I doubt Avowed is going to be that big. Didn't they already confirm it is smaller than Skyrim by a good bit? If it's say 2x the size of The Outer Worlds (which sounds like a reasonable size for a new IP from a 100-130 developer team developed in 4 and a half years), I should still be able to beat it in 2-3 weeks before Starfield lands. If they can make September on Avowed, even better, but I don't know if they can. 

But I definitely don't want to see Starfield delayed into 2023, when it was already delayed by a whole year (unofficially at least). And I don't want to see Avowed delayed into 2023 either honestly, Xbox is going to need all of the AAA exclusives they can muster in 2022 to compete with Sony's 2022 AAA lineup of Horizon: Forbidden West, God of War 5, Gran Turismo 7, Forspoken, and Ghostwire Tokyo (who knows, Sony might even have a 6th AAA exclusive for 2022). So far Microsoft's 2022 has only 3 confirmed AAA exclusives/timed exclusives, STALKER 2, Redfall, and Starfield. They will need at least 2 more to compete against Sony's 5 AAA's, preferably 3 more for 6 MS vs 5 Sony. Forza Motorsport reboot should make 2022 to counter GT7, so that is good, but Hellblade 2 is looking like it won't make 2022 to counter God of War 5. So MS preferably needs to release at least 2 of these 3 AAA games in 2022: CrossFireX, Avowed, and Contraband. 

Unfortunately I think they won't do that anymore, I think they'll just shove all the 360 titles onto xCloud and consider that to be good enough, which Tbh, it wouldn't be, xCloud is years away from being viable and an official emulator on Windows Store would be vastly superior but I think they're just going to consider it to be not worth the effort.

Man this place is deader than Noble's sex life on the weekend.

Yall lookin forward to the PS event? I know it's not Xbox related, but I'm assuming we'll see some multiplat games. Harry Potter I'm hoping. Wondering what Sony will show and maybe how MS will react.

I definitely think Microsoft mainly cares about having a steady supply of Gamepass releases and making sure the games are good, as opposed to direct exclusive comparisons with Sony, but the fans online certainly care about the list wars, it'll be a bad look if Xbox can't at least match Sony's 5 AAA's for 2022, especially since Microsoft's 1st party is twice the size of Sony's. 

As for Sony's 5 AAA's for 2022, I could maybe see one of them being delayed into 2023, but we'll have to wait and see. Here is what we know about each of the 5:

• Horizon: Forbidden West- Began development most likely immediately after Horizon: Zero Dawn released in January 2017, so it will have 5 total years of development by it's planned February 2022 release. Should be safe from any delay, and definitely safe from a delay all the way into 2022
• God of War 5/Ragnarok- Began development most likely as soon as God of War 4 released in April 2018, meaning that it should have 4 or more years of development if it releases after April 2022. Possible candidate for delay, but considering God of War 4 itself was made in 4 years, I would be surprised if they can't make God of War 5 in 4 and a half years or less, even with Covid issues.
• Gran Turismo 7- Development began after GT Sport released October 2017. Because GT7 is designed to build off of the car and track list in GT Sport, alot of the work was already done even before 2017. Was already delayed once, from 2021 into 2022, likely safe from a 2nd delay into 2023. 
• Ghostwire: Tokyo- Exact start of development is unknown, but rumored to have begun development in early 2017. Already delayed once, from 2021 into 2022, likely safe from a 2nd delay into 2023. 
• Forspoken- Development began when Luminous Productions was founded in March 2018 primarily out of former members of the Final Fantasy XV dev team from Square Enix Business Division 2. However, the game saw some early leadership shake-ups when FFXV director Hajime Tabata quit Luminous Productions in October 2018, and Takeshi Aramaki replaced him as director on Forspoken. According to a Playstation video from CES 2021 earlier this year, Forspoken at the time was aiming for a January 2022 release, could the game be delayed all the way from January 2022 to 2023? Possible, but unlikely probably. 

You could just use image search on Google if you just want to see everything as fast as possible from the world^^

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries coming to PlayStation.

So damn confused about these FASA IP...I know that Microsoft owns the video game rights to all FASA IP and then licenses them out to other studios, including Piranha Games (MechWarrior) and Harebrained Schemes (Shadowrun, Crimson Skies) but I suppose they're letting them do whatever they want with the IP and have no clauses about releasing on competing platforms.

It's weird, Phil speaks a lot about FASA IP but never really does anything with them, instead opting to license them out and having nothing to do with the production, funding, etc, basically acting like they don't own the IP at all but they do...Does this mean Harebrained could release Crimson Skies/MechAssault/Shadowrun on Playstation? It looks like it honestly.

It's just odd, for how much Phil goes on about FASA IP, they couldn't be any further distanced from them, Lol, it looks more like they want nothing to do with them...Despite regularly praising them and they even renewed the license in 2020 with Piranha so it ain't like this is some old clause biting them in the ass.

Imo, Phil should put his money where his mouth is, FASA IP shouldn't be licensed out, Xbox should actually be involved with funding (as of right now, Xbox provides zero funding with the license so that limits scope a little). Shadowrun, MechWarrior, Crimson Skies, etc, should be done under Xbox Game Publishing to bring them back in a big way.

Better yet, revive FASA with Jordan Weisman at the helm if he is willing and bring everything in house again or acquire Harebrained and Piranha Games if they can, Piranha can work on the Mech IPs (Warrior/Assault) and Harebrain can work on the rest (Crimson Skies, Shadowrun).