shikamaru317 said:
Ryuu96 said:
I wonder what the next Developer Direct will be.
January
- Towerborne
- Hellblade II
- Avowed
Lets see if they reveal anything else later in the year for 2024.
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I would be shocked if they didn't have anything else for 2024. So many possibilities:
- Contraband development should have started in 2019 or early 2020 at the latest, so I would be surprised if it doesn't make 2024 (only reason I think it wasn't on this showcase is because gameplay wasn't quite ready to show and they wanted to show gameplay rather than just in-engine I'm guess).
- Fable and Clockwork Revolution both looked far enough along in development to possibly make a late 2024 release considering both had gameplay footage present in their trailers, though 2025 seems more likely for both imo.
- Project Mara development started in late 2019, and last we heard it was a roughly 2 hour long game. Unless the scope of the game has been massively expanded, or unless all of the developers were pulled off it to help finish Hellblade 2 faster, I just don't see how they could fail to release it sometime in 2024
Then you have the studios who don't have announced projects, but have been developing their games for awhile now and have a possibility of making 2024:
- id Software (should have started on their next game as soon as Doom Eternal released in March 2020, with the full team moving over after DLC 2 released in March 2021. A possibility of 2024 here, but 2025 or 2026 seems more likely)
- Arkane Lyon (Deathloop released in 2021. While 3 years of development time might not seem like enough for their next game, Arkane Lyon has proven to be a speedy developer in the past, releasing Dishonored 2 in 2016, Dishonored Death of the Outsider a year later in 2017, Wolfenstein Youngblood 2 years later in 2019 (though it was co-developed with Machine), and Deathloop 2 years later in 2021. Releasing a game with only 3 years of development is probably more of a possibility for Arkane Lyon than almost any other developer in Xbox's stable, except for the Playground Racing team and Double Fine.
- Playground Games racing team (Playground Games made Forza Horizon 1-4 each with 2 years of development. Forza Horizon 5 then received 3 years of development. 2024 marks 3 years since Forza Horizon 5, so there is definitely a chance of Horizon 6 releasing in 2024)
- Double Fine (Began development on multiple projects after Psychonauts 2 released in 2021. Double Fine were able to release at least 1 game per year almost every year in their history, often more than 1 game per year, their release schedule only slowing down to release Psychonauts 2, the first game they ever developed that required the entire studio working together to develop. Depending on the size and scope of the multiple projects they began developing in 2021, there is a definite chance that at least one of them is ready to release in 2024)
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Well they also have Flight Sim 24 but I'm not sure if they'd put that in the Developer Direct.
But yeah I think they should have more than that too.
Hi-Fi Rush was a complete shadow drop after-all and we still have 2 events at minimum (Gamescom/TGA) to announce something for 2024, likely 3 events if another Developer Direct happens in January 2024.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 14 June 2023
