At the recent Xbox showcases, the absence of new game announcements for the Xbox One from first-party developers turned heads amongst the community. Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has now addressed the exclusion, revealing to the disappointment of Xbox One gamers that first-party developers will no longer be porting their upcoming games to the console. Support for existing Xbox One games like Minecraft will continue, however, and those on the previous generation of Xbox will be able to continue playing Series X|S games through the cloud.

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Development cycles for AAA titles are “four and five and six years” now, said Booty, and that necessitates leaving behind the Xbox One’s dated hardware in order to deliver the best experiences possible with regards to projects that are currently in development. As such, Xbox’s first-party developers will no longer be developing Xbox One versions of their upcoming games, a decision that showed through the absence of any Xbox One version announcements for titles like Avowed, Fable, and Hellblade II at the Xbox Games Showcase.

Xbox plans to cater to Xbox One owners going forward through Xbox Cloud Gaming, through which players can continue playing the latest and greatest first-party titles that would otherwise be exclusive to Series X|S consoles. As for titles like Minecraft that maintain a presence on Xbox One and are regularly updated, their last-gen versions will continue to receive updates and support.

What do you feel about this decision? Should the Xbox One still receive first-party love or is it time to upgrade for those still sticking to it? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: Axios