It doesn’t have to be AAA games, they just need to try to not have weak months, A Plague Tale Requiem is probably the biggest game that they will have for GamePass day one this year with Stalker/Atomic Heart/Starfield/RedFall all missing their release dates.

Three games that I can think of are SteelRising, Evil West and Crimson Desert(this one isn’t officially confirmed for 2022 though).

They can also pay 2K to put Wonderlands on Gamepass unless Sony has marketing for that game, same can be said for WB and Lego Star Wars.

Fuuuuuuuck you just gave me another thing to worry about

But I mean, where else would they have deep dives in that would get as many eyes as possible? I love Quakecon but it's a very niche convention. TGA is way too late for a deep dive. Unless Bethesda just posts 30 minute videos on theirs and Xbox's YouTube channels at some point in the not too distant future lol

I don't think anything that happen before the game release matters at all. Your comment on Xbox not doing that for you is it based on Xbox game announcement or on Xbox lack of really great quality games? I can give you a list of all the great games that I played and really couldn't care less how it was announced.  Microsoff; especially last Gen; suffered from not having enough quality games. Hype, announcements, CGI vs Gameplay, delays all of this doesn't make a great game. 

People hate not having great games to play a lot more than CGI trailers. Microsoft was missing great games for their system and still have a long way to go to prove themselves. Microsoft never had this many games in development before and this many chances of actually getting great quality games. Vertical slice demo and in-engine trailer only add to the game development time. 

Except for Forza none of the top games on Xbox one were made by Microsoft. Microsoft is not missing In-engine trailer or demo of Forbidden West, Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us 2 and God of war; what they are really missing is top AAA games like that list. 

List of games potentially releasing specifically in the early part or first half of 2023 is really starting to grow lol. So far we've got

Starfield
Redfall
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Dead Space remake
Breath of the Wild 2
Contraband
Avatar
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Skull and Bones
Stalker 2
Atomic Heart

And that's assuming other major titles like Hogwarts Legacy and Gotham Knights don't get delayed into the same timeframe.

Now, I'm going to go into the June showcase with no expectations. Can't be disappointed if you're not expecting much :)

I will say that MS is definitely the worst offender (out of the big three) when announcing games with CGI trailers and then going several years before releasing the game. Nintendo does it rather sparingly and Sony probably more than Nintendo but less than MS. With that said, I can't say I'm THAT bothered by it largely due to the fact that there are plenty of other games releasing this year (mainly on the Switch) that I plan on picking up. It does suck though if you only play on Xbox.

What the hell is Bad Robot Games? I know it's a part of J.J. Abrams movie production studio, but the only game to this "studio's" credit is something called Action Movie FX.....only for iOS.....in 2011. Am I missing something here?

That's an interesting question!

For me, either id Software or Obsidian. id purely for bias sake being from Dallas lol. Especially if John Carmack ever comes back. The legendary technical capabilities of the studio throughout the years is among the top of the top. The chance to also meet and greet fans at Quakecon and not to mention the FPS greatness I would help make. I would love to help work on that rumored Quake reboot! If you were from Dallas in the late 90s into the early 2000s, you knew about id. My first introduction to Quake was my schools computer lab our teacher was a huge id fan and he had every one of the computers with one of the original trilogy of Quake games even though we were far too young to playing these games lol. Not to mention local gaming events. Doesn't matter where in the DFW metroplex you were. If you were at some sort of gaming event that wasn't Quakecon, an id game is still what was being played. I got super excited when we moved 5 minutes from id Software's office despite it not meaning jack crap lol

Obsidian has soooooo many legendary RPG developers that I could learn so much from and hear so many stories going back to the original Fallout days. Being able to work on upcoming games like Avowed and Outer Worlds 2, working with Obsidian's top notch writers would just be a dream come true! I always see hundreds of tabletop games in Obsidian video backgrounds that I can picture after a long day of making a game, that we get to play a tabletop game afterwards lol. 

To me the Redfall CG trailer was a bust since what they shown had me really disappointed and I was not interested in the game. But, turn out the game is actually the type of game I would really enjoy playing. But then again people need to understand these are simply marketing tools and doesn't reflect final product. Microsoft as actually made progress in letting you know if the trailer behind shown is actually in-engine.  

The biggest problem is people making their buying decision on hype rather than informing themselves. The people that got burn on Cyberpunk 2077 and demanded a refund deserve to lose their money for pre-ordering something that was unknown. There is no scarcity in video games release anymore there is absolutely zero reason to pre-order and review come out on the same day of release if not a few days before game release. 

Anyone can get hype on anything but if you were to make a recommendation base solely on CG trailer you should revalue your own integrity. A game like State of Decay 3, you should at least know what to expect and is often why sequel are better received compare to unknown new IPs.  I'm hype for State of Decay 3 but that's only because I've been playing crap load of State of Decay 2 and seeing the care they put in supporting and updating that game. Unfortunately, State of Decay 3 is still in pre-development as per that Kotaku article and no one should be expecting that game any time soon. 

There also the entire social problem with game development mismanagement, burnout, crunch time and misogyny that plague the industry. Everyone always get upset, shocked and wants these problem to go away. You ear a lot of people not wanting to support publisher like EA, Ubisoft or anyone caught having any of these issues. Well fixing all these issues that is affecting game development will result in much longer development time. People are upset from this Redfall and Starfield delays but what that mean is that Microsoft or Bethesda has made the decisions to not crunch and burnout the employees. 

Maybe this works faster than Google and MS Support...

I got a Series X, pressed some button and it said it uploaded a screenshot somewhere. Where did it upload it to so I can delete it lol. I turned the auto upload stuff off after finding it in settings, but it doesn't say where they go.

Awesome machine but wow I thought the UI in GT7 was bad :/ I'm having lots of issues navigating around the dash board. For example how do you put it in standby mode so it keeps downloading? I wanted to continue with Forza 7 today which let me play a bit yesterday but then it had to download more. I turned the box off expecting it to keep downloading the game, it didn't. So where the heck is this standby mode? I only see turn off as an option.under power.

Also my kid wanted to try Forza 7 but it said it would erase my save if he would start the game. Is that because it wasn't fully downloaded yet? Or because it was in quick resume on my name. (As I said I just turned the box off, no idea it would put it in quick resume. How do you turn that off if that's what's preventing other accounts to use a game)