Convention - Paris Games Week Restart :Discover the Xbox booth

By Mulder, Paris, Paris-Expo, Porte de Versailles, 01 november 2022

After 3 years of waiting, the time has come to meet again the major players of the industry who promise a more festive experience than ever. The PGW Restart offers a varied program of games and licenses to discover, test and share the passion of video games. Major publishers will be present at Paris Games Week 2022, including: Bandai Namco Entertainment, Capcom, Nintendo, PLAION and its partners SEGA and Koei Tecmo, PlayStation, Square Enix, Ubisoft and Xbox. 

For simulation and thrill-seeking fans, Xbox will offer to test Forza Horizon 5 and Microsoft Flight Simulator with a little surprise on the latter to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the license. For the more strategic players, Age of Empires, whose first opus celebrates its 25th anniversary, will also be playable on the PGW. Pentiment, the Obsidian Entertainment's nugget scheduled to be released on November 15, will also be present. Finally, an area entirely dedicated to Xbox Game Pass will feature the latest releases and additions to the catalog, with a few bonus titles to come and many games made in France, allowing us to celebrate the know-how and excellence of the French video game industry during the Paris Games Week.

Xbox is a video game brand created and owned by Microsoft. The brand consists of five video game consoles, as well as applications (games), streaming services, an online service called Xbox Network and a development arm called Xbox Game Studios. The brand was introduced in the United States in November 2001 with the launch of the original Xbox console. The original device was the first video game console offered by a U.S. company after the Atari Jaguar stopped selling in 1996. It reached more than 24 million units sold by May 2006. Microsoft's second console, the Xbox 360, was released in 2005 and has sold 86 million units as of October 2021. The third console, the Xbox One, was released in November 2013 and has sold 51 million units. The fourth line of Xbox consoles, the Xbox Series X and Series S, was released in November 2020. The head of Xbox is Phil Spencer, who succeeded former head Marc Whitten in late March 2014.

The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to the Xbox 360 and the third base console in the Xbox series of video game consoles. It was first released in North America, parts of Europe, Australia and South America in November 2013, and then in Japan, China and other European countries in September 2014. This is the first Xbox game console to be marketed in China, specifically in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Microsoft marketed the device as an "all-in-one entertainment system," hence the name "Xbox One."  An eighth-generation console, it competed primarily with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U, and later the Switch.

Moving away from the PowerPC architecture of its predecessor, the Xbox One marks a return to the x86 architecture used in the original Xbox; it features an AMD accelerated processing unit (APU) built around the x86-64 instruction set. The Xbox One controller has been redesigned from the Xbox 360 controller, with a body, D-pad and triggers capable of providing directional haptic feedback. The console has a greater emphasis on cloud computing, as well as social networking features and the ability to record and share video clips or game screenshots or livestream directly to streaming services such as Mixer and Twitch. Games can also be played outside the console via a local network on supported Windows 10 devices. The console can play Blu-ray discs, and overlay live TV programming from an existing set-top box or digital tuner for digital terrestrial TV with an enhanced program guide. The console includes an optional redesigned Kinect sensor, marketed as "Kinect 2.0," which provides better motion tracking and voice recognition.

The Xbox One has received positive reviews for its refined controller design, multimedia features and voice navigation. Its quieter, cooler design was praised for making the console more reliable than its predecessor at launch, but the console was generally criticized for running games at a graphically inferior level to the PlayStation 4. Its original user interface was criticized for being unintuitive, although changes to it and other aspects of the console's software after launch were well received. Its Kinect received praise for its improved motion tracking accuracy, facial recognition connections, and voice commands.

The original Xbox One was replaced by the Xbox One S in 2016, which has a smaller form factor and supports HDR10 high dynamic range video, as well as 4K video playback and scaling of games from 1080p to 4K. It was praised for its smaller size, on-screen visual improvements and lack of external power, but its regressions, such as the lack of a native Kinect port, were noted. A high-end model, named Xbox One X, was unveiled in June 2017 and released in November; it features improved hardware specifications and support for rendering games in 4K resolution. The system was replaced by the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, which launched on November 10, 2020. Production of all Xbox One consoles ceased at the end of that year.

Check out our photos of the Xbox booth on our Flickr page

As a meeting place for all communities and all generations, PGW will offer many animations that reflect the plurality of the ecosystem. Young and old will be able to meet cosplayers on the Imagin'Con association's booth, which will offer many animations and activities, and to travel with the family through the 50 years of video games on the MO5 association's retrogaming space. You can also visit the PGW Shop, which will offer a range of Paris Games Week collector's items, and the FNAC store area to discover new products, animations and demonstrations. PGW, which takes place during the All Saints' Day vacations, is naturally a meeting place for all families. The PGW Junior area will offer activities and games to try out for budding gamers and parents alike!

Key information :
-,Open to the general public from Wednesday 02 November to Sunday 06 November 2022 
- Opening hours : 8:30 am - 6:30 pm
- Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles, Hall 1
- Ticketing (only online) : here

Photos and video : Boris Colletier / Mulderville

(Source : press release)