According to the latest reports, Microsoft will be creating the latest Xbox Scorpio with the same frame rate as the current generation of Xbox One console.
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Effective immediately, content for the Xbox One’s virtual personal trainer is no longer available to purchase, while any workouts purchased by users will remain available for one more year before being completely inaccessible on July 1, 2017.
Xbox Fitness launched in 2013 alongside Xbox One.
I haven’t used Xbox Fitness specifically, but my best experiences with the Kinect (on Xbox One and 360) tended to be dancing or fitness related, so I can imagine this news being pretty damn disheartening for folks who are still keeping up with a regimen and have no intention of stopping.
We’ve reached out to Microsoft about the status of refunds for content purchased for Xbox Fitness. When the Xbox One was first revealed, Xbox Fitness was a highly touted experience that was meant to help spur use of the Kinect sensor while also offering living room-based health and fitness related content. Microsoft’s partnership with Oculus will make Xbox Scorpio compatible with the Oculus Rift, a top-of-the-line VR headset released past year.
My colleague Jeff Grubb’s wife, Stephanie Grubb, was a fan of Xbox Fitness.
Starting December 15 of this year, Microsoft will be doing away with the “Free with Gold” offer, which allows Gold members to play the 30-ish streaming workouts for free.
“Given the service relies on providing you with new and exciting content regularly, Microsoft has given much consideration to the reality updating the service regularly in order to sustain it”, Microsoft’s Erica Bell revealed in a post to the Microsoft Studios blog.
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The company ended sales of all Xbox Fitness programs today, June 27.
