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When we talked with Phil Spencer, the Head of Xbox, back in June he talked about how the Xbox Scorpio is kind of their response to the scaleable PC market. One of his comments were:

"I think if you look at most of the top developers today they're focusing on both consoles and PC. And as we all know, PC has scaleable architecture already."

Some interpreted this as him saying that one of the future's Xbox consoles would be scaleable. Now it seems that this scenario might be closer than you think.

When Engadget asked Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft's head of Xbox games marketing, whether or not this would be the last console generation he said:

"I think it is. ... For us, we think the future is without console generations; we think that the ability to build a library, a community, to be able to iterate with the hardware -- we're making a pretty big bet on that with Project Scorpio. We're basically saying, "This isn't a new generation; everything you have continues forward and it works." We think of this as a family of devices.

But we'll see. We're going to learn from this, we're going to see how that goes. So far I'd say, based on the reaction, there appears to be a lot of demand and interest around Project Scorpio, and we think it's going to be a pretty big success. If the games and the content deliver, which I think they will do, I think it will change the way we think about the future of console gaming."

Sure, it's not a clear-cut statement, but it sounds like the Xbox 360 was Microsoft's last generational console and from here on in your Xbox library will endure in a similar fashion to PC.