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EpicRandy said:

My guess on no Xbox trailer at the TGA is simply that they couldn't because it would actually harm them.

IMO MS have been trying for the past 18 months to transition from showing projects way to early (which they were force to do to generate hype for their new system release) to showing projects much closer to release. This obviously create a big gap where it is difficult to make new announcement or else the early announcement cycle continue.

Still they could have shown new trailer/gameplay video already announced titles but not really at the same time, the problem is those titles are either 2024+ or already have been their focus of past events. MS certainly don't want their 2023 projects to look like it's all they have when other actors are actually announcing new title for 2023, especially when 2 of 2023 most awaited titles ( which most likely would have been MS focus at TGA) have just been acquired.

This would have resulted in a spike in the kind of discussion MS want to tone down in the light of the merger reviews.

If that was the case they still should have been able to show their 2nd half 2023 games. If they were able to show games releasing in the next year last E3 (June 2022-June 2023), they should have been able to show games releasing in the next year at The Game Awards (December 2022-December 2023). We know nothing about what Xbox is releasing in the 2nd half of 2023 currently, we just have speculation based on leaks and how long games have been in development for (those speculated 2nd half games include Contraband, Avowed, Project Belfry, Project Mara, Hellblade 2, and Wolfenstein 3 typically. We obviously wont get all of those as that would make the 2nd half of the year too crowded, but those are ones that we know should be the closest to being finished, as each of them has been in development since 2018 or 2019).

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 12 December 2022