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G2ThaUNiT on 16 January 2024
shikamaru317 said:

Spoiler!

Given this new information today, May for Helllblade 2 and 2nd half for Towerborne, these are my release window predictions for each of the expected and possible Xbox games in 2024:

May- Hellblade 2

June- Ara: History Untold

August- Avowed

September- Flight Simulator 2024, Stalker 2 (timed exclusive)

October- Forza Horizon 6, Towerborne

November- Oblivion Remaster

December- Ark 2

????-Indiana Jones

I feel pretty confident on each of those, but Indiana Jones is a bit of a conundrum. The 2nd half of the year is pretty crowded and I'm not sure where it would slot in there. It seems like it would be a Holiday release, and yet we've already heard that Oblivion Remaster will be late 2024 (if it makes 2024 at all) and I can't see Bethesda releasing both in the same month or even one month apart. Meanwhile Shinobi made it seem like release was pretty close. Could be that Xbox is going to have a 2-3 month rapid fire marketing campaign leading up to a release in March or April, or it could be that they will release it sometime in 2nd half, likely on the same month as another Xbox game. I hope we don't have to wait all the way until May for our first Xbox release of the year, Xbox really needs to work on spacing out their games throughout the year. 

Xbox should have a release in Q1 still though I would imagine. 



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shikamaru317 on 16 January 2024
G2ThaUNiT said:
shikamaru317 said:

Spoiler!

 Given this new information today, May for Helllblade 2 and 2nd half for Towerborne, these are my release window predictions for each of the expected and possible Xbox games in 2024:

May- Hellblade 2

June- Ara: History Untold

August- Avowed

September- Flight Simulator 2024, Stalker 2 (timed exclusive)

October- Forza Horizon 6, Towerborne

November- Oblivion Remaster

December- Ark 2

????-Indiana Jones

I feel pretty confident on each of those, but Indiana Jones is a bit of a conundrum. The 2nd half of the year is pretty crowded and I'm not sure where it would slot in there. It seems like it would be a Holiday release, and yet we've already heard that Oblivion Remaster will be late 2024 (if it makes 2024 at all) and I can't see Bethesda releasing both in the same month or even one month apart. Meanwhile Shinobi made it seem like release was pretty close. Could be that Xbox is going to have a 2-3 month rapid fire marketing campaign leading up to a release in March or April, or it could be that they will release it sometime in 2nd half, likely on the same month as another Xbox game. I hope we don't have to wait all the way until May for our first Xbox release of the year, Xbox really needs to work on spacing out their games throughout the year. 

Xbox should have a release in Q1 still though I would imagine. 

I really hope they do, but it's not looking good so far. The two that seemed most likely to be Q1 releases based on how long each has been in development for, Towerborne and Hellblade 2, are now looking like they won't make Q1. Our best hope of a Q1 release now would be either Ara, or Indiana Jones having a very short pre-release marketing campaign of only about 2 months. A shadow drop release like HiFi last year was also shot down today, so I don't think anything new such as a Double Fine game will get announced at the developer direct for release in Q1. 

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DroidKnight on 16 January 2024



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VersusEvil on 16 January 2024

As long as they don’t pull a Sony and have a game releasing on the same day as Dragons Dogma 2 they’ll be fine. And I’m just saying it but they pull the whole …we lied about no shadow drop, here’s a shadow drop! I ain’t touching it. I hate shadow drops.



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shikamaru317 on 16 January 2024

Better finish those discussions soon, nearly 4 years since the first game released on PS4 now. Feels like they should have already nailed down a deal months ago considering that Takashi Kiryu, who is Xbox friendly, replaced Yosuke Matsuda as Square President in May 2023.



coolbeans on 16 January 2024
shikamaru317 said:

Better finish those discussions soon, nearly 4 years since the first game released on PS4 now. Feels like they should have already nailed down a deal months ago considering that Takashi Kiryu, who is Xbox friendly, replaced Yosuke Matsuda as Square President in May 2023.

Maybe Xbox Japan had to show some decent numbers regarding money, interest, etc. before ironing out a deal.  It always seems like they're at the beginning of a locomotion starting up: the slow grind of turning those wheels over until getting a continuous cycle.



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VersusEvil on 16 January 2024

I’m just saying .. when/if FF7 and FF16 is announced for Xbox don’t be surprised if Sony straight up buys SE :P 🫢



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konnichiwa on 17 January 2024
VersusEvil said:

I’m just saying .. when/if FF7 and FF16 is announced for Xbox don’t be surprised if Sony straight up buys SE :P 🫢

It would mean that regulators can force day one releases accross platforms it would not hurt xbox,

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Cat Quest II
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Dragon Prana

About the developers Direct, isn't it assumed that basically every game will be for the first 6 months of the year?

Last year only Forza did not make it and I accept Indiana Jones being later but it is 2024 a release each quarter like they promised themself years ago should be the norm by now.