And he hints that Xbox may be saving some of its showings for "other events during the year, other beats that we want to hit," then goes on to say Xbox wants to "manage expectations" on how it shows what's coming up, offering Clockwork Revolution as an example. He says that he's done "recent visits" to the studios behind all the games I mentioned, played recent builds, and knows where they're at. What's going on with all those other studios, then? Booty reassures that nothing is amiss. State of Decay 3, Perfect Dark, Elder Scrolls 6, Gears of War, Everwild, and more were conspicuously missing from the presentation, Avowed's release window was a fairly generous "2024," and Fable didn't get a release window at all. Starfield and Forza will do some heavy lifting, true, but a number of Xbox Game Studios are still waiting in the wings with their respective projects missing entirely from the presentation. And while he doesn't outright say it, his description of the future is tempered - we're not about to be drowning in Xbox blockbusters all at once. I’ve got some hands-on confidence that everything for the next 18 months, I know what shape it’s in, there’s not a lot of fliers there."īooty calls 2022 specifically an "interesting year in a lot of facets," nodding to the fact that the company had to lean on much smaller-scale games, such as Pentiment, Grounded, and Minecraft Legends, to headline its portfolio.
"Everything, as I look forward from here, today, going to the end of 2024, I have seen builds of the games. “I feel like we’ve got that rhythm and that cadence going across our studios," Booty says.
What we saw yesterday, he continues, is "the first turn of the crank" under Xbox's banner for studios like Compulsion Games, inXile, and Obsidian, and assures that there is plenty more to come. They had to wrap up these projects before they could work on the kind of major Xbox games that fans were expecting. He explains in an interview with IGN that the delay in part is a symptom of many of Xbox's acquisitions at the time having unfinished projects and DLC obligations. Booty feels that Xbox's time is here at last.
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