Should Xbox End their Generation Early?

[Mar1217]

Zippy6 said:

It's annoying. Wolverine was announced too early, and pretty much the entire Xbox lineup was announced too early.

Over 3 years from announce to release is too much. The Xbox Series event in July 2020 is probably the prime example of terrible.

Fable - Still not out
State of Decay 3 - Still not out
Everwild - Still not out
Avowed - Still not out
Hellblade 2 - Still not out
Forza - released now, but over 3 years later.

In hindsight that event was awful because they've completely failed to deliver in a reasonable time.

Here's a rundown of the 1st party game announcements Dec 2019 - September 2021. I think I got most of them. Out of the 11 games announced to this day MS has only released 4 of them. Sony announced 11 games, 10 of which are released and just 1 that will release a long time after being announced.

Would be interesting to see you add the Switch 1st party game announcements list in a similar time frame just to add perspective here.

Edit : 

Btw, didn't Xbox announce the Perfect Dark reboot by The Initiative Studio and Crystal Dynamics in 2020 which was allegedly in dev hell and also announced to be "years from now" last summer. Another one to add in your list 👌

Last edited by Mar1217 - on 27 December 2023