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konnichiwa on 01 May 2023
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Ryuu96 said:

Need June to come ASAP. Lol. Xbox needs a reset for the 2nd half of the year, next fiscal year. They started the year so brilliant with Hi-Fi Rush and the Dev Direct but then the Activision-Blizzard-King block and Redfall's reviews sucked the energy out of the room. I would still say 2023 so far is a lot better than 2022 aligned but that's not a high bar because nothing released until like July, Lol.

Although, nothing much released in 2021 until the Holiday season too so probably launch aligned, Hi-Fi Rush > Nothing, Lol. Legends is pretty fun too.

Starting June, they need to have a big showcase, they need to abandon the next 12 months and show a updates to titles further out (I.E. Fable) to install some confidence back into them. Marketing needs revamp and a new push, I liked the start of the year they had that Game Pass branding and it felt like it would be a continued theme but it went nowhere.

They need to stop talking about Activision-Blizzard-King, they need to consider it dead at this point and put all their attention back into the current Xbox, they should do another Dev Direct shortly after E3 and show up to all major events. Make some more acquisitions too of certain individual studios to bolster their support network.

This year can still be great with Starfield, Forza Motorsport & Hellblade II but they need to put their full attention on those now, do everything to get them out to a high standard and on time, it's time to forget everything about Activision-Blizzard and consider it dead, it's too much of a distraction. Microsoft legal can handle the rest, Phil shouldn't be involved anymore and move full steam ahead on those releases with a new marketing campaign.

1) You create confidence with releasing good/great content or having those so called W.  A trailer and some gameplay creates potential hype but not so much confidence.
2) Agree and disagree with the 12 months, Agree with not mentioning 12 months but they should have the majority of the games shown with an expected release date between now and 12 months (if they expect first half of 2024 for game X it should be shown in the showcase but don't say it will release for sure in the first half, have a dev direct later to give us the release date).

3) No doubt the year can be great, personally more excited about the stuff we don't know that have the potential to release this year. Starfield has 11th of june to create confidence and hype.  Hellblade II, don't know how people really feel about the game, feels like a 'oh yeah that game exist' and some of us for sure will try,  Forza tho.....the community is really not having it,  200 cars less than the last forza game thats what the community can swallow but having 12 tracks less than the last one and the lowest number of tracks since FM2 is dissapointing.  If they announce great support after its launch, bimonthly updates with new cars/tracks for free as an example it will be fine.