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smroadkill15 said:

gtotheunit91 said:

I personally would love to have it be an 18-month window. Especially for the big summer showcases. Not only would you be able to cover that years holiday releases, but also tease the tentpole releases of the following holiday season. Doesn't have to show much, but could be enough to merit a trailer and a "Holiday 2024" display or something like that so fans know what else is on the horizon. First half of the year for Xbox releases are usually pretty slow overall, so it allows for excitement to build not just for that year, but the following year as well. 

I hear what you're saying. The problem with 18 months is there is more uncertainty for games between 12–18-month window. Studios are probably not ready to show anything that far out, and we get back into CGI trailer territory. Then showcase announcements for the holiday get repeated with the following showcase. The 18-month format is what Xbox has pretty much always done in the past without official saying it. The fun part with 12-month window is the potential of surprise fall-winter releases for that current year. At the very least MS should stick with this 12-month format for at least this upcoming showcase to really show its potential. 

Lets say Fable is Holiday 24 (#Doubt, Lol) but if it were then I would simply do a Story trailer or something, that's seriously enough for me, Lol.

I do understand that it can be annoying to see the same game over and over again which I've even complained about before but I think it's actually even more damaging to reveal titles then go completely radio silent on them for years on end, which is what Xbox has done for Fable, State of Decay 2, Perfect Dark, Avowed, etc.

I don't think Xbox has really seriously done an "18 month" format, it has in recent history been more like a "3-5 year" format, Lol. Which is on the opposite end of bad, but it was understandable why they had to do it at the time, I feel like with the "12 month" format they have slightly overcorrected and I'm just asking to adjust a little bit to 18 months.

Some of these titles could really do with an update, the complete dead silence also helps to fuel some of these nonsense drama stories about "development hell" as well, oh a little bump in development, must be development hell, taking a few years to develop, must be development hell, it's so tiring to listen to, Lol. If the titles actually had updates to them then at least they'd be a somewhat better way to counter the narratives than leaving it up to "insiders" to hash it out and spread a bunch of rumours.

I can't wait until E3 2024 to see Fable...

But it looks like I'm in the minority