The paperwork within the FTC v. Microsoft case additionally reveal Microsoft’s far future plans for 2028 — by which the corporate believed it may obtain “full convergence” of its cloud gaming platform and bodily {hardware} to ship “cloud hybrid video games.” From a report: “Our imaginative and prescient: develop a subsequent era hybrid sport platform able to leveraging the mixed energy of the consumer and cloud to ship deeper immersion and completely new courses of sport experiences.” These are the phrases on only one slide from a leaked presentation dubbed “The Subsequent Era of Gaming at Microsoft,” which seems to be a Might 2022 pitch doc totally round this concept. The corporate imagined you enjoying these video games utilizing the mixed energy of a sub-$99 gadget — presumably a handheld — and its xCloud platform concurrently.
