That looks pretty likely to me.
Edit. Instead of Avowed or Hellblade, put Wolfenstein in there if the game is real.
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Exactly Disney took back the Netflix Marvel tv shows and put them on Disney +
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Having a bunch of mismanaged commercial flops like Jupiters Legacy and Cowboy Beebop doesnât help either.
So true! Paying so much money for comedy specials was not smart!
I mean, ATLUS gotta use the dev kits for something, right? I doubt itâll be for just Soul Hackers 2.
Youâre Welcome.
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Well Iâve dropped this theory before, but itâs Game Pass.
Think of the millions of dollars it takes to get marketing deals or to âbuy exclusivesâ and simply apply that budget to Game Pass instead. What you get is a selling tool that replaces âPlay the hot new game only on Xboxâ with âPlay the hot new game for free* on Xboxâ you get just as much positive media buzz from the latter IMO. Essentially Game Pass doesnât even need to be profitable itself if it is thought of as marketing/advertising. The money also works for the developers. Instead having to definitely lose purchases from PS with an Xbox exclusive deal, they only theoretically lose purchases from Xbox while on Game Pass and still get to sell on PS. The fact that they get more exposure on GP actually helps them sell on other platforms too. This also allows Xbox to create a wide range of deals to developers to fit whatever profit/budgets they may have.
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Who says they didnât try? Maybe Sony outbid them. Or maybe Xbox wanted day one Game Pass and they said no. In the case of Hogwarts, I wouldnât be surprised if Xbox just doesnât want to touch them with a ten foot pole, for obvious reasons.
Remember that Xbox almost always gets marketing for EA titles. It just so happens that the biggest EA title in the next 12 months (Star Wars Jedi: Survivor) is early 2023, not late 2022. Thereâs also Need for Speed and Dead Space, although I donât think the latter has any sort of marketing deal from what weâve seen so far.
I think Xbox should go for the realistic titles this year like Saints Row, The Callisto Protocol, Marvelâs Midnight Suns, Skull & Bones (if thatâs this year, probably early next year) and Gotham Knights if that doesnât have Sony marketing.
They arenât huge games, but remember that theyâve also got A Plague Tale: Requiem likely within the next month or so, Warhammer 40k: Darktide in September, Scorn in October, STALKER 2 hopefully in December and Atomic Heart at some point this year. Thatâs not nothing.
Thereâs nothing to leak, really. And i dont mean that in a disingenuous way more a case of Xbox has already revealed so many games and we know of so many of these projects (thanks Jez and Grubb) that i think most of us could come up with the lineup without getting too much wrong, barring hopefully one or two surprises, maybe.
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I know both are trying to hit December but I donât see it happening and in all honesty, they should push their games into 2023 at this point instead of trying to rush them out.
I think one of them will make it out. Which one is kind of a coin flip.
Both were aiming for December and lost at least three months of development time so I would be shocked if they can somehow make up those three months.
Well, STALKER was originally aiming for April, whereas Atomic Heart was always targeting the end of the year. In theory, STALKER is mostly done and they were just polishing it for the December release (obviously Iâm just assuming).
Hopefully weâll hear about one or both of them in a couple of weeks.
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Perhaps but to get delayed 8 months just for polishing. I donât really believe that. Plus with a packed Fall, I think both games would be better off getting pushed into 2023.
Itâs not that packed anymore! 
Hahaha. True.
Just over 2 weeks until the Wolf 3 dream lives or dies
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