| konnichiwa said: -Snip- |
"Xbox series was announced in 2019 with Hellblade II...."
Cause it was a graphical showcase, not sure why that is so hard to understand...Did all the games revealed alongside Xbox 360 and Xbox One turn out to be massive blockbusters? Graphical showcase =/= Most important exclusive ever, I mean honestly, we're expecting Hellblade 2 now to be bigger than Forza Horizon 5, Starfield and Halo Infinite? Lol.
"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"
Announced in 2019, users expected the game to be around 3 years away, that means 2022. It is releasing in 2024. Those users were apparently only 2 years wrong and what happened in 2020? Hmm. I can't quite put my finger on it...Something major happened to the world but I can't remember what! Something that may explain why the users could be a little off.
"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"
So those expectations by your claim were wrong by 1 year, 2 years and 2 years, Lol. Again, COVID can easily explain the inaccuracy of our predictions in many cases or just overly optimistic on our part as videogames nowadays are taking longer than ever to develop. We have Insomniac saying a Spider-Man takes 5 years to develop now and that's a sequel and established IP and Insomniac are a huge studio and one of the most efficient.
"Games like Forza 8, Everwild/Next Coalition game/Initiative 's game etc will be all released around 2021-2022."
I have quite a lot of doubt on this statement that anyone in Empire expected The Initiative to release their game in 2021-2022 when we knew back in 2018 that The Initiative had only just physically set up their studio and started hiring for their project, Lol. Even if back then we assumed the average development time was 3 years, why would you apply that to a new studio created from the ground up?
"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..."
So Hellblade II should be considered Xbox's most important exclusive (more important than Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Starfield) because it was announced alongside hardware (as a graphical showcase), had a few trailers (like basically every game in existence) and had (by your own admission) a "small" live concert performance at TGAs. Got it...Makes sense, Lol.
Honestly I'd say Avowed is more likely to get its own Direct simply because Avowed will offer WAY more content to show than Hellblade.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 25 December 2023
