Should Halo Infinite drop Xbox One and go Scarlet exclusive?

[goopy20]

Ryuu96 said:

Trying to prove you aren't concern trolling by using a Tweet from one of the biggest console warrior trolls on Twitter who edited an out of context video...

Games take time to develop, it has nothing to do with their cross-gen strategy, their hardware team is on schedule but their software team is a little behind since the investment was made there relatively recently and big AAA titles don't get made overnight.

They've always said the first 1 - 2 years will be cross-gen focused, Phil has also said it is up to the developer, Halo Infinite was well into development before Series X was even finalised. "Whatever the case, something obviously went horribly wrong and it will have a major impact on the release dates of MS's 1st party studio games." This is a conspiracy theory that makes absolutely zero sense.

No they aren't dropping current gen just yet, Series S is still a thing but they're waiting on Sony to reveal price first. There's a reason you don't have a clue what Xbox is doing anymore and the reason is more on you than them...

Personally, I believe that they're waiting for xCloud to be ready before fully dropping native Xbox One support, future titles will then still technically be playable on Xbox One but only via xCloud, it matches with the release schedule of xCloud too. Example, Avowed will be SX/SS only but playable on Xbox One via xCloud.

Its not about the Tweet, it's about what is being said in the video and Ryan's reaction.

I was wrong to drink the "current-gen won't hold next-gen back" Kool-Aid. I've talked to enough people now. It might make sense for some games, but not AAA, system-seller kinds of big-budget productions.

Cut bait on the old hardware. I wanna see what the new stuff can do.

— Ryan McCaffrey (@DMC_Ryan) August 24, 2020

People do realize that Gears 1 came out on the exact same day the ps3 launched, right? When MS was planning the launch of their new console, don't you think they would've planned to at least have something to showcase the thing too?

I get that a lot of games aren't ready for launch. Hell, Sony will probably show a ton of games that aren't going to come out anytime soon either. But at least they are in a far enough stadium to show us some gameplay snippets. The worrying thing with Series X is that they don't seem to be able to show us a glimpse of gameplay footage at all. Its almost as if they haven't even started working on next gen games yet.

Last edited by goopy20 - on 27 August 2020