Lmao.

Ahhhh, man.

I hope this accounts for the Covid delay.

So many insiders wrong if Jason is right, if it's late 2022 then those "Microsoft wants it out for 2021" rumours were definitely bullshit, I don't see Microsoft being that delusional, even Grubb's recent "Spring" assertion is way off.

Also if right, Avowed is definitely not 2022.

Better hope Omen, Typhoon, Wolfenstein III and Forza Horizon 5 are releasing between Sep 21 - June 22.

My pessimistic release date prediction for ES6 is looking more likely now Heck maybe I'm even being a bit optimistic with it!

Well, we said that Bethesda would practically be saving Xbox for the first few years right? Given XGS pipeline was only invested in around 18 + Covid delay, they did in fairness release quite a few titles last year (around 10) but they were mostly smaller projects and existing contracts, I think we have to rely on XGP to pull something out the bag but XGP is too hard to predict.

They'll likely be some smaller projects from XGS, I would assume Motorsport too if Horizon is this year, not sure what else but I am expecting Bethesda + XGP + Motorsport for the most part.

Once again, I'm feeling really sorry for 343, Lmao, if Halo Infinite doesn't deliver then there's going to be a lot of criticism towards Xbox, 343 is carrying all that weight on their shoulders once again, Starfield could have alleviated some of that but not if it isn't coming until late 2022.

Like even if Halo Infinite is just "good" we'll have the usual trolls, hopefully it's closer to the 90 mark than not.

Maybe Wolfenstein III and Omen will be fairly soon but who knows, I may give up on predicting release dates

In short, I don't trust Schreier on this claim of his today. His claim that Starfield is late 2022 goes against about 6 other insiders who all believed that Starfield would be a late 2021 release until the recent delay to 2022, and now all of those other insiders believe it is Q2 2022 at the latest. It also goes against Ed saying that Microsoft already bought Holiday 2021 commercial slots for Starfield, they wouldn't have done that and then delayed the game a whole year, a few months at most, unless the game was in a terrible shape, like Halo Infinite was when it got a full year delay. 

Yeah, XGS really dropped the ball I must say. Or more specifically, I should say that XGS-P, Xbox Game Studios Publishing (formerly known as Xbox Global Publishing), dropped the ball. XGS 1st party wise, there wasn't much that Booty could do to remedy their release gap situation, most of the studios they acquired in 2018 and 2019 already had other projects that they were contracted out to do, which MS had an obligation to allow them to finish, so those studios couldn't begin work on their 1st Xbox exclusives projects until 2018, 2019, or even 2020 in some cases like inXile. But knowing that XGS 1st party wouldn't be able to deliver a large number of projects for the 9th gen launch and the first few years of 9th gen, Xbox Global Publishing should have immediately began development on multiple AA and AAA 2nd party projects back in 2018 and 2019, so that they would have plenty of big 2nd party exclusives to fill in the gaps in Xbox's exclusive release schedule for the first 3 years of the 9th generation in 2020, 2021, and 2022, but instead XGP seemingly only put a single AAA 2nd party project in development in 2018 or 2019, Avalanche's Project Typhoon, the rest of the 2nd party AAA projects we are hearing about are either early development (meaning they just started development in late 2020 or early 2021) or haven't even been greenlit yet (Kojima's game). XGP really, truly dropped the ball. The Bethesda acquisition saved Microsoft from having a truly terrible release schedule for the first few years of the generation. 

And that right there is one of the reasons why I think Schreier is wrong. Matty, ESO, and Skullzi all have sources within Bethesda, and all 3 were on the Starfield Holiday 2021 train, at least until recently, when we started hearing that it got delayed to 1st half 2022. Then you have Ed with his evidence of Microsoft buying advertising space for Starfield Holiday 2021. This just doesn't add up. Only way I see a full year delay is if Phil took a look at the state of the game just recently and realized it was a Halo Infinite tier mess currently.