{"id":72373,"date":"2024-03-12T01:41:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/former-xbox-boss-peter-moore-says-gen-z-may-reject-new-consoles-in-favor-of-smartphones-and-pcs\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T03:46:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T03:46:26","slug":"former-xbox-boss-peter-moore-says-gen-z-may-reject-new-consoles-in-favor-of-smartphones-and-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/former-xbox-boss-peter-moore-says-gen-z-may-reject-new-consoles-in-favor-of-smartphones-and-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Xbox boss Peter Moore says Gen Z might reject new consoles in favor of smartphones and PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peter Moore displaying his well-known (and apparently actual) Halo 2 launch date tattoo at E3 2004. <\/span>(Picture credit score: Susan Goldman\/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have we reached the “final console technology”? Former Xbox boss Peter Moore would not declare to know for certain, however he thinks it is a query that present Xbox head Phil Spencer should be asking, and he would not sound very assured that consoles of their present type will final for much longer.<\/p>\n

Moore himself was asking the identical query in 2007\u2014a pair years after the Xbox 360 launched\u2014he stated in a current interview with IGN. Again then, Microsoft was questioning whether or not TVs would begin to “include chips that may play video games,” stated Moore, or if a PC gaming renaissance was afoot (it was), and whether or not or not a brand new console technology was price “hemorrhaging” money to get into folks’s properties on the hope that sport gross sales and Xbox Stay subscriptions made up for it.<\/p>\n