980Ti in your old computer case from 20 years ago, according to Microsoft, XBOX ONE is essentially a "BOX" with replaceable parts.

So, what does it mean that an XBOX exclusive masterpiece is coming to PC? It’s obviously the XBOX ONE console that has been transformed into a PC, right?

Everyone thinks too much. XBOX is just a pawn in the development of Windows.

Microsoft's XBOX and Windows businesses originally had nothing to do with each other. After Microsoft was dazzled by the mobile Internet and launched Windows 8, the relationship between the two suddenly increased sharply. Now Windows 10 has suddenly become the "fuse" of XBOX players' complaints.

The new version of Windows streaming to XBOX can be understood as an extremely imaginative feature developed by Microsoft on the Windows platform, but the continuous decision to bring players' "faith" such as "Gears of War", "Forza Motorsport", and "Quantum Break" to PC has really even made foreign players start to "criticize" it.

Hard to understand? Then I suggest that international friends take a look at the explanation on the official XBOX China Weibo.

At 8 a.m. on March 2, XBOX’s official Weibo account responded to the hotly debated topic among XBOX players of all nationalities, stating that “the vision of the Xbox gaming brand is to allow all game lovers to play the exciting games they want to play at any time, on any device, and in any occasion, and to have like-minded partners. Starting this spring, we will realize our original aspiration step by step, and the greatest game series under Microsoft Game Studios will be launched or return to the Windows 10 store one after another…”

In short, the reason for the existence of XBOX is nothing more than to export game resources to the Windows system. Through the three generations of development of XBOX consoles, the next-generation consoles adopted a PC-like chip design, the same underlying system, and the introduction of new standards such as Direct X 12. The current XBOX ONE has finally completed this "historical mission."

In general, after the first generation XBOX and XBOX360 brought enough fun to console players, Microsoft left two options for XBOX ONE in 2016: turn it into a PC? Or serve PCs?

This inevitably reminds people of a sentence posted on XBOX's official Weibo - "Mr. X touched his wallet and found that for less than 3,000 yuan, he could experience generations of wonderful Microsoft first-party or third-party games in an all-in-one way, and the only way was to have the Xbox console." For this poster who has no idea about the price of PS4, it is recommended that Microsoft China change its editor as soon as possible.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.