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Zippy6 said:

gtotheunit91 said:

As nice as it sounds that Xbox is very hands-off when it comes to intervening their studios, it clearly doesn't work as they hope. Half the studios operate just fine whereas the other half struggle. 

You never hear issues with Double Fine, inXile, Obsidian, World's Edge, Turn 10, or Compulsion, but there's obvious issues with 343, The Initiative, and Undead Labs that only in more recent times has Xbox tried to resolve. 343 has been completely gutted as a studio finally and good leadership has been put in place, but that's what I meant that Xbox hasn't really found their identity or footing. Some studios are fine, some aren't, it's not unified in the way you would hope, and rather than focusing on those problems to unify the Xbox platform, they're working on a $70 billion acquisition lol.

Undead Labs. I forgot State of Decay 3 even got announced. Geeees.

Edit: Had to remind myself of what was actually in the pipeline after that sudden realisation SoD3 existed.

Everwild - TBA (Announced November 2019)
Hellblade 2 - TBA (announced December 2019)
Avowed - TBA (Announced July 2020)
Fable - TBA (Announced July 2020)
State of Decay 3 - TBA (announced July 2020)
Perfect Dark - TBA (Announced December 2020)
Contraband - TBA (Announced June 2021)
Outerworlds 2 - TBA (Announced June 2021)

So we'll soon hit the mark where we have 5 games that were announced over 3 years ago and still haven't come out. If that isn't a wakeup call you are managing studios wrong I don't know what is.

Yeah in 2019 and 2020, Xbox announced too many CGI-trailer only games that were too early in development to even announce yet lol. It's not uncommon practice though. We'll have had to wait for almost 4 years for Tears of the Kingdom to release since its first announcement and probably at least 7 years for Metroid Prime 4 lol, or who knows when the Wolverine game from Insomniac is releasing. 

It's very common to announce games too early, but because Xbox first-party output has been so inconsistent, Xbox does get more of the limelight on those shortcomings.

Good news is though that the summer showcase will be about an hour and a half of brand new announcements or updates/release dates from previously announced games. The only games that will have not released that were advertised at E3 2022 is Forza Motorsport and Ara: History Untold. With Starfield getting its own presentation, Xbox gonna have to show everything off that they've been working on. Gameplay and release dates need to happen.