What in the world is going on at Microsoft? How does not a single studio have a complete and polished game ready (other than maybe Hi-Fi Rush)? I remember the excuse for the multi-year drought of new IPs on the Xbox One being that they were gonna come out swinging with the new generation. Now here we are almost 2.5 years after launch and every game is either delayed, unfinished at release, or only exists because of a mid-production acquisition. Hell, if it wasn't for Obsidian and Double Fine things would be even more dire than last gen.
Halo got delayed a year and probably should have been given another. Starfield also got delayed a year... and now this. You'd think Xbox would be telling Zenimax to take their time and make sure Redfall is perfect, but I'm starting to feel like its become the sacrificial lamb to cover for the Starfield delay.
Weren't we hearing about a new Fable like 5+ years ago? Still no trailer? Didn't we get an extended Hellblade 2 trailer like two years? Still no release date? Hasn't MS said they've brought in external teams, like Crystal Dynamics, to help on games... and things are still this bad? I know the pandemic slowed things down for a while, but why has nearly every other publisher (nvm platform holder) been able to rebound by now except them? Phil seems like a good dude, but it seems pretty obvious 343i wasn't an outlier and upper-management at Xbox needs some serious adjustments.
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