E3 2019: Microsoft says Xbox Challenge Scarlett and Halo Infinite coming 2020, xCloud public take a look at this fall

Microsoft’s subsequent Xbox is on the horizon, and he firm is beginning to speak about it.

The online game big introduced its subsequent technology Xbox, referred to as Challenge Scarlett, at its Xbox press convention. The brand new machine, Microsoft mentioned, shall be 4x extra highly effective than its Xbox One X, promising sooner loading instances and extra intense visuals.

“A console ought to be constructed and optimized for one factor and one factor solely: Gaming,” Xbox head Phil Spencer mentioned in the course of the firm’s presentation forward of the Digital Leisure Expo, also called E3, in Los Angeles

To assist enhance the console’s enchantment, Microsoft mentioned the machine will launch with its subsequent huge upcoming area conflict recreation, Halo Infinite. The unique Halo was launched in 2001 alongside the unique Xbox, and helped make the machine a family title.

“We’ve hundreds of video games in improvement throughout Xbox One and Home windows PC,” Spencer mentioned. 

Microsoft confirmed off greater than 60 video games throughout its presentation — some huge like CD Projekt Pink’s futuristic dystopian journey recreation Cyberpunk 2077 and Microsoft’s personal Gears 5 and a few small. The corporate mentioned 14 of the video games proven got here from the corporate’s improvement arm, often known as Xbox Sport Studios. And over 30 video games premiering on the corporate’s Xbox Sport Go subscription service.

“My group and I are single minded in our resolve to deliver everybody the video games they wan to play,” he added.

The corporate’s additionally mentioned its upcoming Challenge xCloud service, which can enable folks to stream video games over the web in an identical approach they watch Netflix movies at the moment. That shall be going up towards Google’s Stadia, a competing service introduced in March, designed to work alongside the corporate’s massively common YouTube video web site.

Microsoft mentioned xCloud won’t be a standalone online game service, however somewhat it is going to work with an present Xbox that will help you play video games on cellular units at residence or whereas touring. The brand new service will enter a public testing part later this yr.

Whereas Microsoft prepares for a streaming future, it is also beginning to push on its subscription service, Xbox Sport Go. The corporate mentioned its Sport Go for the PC will value $9.99, and can start public testing Sunday. Microsoft additionally mentioned the service shall be included in its Xbox Sport Go Final service, a $14.99 monthly subscription that mixes the corporate’s Xbox Sport Go for console, its Xbox Dwell social community and, now, its Xbox Sport Go for PC.

As a part of its push, the corporate mentioned it is acquired Double Nice Productions, a well-liked online game developer whose upcoming Psychonauts 2 journey recreation is very anticipated.

The corporate additionally mentioned it’s going to provide its upcoming Gears 5 area conflict recreation shall be launched September 10, although Xbox Sport Go subscribers will get it 4 days earlier.

Upcoming E3 press conferences

Saturday, June 8

Sunday, June 9

• Microsoft / Xbox — The gaming big’s greatest information was Challenge Scarlett, its next-generation Xbox, coming in 2020. The brand new machine is as much as 4x extra highly effective, the corporate mentioned, and just like the next-gen PlayStation it’s going to embody a quick non-mechanical SSD onerous drive, and it will be powered by customized innards constructed with the assistance of chipmaker AMD.  The corporate additionally introduced that Halo Infinite will launch alongside Challenge Scarlett subsequent yr. Meantime, Microsoft is beginning public checks of its Challenge xCloud streaming service in October, promising folks the flexibility to play excessive finish video games on their cellular units whereas away from residence. Whereas followers wait, Microsoft introduced an replace to its Xbox Elite Controller Collection 2 in addition to a slew of latest video games. And motion star Keanu Reeves, contemporary off the success of John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, was on stage to announce his involvement with Cyberpunk 2077, which is coming subsequent yr.
• Bethesda — 5:30 p.m. PT (8:30 p.m. ET)

Monday, June 10

Tuesday, June 11

• Nintendo (livestream solely) — 9 a.m. PT (midday ET)

We’re there

CNET shall be on the bottom, protecting protecting E3 2019 alongside our sister web site, Gamespot. We’ll replace this web page all through the present as extra video games are introduced.