Microsoft has officially announced the “Focus on the Future of Xbox Business” program and it will be launched at 4 a.m. Beijing time on February 16.
How to watch the event?
You can watch this event on Xbox’s YouTube channel. There are many rumors that Microsoft will announce at this conference that “Xbox/PC exclusive games” such as “Starry Sky” and “Perfect Soundwave” will be launched on competing platforms such as Sony PS5. However, currently Microsoft No hints were given about this.
However, in addition to recent games such as “Starry Sky” and “Perfect Soundwave”, in fact, the games of several studios that Microsoft has acquired in recent years have been launched on competitors’ platforms, including “Minecraft”, “Fallout”, ” “Diablo” and other works, and Microsoft itself has also released various games such as “Forza Motorsport” on platforms such as Steam, so it is expected if Microsoft announces that “Star Sky” and other games will be launched on the PS5 platform.
Earlier it was revealed that Microsoft announced its financial results, which included a significant increase in its gaming business revenue due to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard for US$68.7 billion.
CEO Satya Nadella declared that the company has experienced record growth in monthly active users, reaching 200 million, and reiterated that “great content is key to the company’s growth” and that he has “never been more excited” about the upcoming game lineup”.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been adding graphics processing units (GPUs) to its data centers so that clients can run AI models in Azure. That includes GPT-4, a large language model that enables text conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. Many businesses have been adding similar generative AI capabilities to their products.
“We now have 53,000 Azure AI customers,” CEO Satya Nadella told analysts on the company’s earnings call.