Yeah. I mean a lot of people are planning to take a vacation even to play the game.
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MS doesn’t care if you stop playing a game on their service that you’ve been playing for month(s) to play another game on their service for months.
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That sounds logical and let’s hope this is how it will go down. Should be no reason to delay the game unless the reason simply is that it needs more time in the oven.
I’m sure we’ll find out in June.
Starfield will take all the headlines and exposure the further in the year we go. Its going to be a juggernaut.
Its counter productive to launch a new franchise and world in this time as it will just be overlooked.
Redfall coming next year gives the game the best possible start.
See you in 2022
MS marketing is still learning and developing so still prone to errors. You may well be right about 2022 lol.
Analyzing the trailer again, I thought I’d add my thoughts as to how the game may play.
I think the main gameplay loop is going to be liberating outposts from the cultists in each zone. With each outpost being able to be freed in different ways, using each characters ability set.
Like we see in the trailer, two players will be able to approach from the front, whilst two go on the roofs. One can go invisible etc.
The role the vampire will play is basically to cause havoc to any plans the players create, and I think the only way to take a vampire down is full cooperation.
I think Redfall will essentially be a more refined Borderlands in terms of world layout and will contain a lot of options.
Holy Toledo is this patronizing…
It’s OK, I think Hindle said they work in marketing.
You really think Redfall will have a worse time against Starfield than it will against Avowed, Hellblade 2, Fable etc?
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And with immersive sim elements Arkane is known and loved for that sounds like a good time.
MS has plenty of planned 2023 titles lol, the release date “issues” that it would supposedly face releasing this year would be worse in 2023
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We will see after E3. I personally still not sure if 2023 will hit that 1 AAA per quarter cadence still. Unless Microsoft start to delay games, I don’t see a way for them to achieve that cadence at all as game dev is kinda unpredictable.
The only possible way is to have 2x the cadence - so if one game is delayed, another one can be released etc.
2023 should have Avowed but will it also have Hellblade 2? Contraband was rumored too, even though that’s not XGS.
That list by Jeff Grubb looked very promising, but it’s anyone’s guess how realistic that still is now.
But it all based on the assumption that the games won’t be delayed for one reason or another.
Yep, nothing is certain.
Hopefully this June makes a lot clear.
Would be funny if it is gonna be another “Psychonauts 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Age of Empire, Forza 5, Halo” and then a tumbleweed until august / autumn like this year 
As for now the expectations are “Redfall, Forza, Starfield, Deathloop (probably)” and everything else is the assumption.
I’m not taking it too literally, to me it’s at least 4 AAA a year with reasonable spacing. Could be 2 months, 3 months, or 4 months at times. I don’t really expect them to hold games that are ready to meet criteria like this.
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There’s no chance Project Cobalt or Everwild hit 2023 (as Jeff said, plans change), and perhaps Perfect Dark and State of Decay 3 slip as well given recent upheavals, but I still think Avowed, Hellblade 2, Contraband, Fable, The Coalition’s new IP and Project Midnight are possible.
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I keep forgetting these codenames. What was Midnight again?