Umbasaborne
Banned
I think games like hifi rush are a great start, but the wait for games like perfect dark, avowed, fable, state of decay, and forza motorsport is getting to be a little ridiculous when you consider they were announced 3 years ago. I dont think the pandemic is a valid excuse because sony and nintendo have been able to release first party games these past 3 years without issue, even if some of them got delayed. So what can microsoft do?
We know that there is a lot of talent in their first party teams. Microsoft should continue to allow them to flex their creative muscles to put out more games like ori, pentiment, and hifi rush. These games may not have the big budget bombast of gears of war, but they dont need it. These games can be produced for much less money and on quicker timelines then their big budget counterparts. Games like this are great for filling out Microsoft's line up while we wait for the big games to comes out, and they should continue making them.
As for the big games, its no secret that triple a games take longer then ever to make and are more expensive to create then they’ve ever been, especially when they get stuck in development hell like halo infinite was and perfect dark is rumored to be.
One way microsft can mitigate peoples expectations is by waiting until these games are much closer to launch before announcing them, and also being realistic about the time frames in which they will release. Touting starfield and forza as “next 12 month games” last year was marketing blunder. It incorrectly set fan expectations and was likely just as frustrating to the dev team as it was for us.
Think about how different the narrative would be if forza were announced for the first time earlier this year at the developer direct with a 2023 window. People would have been very excited. Instead the headline was “forza motorsport delayed”. It should not have been revealed in 2020. It was a mistake to reveal those games as early as they did.
My hope is that microsoft learned a hard lesson from this, and will announced their big games within 6 months to a year of them actually releasing. This year i don't want to see any new big announcements from them, i just want them to give us meaningful updates on what has already been announced, and i want them to give us a realistic time frame about when we can expect them, even if that means not providing a time frame yet.
We know that there is a lot of talent in their first party teams. Microsoft should continue to allow them to flex their creative muscles to put out more games like ori, pentiment, and hifi rush. These games may not have the big budget bombast of gears of war, but they dont need it. These games can be produced for much less money and on quicker timelines then their big budget counterparts. Games like this are great for filling out Microsoft's line up while we wait for the big games to comes out, and they should continue making them.
As for the big games, its no secret that triple a games take longer then ever to make and are more expensive to create then they’ve ever been, especially when they get stuck in development hell like halo infinite was and perfect dark is rumored to be.
One way microsft can mitigate peoples expectations is by waiting until these games are much closer to launch before announcing them, and also being realistic about the time frames in which they will release. Touting starfield and forza as “next 12 month games” last year was marketing blunder. It incorrectly set fan expectations and was likely just as frustrating to the dev team as it was for us.
Think about how different the narrative would be if forza were announced for the first time earlier this year at the developer direct with a 2023 window. People would have been very excited. Instead the headline was “forza motorsport delayed”. It should not have been revealed in 2020. It was a mistake to reveal those games as early as they did.
My hope is that microsoft learned a hard lesson from this, and will announced their big games within 6 months to a year of them actually releasing. This year i don't want to see any new big announcements from them, i just want them to give us meaningful updates on what has already been announced, and i want them to give us a realistic time frame about when we can expect them, even if that means not providing a time frame yet.
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