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Phil said he's not trying to oversell the showcase but he's very enthusiastic about the showcase. 

Going to announce some things people haven't seen, updates to some things on Parris list (Avowed, Perfect Dark, Everwild, Fable, State of Decay 3, Contraband).

He's excited about the next quarters, his focus has always been on how to get a big game out every quarter (at quality) that things are lining up FINALLY after the slowdown of COVID (he's tired of talking about that), he can now see that they have games coming every quarter that will surprise and delight customers.

1 AAA Per Quarter. It's finally almost here.

He's not trying to build one game to rule them all, they have a very diverse portfolio and he likes that, he doesn't want to mimic any other brands but create their own and they have to do it at quality and on time, have to show gameplay.



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I was halfway through the video and had to pause when I looked at it again I saw this

of course, it's only a split-second thing but those faces... 



Knows people are tired of waiting for next year, says this year started out well.

Age of Empires II has more players right now on Xbox than Hi-Fi Rush but both were played a lot.

Idk if this is a mistake but.

"We've got Starfield coming, we've got Forza coming, we've got Hellblade coming"

He's making it pretty fucking obvious that Hellblade is very soon, Lol.

"I'm seeing very good builds of Avowed"

But he admits that "Until you can see it then none of my words should matter"



Sad no one asked him about the skipping of games :/
Looking at twatter comments, looks like people aren't happy. Guess it makes a little sense, need to see actions now.



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*Puts my tinfoil hat on*

He mentioned in this order.

Starfield coming.
Forza coming.
Hellblade coming.

Then he mentioned seeing builds of Avowed.

Forza is rumoured for October, AFTER Starfield.

Did Phil just list off what is coming by release order? 🤔

Starfield > Forza > Hellblade > Avowed.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 04 May 2023

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SKMBlake said:

@Ryuu96 some comments on your rant:
- The main issue is that we're in the Series' third year, and there is still no killer app. And console sales trends are starting to look like the end of a generation, which isn't supposed to be this early. And it's not like "oh I don't agree, this game is very good" type of thing. The PS5 has God of War as its killer app, the Switch had BOTW, SMO and soon TOTK.
- Everybody gets its "this game isn't good, the company is doomed". Remember 6 months ago with Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, launched in a terrible state, and everybody was like "the Switch is garbabe, Nintendo needs to release a new console right now" (at the end, it was actually fine).
- The "yeah the game started developping before the purchase so don't blame MS" argument is kind of ugh, cause that's not the point, the game still released as an Xbox Game Studios exclusive game at the end. MS bought Double Fine just before the launch of Psychonauts 2 but nobody said "yeah the game started developping before the MS purchase", everybody was like "this game is pure Xbox Studios".

Thanks for answering some points before I could make a reply saves me some time.

Anyway it is all self conflicted damage.

Everytime people bring up delays especially with Starfield,  the defense army comes in and say 'but others do it aswell' ,

In a way they are right yes others also delay games,  Last of us 2 got delayed, God of war R got delayed Zelda TotK got delayed and all of them became or will become GOTY (winners/contenders). So yeah putting yourself into a corner..

I am cautiously optimistic about Starfield but I and others did not forgot about Fallout 4, Not a bad game but certainly not great...






Phil says that things are finally lining up in his goal to get a large title every quarter.

Forza/Starfield will be Q4.

Could Hellblade be Q1 and Avowed Q2?



SKMBlake said:
Ryuu96 said:

It's baffling still how Xbox dropped the ball on remasters, they could have been easy W's and line-up fillers.

I really don't understand why they don't do this. Especially when you see the best games of 2023 are (for now) Resident Evil 4 Remake, Metroid Prime Remastered and Dead Space Remake

MS can barely release games period, why would anyone think they will be pumping out remasters.  



"2022 was a light year, I think you called it, I might have other words for it..."

Phil  

"We lost the most important generation where people started building up their digital libraries"

Phil is incredibly candid in this interview, Jeez. I love it. Only way is up from here, Phil sounds in such a bad mood, Lol.

Interview is brilliant.

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Collections of games coming? He grouping the prior games together? Or is there something else to this. Hopefully it's remasters of older games. 



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