Over the past few years, NFTs have become quite a controversial topic in the video game industry, with various companies supporting this trend, while others simply oppose it. In this way, Phil Spencer, head of Xboxhas joined this conversation, signaling that it is not ready to abandon this market entirely.
In a recent interview with BloombergSpencer was questioned about the possible use of NFTs in Xbox games, as well as other “Play-to-earn” monetization systems, noting that he feels “cautious” but doesn’t want to rule out any new technology. This is what he commented on it:
“Playing to win specifically is something I’m cautious about. Create a player workforce for certain players to monetize. To be fair to us, in the games industry, this has been around for years and years. There have been gold farmers: people who literally spend their time doing menial tasks in a game to accumulate some money that they can then sell to some other rich player for real money, so that person doesn’t have to spend their time. But now you find games that are starting to incorporate that into the economy of the game itself.
I think sometimes it’s a hammer for a nail when these technologies come out. But the actual human use, or gamer use in our case, of these technologies, I think there could be some interesting things.”
Although this is the position of Phil Spencer, we must not forget that Xbox has already taken a position on this, since a long time ago, Mojang made it clear that they do not want to see NFT or other similar monetization in Minecraft, position that Spencer has also taken on the matter.
Nevertheless, The possibility that eventually we will see the implementation of the blockchain or the NFT in some product of the company is not ruled out.. On related topics, youtuber turns the most expensive Pokémon card into an NFT. Similarly, networks have mocked the NFT console.
Editor’s note:
Compared to what was seen at the beginning of the year, the trend of NFTs has decreased substantially, to the extent that many companies that initially supported this market have abandoned it, as is the case with Ubisoft, so it is very likely that Xbox stay away from NFTs.
Via: GameSpot
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