Today's Xbox roundtable brought us news on the next generation of Xbox, but what about hardware plans for the here and now? While the standard Xbox Series X and S consoles are still Microsoft's 'new' gaming machines, the team appears to have plans for some sort of Xbox hardware refresh later this year.
Again speaking on the Official Xbox Podcast, Microsoft's Sarah Bond announced that the team has hardware plans for Holiday 2024. Now, it's not 100% clear whether Xbox will announce new hardware during that time or release it - but we're leaning towards the latter. Here's what Sarah had to say:
"So we're giving them [developers] an easy way to access as many players as possible. And we actually have more creators right now building for Xbox than ever before, thousands of them, by nature of those investments. And we got more to come.
There's some exciting stuff coming out in hardware that we're going to share this holiday."
A big reason we're leaning towards this launching in late 2024 is because of more comments via The Verge. The outlet's Tom Warren casually mentioned "new console and controller options are coming this holiday" in a question posed to Phil Spencer - and the Xbox boss didn't deny what Tom said. Tom's mention of this hardware was tucked into a question about last year's FTC leaks, which Phil laughed about - sarcastically responding that he "doesn't know about any leaks". Cheeky!
Whether or not those leaks are still accurate remains to be seen - but they did mention both a console and a controller refresh for 2024. We'll have to wait for later in the year to have all of this confirmed, but for now, feel free to read up on those leaked hardware plans down below.