Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase announced for Sunday June 12 at 10 a.m. PT + Xbox Games Showcase Extended on June 14th at 10am PT (Spoiler Free)

[jfsolo]

You’ll never convince me that some of the the Xbox influencers aren’t just trolling with a lot of the predictions they make.

[Failwood]

My stance is who knows when Fable releases lol. I can definitely see Fable releasing in late 2024 or early 2025, but it’s hard to predict since there is little information to base it upon. All we really have is Grubb stating it’s internally stated to release in 2024.

They’re still hiring like mad, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they had a long prototyping and pre-production phase to build the core team and tools necessary to enter full production, and have only been in full production since 2021 or something making a 2024, early 2025 release likely. This is all just empty speculation though, because again, there is little information to base it on.

[peter42O]

@AllianceOfficer

I’m expecting the show to be much more like the 2019 showcase, but more gameplay and less cinematic. I expect this will be followed by another showcase with more in depth info and looks.

I can agree with this. 2019 and 2018 were great and better than 2021 and 2020 in my opinion. Definitely want more gameplay trailers, overview trailer for Forza Motorsport (10 min like FH 5 last year), blowout for Starfield and then 3-5 minutes for the rest. Then deep dives for those 3-5 minute games the following day on the extended showcase.

@Cpt_Haddock

Wow im seeing some huge expectations, 8 new 1st/2nd party game announcements, 2 conferences because too much content, almost every 1st party developer showing up… I can see disappoinments incoming after the showcase.

I expect more and better gameplay than last year’s E3 (FH5 and Stalker 2 were top tier, Halo was good but failed to show the campaign), with Starfield, Forza, Redfall and 1-2 more.

Also 3-5 announcements with Coalition, Compulsion, Obsidian showing up almost for sure, and either one of Bethesda’s studios or XGP showing up too.

About the surprise, or the “one more thing” moment at the end i’ll go 95% for the new’s Coalition game.

And of course more content for Grounded, Sea of Thieves, Halo, Forza Horizon and maybe Flight Simulator or Age of Empires.

All that in 90 minutes is a quite safe bet, not the craziest show ever but a very very solid one.

Definitely the most important thing on this conference for me will be how the gameplay looks and which dates we get. Forza Motorsport has to be the next-gen racing beast many of us expect, and Starfield has to be the new Cyberpunk 2077 pre-release everybody talks about for the next months.

Rand said “almost” every studio submitted something. A few submitted multiple things which makes sense like Obsidian. Avowed/Grounded 1.0/Sawyer’s game is just one example. I’m not expecting Coalition, InXile or Compulsion. I think the game reveals would be the smaller AA titles or third party exclusives like IO Interactive’s game as an example.

Definitely expecting much more gameplay than the last two years and the showcase being more like 2018/2019 like AllianceOfficer mentioned above.

I don’t see “one more thing” happening this year if Starfield closes out the showcase which in all honesty, it should. Save the “one more thing” for Gamescom.

[rtansey]

@Cpt_Haddock

Recently Parris, the guy who presented the Xbox extended show in last E3, said that he expeced Fable for 2026, also there were some rumours of the development going slow due to the inexperience of the team with the RPG genre, i definitely wouldn’t expect this E3, and 50/50 for 2023’s one.

Fable, Perfect Dark, State of Decay 3 or inXile’s next project, at least 2 of these won’t make it to 2024 i’d say.

He was just giving his own predictions like anyone else here. Not that he’s privvy to development status.

[Cayde4Ever (Cayde)]

@HaktanT

…Job listing on Playground Games website indicates that Fable is at early stage, any chance we’ll see it at Showcase? I believe they’ve been working on it since 2018, right?

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When working on a project this big, there are multiple senior staff positions in the same area. Doesn’t mean they don’t have senior engineers, they’re just looking to add another

[Proven]

Jason Ronald

[BRiT]

@Cayde4Ever

When working on a project this big, there are multiple senior staff positions in the same area. Doesn’t mean they don’t have senior engineers, they’re just looking to add another

Indeed. Even in the smaller sized companies I worked at, a development team around 10 or less had at least 4 Senior Engineers along with long-standing job postings for Senior Engineer and Junior Engineer.

[Biggzy (Hassan)]

@Proven

The reaction of a lot of people here lol

[Shakez]

@Proven

I wonder what kind of demos they’re, must be tech related actually, hoping for some Super Res stuff…

[Eamon696 (Eamon)]

@Jimmy_1984

I don’t think It will be a 90 minutes show. suppose almost two hours assuming as true what Rand said about the 23 studios availbale to show something. Of course Phil can’t show all of them but some studios could really have more projects to show: Obsidian with Avowed, grounded; Playground with Forza8 and maybe Fable.

I am not sure on a two hour show. I really think the 90ish minute window is a perfect length for a virtual showcase, and if you need more time, go with another Extended Showcase in the days after. When you start getting into 2+ hours, I really think the potential for pacing issues greatly increase

[Failwood]

@Eamon696

I am not sure on a two hour show. I really think the 90ish minute window is a perfect length for a virtual showcase, and if you need more time, go with another Extended Showcase in the days after. When you start getting into 2+ hours, I really think the potential for pacing issues greatly increase

Yeah, it can be longer than 90 minutes, but people start mentally checking out after a while.

[GalacticSP]

Killer Instinct 4 announcement pls

Just to let people know it’s not dead.

[Staffy]

Idle Sloth now also saying 90 minutes is confirmed, but SGF twitter has it listed for two hours. Unclear if that includes any kind of preshow. Nothing has been confirmed though.

[peter42O]

Still hoping for two hours and no pre-show which is usually shit anyway. If Starfield is 30 minutes which im fully expecting it to be, it’s more like a 90 minute showcase anyway. Don’t see pacing being an issue since it’s a digital event. Only way this happens is if they have talking segments that go too long or too many in a row.

Two hour showcase baby!!! Let’s go!!!

[TheBrightestSun]

I am fine with 90 minutes if there will be extended showcases.

@peter42O

If Starfield is 30 minutes which im fully expecting it to be, it’s more like a 90 minute showcase anyway. Don’t see pacing being an issue since it’s a digital event. Only way this happens is if they have talking segments that go too long or too many in a row.

Two hours is too long for a normal consumer. And there won’t be 30 minutes of Starfield. Without crowd there is no point for Todd to tell stories or jokes. And for all the system explanation - it is not enough either. I expext 10-15 minutes with some deep dive on a later date.

Though of course 10 minutes is not enough - Forza Horizon had 10 and basically showed nothing.

[PCPrincipal]

@Staffy

Idle Sloth now also saying 90 minutes is confirmed, but SGF twitter has it listed for two hours. Unclear if that includes any kind of preshow. Nothing has been confirmed though.

SGF?

[Shakez]

@TheBrightestSun

I am fine with 90 minutes if there will be extended showcases.

This.

Going forward they should be able to do deepdives for games.

[TheBrightestSun]

@PCPrincipal

SGF?

Summer Game Fest

[Biggzy (Hassan)]

@PCPrincipal

SGF?

Summer Game Fest.

[TheBrightestSun]

@Shakez

Going forward they should be able to do deepdives for games.

Yeah, if the rumored extended showcases for Xbox and Bethesda are true then it will fine to have deep dives there. Or at least make State of Play style video similar to what GT7 had. It was really neat (though felt even then slightly long). Of course they can do deep dive on Quake Con too if necessary.