Did Microsoft just tease a new Xbox UI?

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Microsoft showed off a “consistent” Xbox UI across handhelds, consoles, and cloud gaming during its Xbox keynote at the Game Developers Conference in March. At the time it was difficult to see if there was anything new about the UI from the videos and photos captured during the event, but Microsoft has now given us a closer look at it thanks to a new video of the keynote that was published earlier today.

Jason Ronald, VP of next generation at Xbox, showed off the UI while mentioning that players had been noticing “a lot of fragmentation within the experience” across devices, and an overall lack of consistency. “What the team has been doing behind the scenes is doing a lot of work to deliver a consistent experience, so it feels very familiar and very distinctly Xbox no matter where you’re choosing to play,” says Ronald.

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