Xbox series was announced in 2019 with Hellblade II....
This was around the end of Xbox empire 2 thread plenty of still active users expected the game will be only a few years away:
The average expectations with xbox empire 3.0 from Hellblade II and MS game studios was basically
Xbox series will launch with Halo Infinite
2021 will be the year for Starfield (Bethesda acquisition in 2020)
2022 will be Hellblade,
Games like Forza 8, Everwild/Next Coalition game/Initiative 's game etc will be all released around 2021-2022.
Obviously Halo Infinite did not made 2020, got delayed with a year and technically 3 years after it's supposed release youtubers like Mint Blitz would state 'it is finally in state that should have been at release'
Starfield did obviously not made it in 2021 but was announced for 11/11/2022 and that was a bit later than hoped, got delayed by almost 10 months and still had so many issues, the 2022 build could not have been great.
Forza motorsport did not made it before 2023 but also not made its spring 2023 announced release shedule and while it got the longest dev cycle of all forza games it still missed some features,
We are still waiting for Everwild/Coalition/Initiatives's game...
So yeah expectations should be high for a game that is announced a long time ago, was shown with the announcement of the Hardware and since then got a bunch of trailers and its own small live concert performance at the TGA's...with maybe its own direct in 2024...
MS studios clearly have/had some issues it is time they show what they can do..
Personally I am just glad that after years of complaining MS finally got its own Japanese studio and that they made basically one of the best games of the year =p
