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Ryuu96 on 18 January 2024
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shikamaru317 said:
Ryuu96 said:

It is slightly annoying that Xbox missed Q1 again, Lmao. It's like they are allergic to it. But on the other hand, I'm going to be busy with Infinite Wealth and Dragon's Dogma 2 so I don't care much, it's just repeating the "one major title every quarter" and them always missing Q1 is a bit shooting themselves in the foot. But at least we have Hellblade II for Q2 and Q3/Q4 looks fucking ridiculously stacked between Indiana Jones, Avowed, Call of Duty, Towerborne, Flight Simulator 24 and if anything else makes it but you could probably do Towerborne/Flight Sim in September, Avowed in October, Indiana Jones and COD in November. Flight Sim could be earlier, it may be something they decide doesn't really need major advertising and just drop it randomly, Lol.

Just drop the dang ABK backlog into Game Pass in March, at least that'll be something big for Q1, Lol. 

Yeah, they definitely need to finally get these release pacing issues in check in 2025. 2024 is looking like a single game in the first half of the year, and then 7 or 8 probably in the 2nd half of the year. That is far from ideal. For one thing Gamepass needs content spread out more to help keep people subbed. Secondly, releasing like 7 or 8 games in 6 months can lead to the smaller games getting lost in the fray and not played as much as they deserve to be played. 

I kind of hope they do end up delaying a few of the games that were possibly going to make late 2024 such as Contraband and Oblivion Remaster and maybe even Horizon 6 into first half 2025 just so that 2025 won't have the same release pacing problems as 2024. The 2nd half of 2025 is already likely to be pretty crowded with games like Clockwork Revolution, South of Midnight, Fable, Perfect Dark, and maybe even id's next game (March 2020-late 2025 is 5 and a half years development time on their next game), so would be better to release games like Contraband, Forza Horizon 6, or Oblivion Remaster in first half 2025, rather than trying to stuff them into an already busy 2nd half 2024. 

They do but what annoys me more is just the comments then failing, but if we're being honest all they needed is just one major release in Q1 and they'd meet their target, it only took one, could have just delayed Forza Motorsport, nobody would have cared, Lol. Otherwise just stop talking about one major release every quarter until you recognise Q1 is a quarter, it feels like Microsoft has something against Q1, Lol.

But as for pacing, Microsoft released Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite on top of each other, they released Goldeneye HD, Age of Empires II for Xbox and Hi-Fi Rush within a week of each other, sometimes you get the impression that Microsoft doesn't give a shit about spacing things out, Lmao. Maybe Game Pass helps with that because you have 30m subscribers that even if they don't play it day one, have access to that title for whenever they do get around to it and thus "spreading out" just becomes a "backlog" which encourages remaining an active subscriber.

I think Forza Horizon 6 if it isn't 2024 will be Holiday 2025 because I think Fable will be early 2025.

I think this would be safe.

  • August - Flight Simulator 2024
  • September - Towerborne
  • October - Avowed
  • November - Call of Duty

But uh, Indiana Jones either goes up against COD or misses TGA's cut-off date (meh who cares).