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Rate the Xbox Partner Preview - March 2026

Rate the Xbox Partner Preview - March 2026

  • A

    Votes: 10 16.7%
  • B

    Votes: 11 18.3%
  • C

    Votes: 15 25.0%
  • D

    Votes: 11 18.3%
  • E

    Votes: 7 11.7%
  • F

    Votes: 6 10.0%

  • Total voters
    60

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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Some pretty good announcements, especially for Game Pass subs.


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There was an Xbox partner preview?
 
Lots of games, new announcements, Play Anywhere, big Game Pass announcements, lots of interesting stuff... and a Goldman demo!!

Solid B for a third-party partner and indie game event.
 
(Pasted from the main thread)

This was actually quite a bit for just a partner preview show.

Solid B. No 'one last thing' but again that's not really a partner preview thing to do.

Games of note:
  • Hunter The Reckoning: Deathwish (reveal)
  • Wuthering Waves (port)
  • The Expanse: Osiris Reborn (gameplay reveal)
  • Grave seasons (more gameplay shown)
  • Serious Sam Shatterverse (new reveal with gameplay)
  • Stranger than Heaven (new gameplay shown)
  • Super Meat Boy 3D (new gameplay shown)
  • Forever Ago (new gameplay shown)
  • Ascend to Zero (more gameplay shown)
  • Dispatch (port)
  • ADS: Alien Deathstorm (reveal with gameplay)
  • Frog Sqwad (more gameplay shown)
  • Bluey's Happy Snaps (reveal with gameplay)
  • Stalker 2: Cost of Hope (reveal with gameplay)
  • Moosa: Dirty Fate (reveal with gameplay)
  • The Eternal Life of Goldman (new gameplay shown)
  • Vaunted (reveal with gameplay)
  • Hades 2 (port)
  • Artificial Detective (reveal with target gameplay)

8 new reveals and mostly gameplay shown.
 
I might get stranger than heaven, expanse, and eternal life of goldman. Didn't see much else. Maybe some of those 2027 games, but with no gameplay it doesn't move the needle for me yet.
 
B.

It was cool. Lots of gamepass games.


The best things for me: Wuwa on Xbox with gamepass benefits is nice, Stranger than Heaven seems awesome, Hades 2 on gamepass is great and the Artificial Detective game might be cool.


However, that Korean game disappointed me a lot, at the start of the trailer I thought that it was going to be a zombie game inspired by the netflix series Kingdom, but then ended up looking like a uninspired action game.
 
These partner directs, no matter from whom, need to fucking die. Big third-parties like Sega either need to do their own marketing or appear in the "main" directs. And indies benefit more from giving them special advertisement on the storefronts of the respective platform holders, imho.

That being said, nice to see some gameplay of Stranger Than Heaven and The Expanse: Mass Effect
 
Much better than I was expecting.

Too many games, a lot on gamepass.

Its firing on all cylinders TBH (After the ludicrous price hike).

Happy to be a subscriber.
 
Even though the content was C, Xbox has the best format. No stupid nasal voice like Nintendo. Everything felt well paced. Now they just need the games to be at the show.
 
D, a bunch of stuff we already knew was coming, and a couple of things that made me go "neat", but nothing that was particularly exciting to me honestly.
 
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