Peter Molynuex, the former creative director of Microsoft Games Studios, is keeping a close eye on the next Xbox and, according to him, the console should only be for playing games, not for offering a different approach to Facebook, according to a report.
While Molynuex is not really sure as to what Microsoft’s intentions are with the new console, he states: “I’m going to be absolutely fascinated to see what they finally come out with, because I kind of knew a lot when I was at Microsoft about what their plans were, and plans change and aspirations change,” he tells EDGE.
“I’m sure they’ll have put a lot of time and thought and rehearsal into that press briefing [on May 21st], but I’m going to be fascinated to see what the hardware is, and how it will fit into this new world that we’re in now – this new world of hyper-connectivity, of super-portability.”
“Or whether they’ll double-down and say ‘you know what? We are the games console, and that’s what we define ourselves as’ and say [they] don’t really care about hyper-connectivity or hyper-portability. It’ll be fascinating which way they jump,” he added.
As a gamer, if he had the chance, he would “double-down on what this console is for: it’s for playing games. It’s for playing console games for this massive, incredibly loyal audience of gamers out there.”
“When they start to mix all this other stuff in there I’m kind of slightly like: ‘look, I don’t want another way of looking at Facebook’,” Molyneux tells EDGE. “You know, I’ve got all the ways of looking at Facebook. I don’t want another way of looking at Netflix. Just give me what I’ve paid my £299 for, and that is to play amazing, incredible computer games.”
Is Molynuex's right? Should the next Xbox focus on games instead of new ways of using Facebook? We'll find out when the next console is revealed on May 21.
