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).

Yeah, bummer Forza Motorsport was delayed to this year because it had a non-committal "2023" release window only at last years Direct lol

I mean they revealed Indiana Jones this year so if it gets delayed till next year....still better than getting announcements of games being in development but not seeing anything in years (Elder scrolls 6, Dragon Quest 3-HD, Kingdom Hearts IV).

Fair point.  I'm still holding to it getting delayed though.  There are other background details (some things like animations still look a bit rough, stacked back-half of releases, etc.) leaning towards it coming March/April 2025.

Based on insiders "a lot sooner than we think" and it honestly looking close to ready to launch already, I'm not as convinced, it could slip, but it could be them just figuring out a date being non-committal until others announce their dates, really no rush to put an exact date on something releasing in 2nd half and "Fall" is *almost* as broad as "2024" when we break it down into "2nd half" since "Fall" covers September - December, Lol.

Also could be Bethesda marketing, all XGS titles have Fall dated, Bethesda has "2024"

They could be scarred from the stupid dating of Starfield a year from release and completely missing it

(It's a cosplay guide but still, Lol).

Yeah, it's getting to the point now where they are going to run into overcrowded release schedule issues more and more often, which is why they really need to start taking better advantage of the first half of each year. The schedule of upcoming 1st/2nd party games for Xbox is looking insane honestly:

Announced Games

• Hellblade 2
• Avowed
• Ara
• Flight Simulator 2024
• Indiana Jones
• Contraband
• Towerborne
• Everwild
• Perfect Dark
• Fable
• State of Decay 3
• Clockwork Revolution
• South of Midnight
• The Elder Scrolls 6
• Project Mara
• OD
• The Outer Worlds 2
• Age of Mythology Retold
• Blade
• Blizzard's as yet untitled Survival Game

Unannounced Games that should already be at least 2/3rds completed as of now

• CoD Black Ops Gulf War (3 years dev time as of November last year)
• id Software's next game (4 years dev time in March this year)
• Double Fine smaller game #1 and #2 (2+ years dev time on each, and in the past Double Fine showed that they could release multiple smaller games per year)
• The Coalition's next game, whether it be the smaller game they were said to be working on as a testbed title for Gears 6, Gears Collection, or Gears 6 itself (3+ years dev time currently on their next project or projects)
• Forza Horizon 6 (2+ years dev time already, and the longest in development Horizon game had 3 years dev time)

Unannounced Games that are further out from release, less than 2/3rds done currently most likely

• Sledgehammer's next CoD (sequel to CoD Black Ops 2 releasing in 2025 according to a recent leak)
• Infinity Ward's next CoD (2026 release presumably unless something changes and Phil decides to do away with yearly CoD)
• Zenimax Online Project Kestrel (3+ years dev time, they started hiring for the new IP in late 2018, officially opened a new studio for the new IP in December 2020, 3 years ago)
• Project Suerte (Certain Affinity developed Monster Hunter-like)
• Project Shaolin (Brass Lion developed kung-fu RPG with Wu Tang Clan branding and involvement)
• Project Maverick (People Can Fly developed, only began development in 2023 so quite a few years before it releases) 
• Arkane Austin's next game
• Tango Gamework's next game (or games plural possibly, if they decided to stay multi-team instead of having the HiFi and Ghostwire teams merge for their next game)
• Halo UE5

With so many games coming it is pretty much unavoidable for Xbox's release slate to not be packed to the gills in 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027, since nearly every game listed above will release during one of those 4 years, with the only exceptions that might release after 2027 being TES 6, Project Maverick, Arkane Austin's next game, Tango's next game, Blizzard's survival game, and Halo UE5.