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Microsoft CEO: I've Never Been More Excited About Xbox's Pipeline Of Games

"Great content remains the flywheel behind our growth. We have now surpassed 500 million lifetime unique users across our first-party titles."

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Literally days ago, Satya commenting on Xbox's future line-up, without Activision-Blizzard-King.

Satya knows the importance of 1st party content.

Also, I want to share this post from a user over on ResetEra.

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PianoBlack Said:

I don't blame anyone who's feeling disappointed about ABK or whatever but man. It's nuts to me to see people acting like MS is just lost, confused, hasn't done anything good this gen.

First party organization A
12 games since next gen launch
85.6 average MC score
86.5 median MC score

First party organization B
10 games since next gen launch
84.4 average MC score
86.5 median MC score

Again - you don't enjoy the output, whatever, that's fine. Not everyone's gonna love Pentiment and Flight Sim, totally fair. But let's not pretend that there's some universal mismanagement going on with no games ever released and whatever other nonsense.

I'm sure it's pretty obvious but A is MS and B is Sony. I didn't count MLB or Minecraft since they don't really get treated like meaningful first party games. If you include those it looks like this:

Microsoft/Bethesda
13 games
84.5 average
86 median

PlayStation Studios
13 games
83.2 average
85 median

The "big" games are coming. They got delayed past what we expected. So did all of Sony's big games, by the way. Remember when they had to walk back removing the "launch window" discount on Horizon Forbidden West nearly 18 months after launch? It sucks but it is what it is. And I know we've been hearing it forever, but it is all going to start paying off. It is mathematically impossible for the floodgates to stay closed forever.

Here are the studios with 3 years or more in dev:

Arkane Austin - Redfall releases this year after 6 years
Bethesda Game Studios - Starfield releases this year after 8 years
Coalition - 4 years since last full release
Compulsion - 5 years since last full release
id - 3 years since last full release
Initiative - Perfect Dark in development for ~4 years
InXile - 3 years since last full release
MachineGames - 6 years since last full release
Ninja Theory - Hellblade 2 in development for ~5 years
Obsidian - Avowed in development for ~6 years
Playground - Fable in development for ~5 years
Turn10 - Forza Motorsport releases this year after 6 years
Rare - Everwild in development for ~6 years
Undead Labs - SOD3 in development for ~5 years

That's 14 titles that are probably coming in the next three years. That's not counting "known" follow ons like Outer Worlds 2 or Forza Horizon 6. And that's not counting publishing. Stoic. Avalanche. Brass Lion. Oxide. Kojima. Maybe IOI and Certain Affinity and whoever else. We're probably looking at something like 5 or 6 "big" first party games every year in 2024, 2025, and 2026.

And I'm confident we're gonna get our first glimpse of this wave on June 11.