Shh. You’re making Xbox look good.
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Most people hear don’t play PC games and have never experience AOE before. They seem to forget that it is a 1st party IP own by Microsoft.
Like most people before did not even know that Flight Sim is also a 1st party IP own by Microsoft, before it came to Xbox console.
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Well…Microsoft has a big day one Game Pass game for Jan/Feb/March. Early April will be Ghostwire Tokyo. May will be Redfall. June could be Diablo IV as I do believe this ends up on Game Pass as Microsoft does have the marketing deal for it. That leaves the second half. Combined with perhaps a great E3 showcase. No one is going to complain as long as the games are great.
When was the last time we got something as big as Diablo, Day One on Game Pass? Feel like the Judgement is being clouded by the ABK acquisition.
Monster Hunter Rise will probably be the closest to Diablo IV as MHR is going to be massive. While the ABK acquisition has something to do with it, if you’re ABK, why wouldn’t you take the deal for Diablo IV? The majority of players will be on PC so why not accept a Game Pass deal day one? Especially when by then, they’ll know for sure if Microsoft is about to own them. It’s not like the money will be going to be ABK anyway. It would be going to Microsoft. lol
In general, here’s an experiment - January has AOE 2 but other than that, do you agree that it’s safe to say that no other Microsoft first party game is releasing in January/February? If so, well that brings us to March and I can’t see Microsoft having a showcase in February and saying Starfield or Forza is March. Just don’t see that happening at all. So knock out March. April will be Ghostwire Tokyo port which again brings us to May.
My belief is that if we were getting the big three before May, Microsoft would have announced them at The Game Awards due to the massive audience it gets. I can’t see Microsoft having the showcase in February and being like, “here you go”. lol
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MHR is a port of a 2 year old Switch game. It’s big, but it’s not Diablo.
Microsoft would not be willing to pay the price of getting Diablo Day One, and would have been expected the deal to close by then instead. If it doesn’t, I wouldn’t expect Diablo. If Microsoft had a deal for Diablo… it would have been announced. Not to mention, we already know that ABK does not play with subscription services. That much has come out of their own mouths.
Minecraft is my likely pick for March.
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Sup kids, What going on.
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Port of 2 year old game huh? Tell that to Persona 5.
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Persona 5 ain’t Diablo Day One
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Alright. With most every game, release dates are shared 3-4+ months in Advance for reasons like warhouse shipment and store storage iirc. So games launching within that time frame either gets shared or leaked. Redfall is in the end of that time frame and got leaked right now. So i don’t think anything is coming within now and april except smaller games. It seems theirs a showcase in late January/February. And they don’t wanna share delays until then.
Yeah, MHR is a two year old Switch port that will be on four more consoles come January 20th with a combined user install base of over 200m. Game is going to be massive. I do believe that it will be bigger than Diablo IV on consoles because majority of Diablo fans will be playing it on PC. Both will be available on the same amount of consoles so it will be an interesting battle.
I disagree with it being announced already if Diablo IV was on Game Pass day one. They would wait until they’re two weeks out in order to maximize pre-order numbers and of course, to see if the acquisition goes through before then.
ABK doesn’t play with subscriptions if they somehow stay independent. I don’t believe they’ll be independent for much longer and I do believe that Diablo IV ends up on Game Pass day one but we’ll see.
Minecraft Legends in March? I would be very surprised. My money is on June/July/August.
Well I agree with what @pg2g said a couple of posts above. I dont think people are anxious about if X game will come in x month per se. They just want to know the exact date when they are coming. Not me though. I have couple of dozens of games to clear first from my backlog !
I agree with this but I don’t think the Fall games get an actual release date until E3.
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With that said i think it goes smaller games Jan -May then
May-Redfall
July-Starfield
August-Stalker 2
September-Forza
October-Hb2
November-Coalition Smaller project
2024
March-Avowed
May-Everwild
July- Contraband
September-Fable
November-Project Midnight
2025
Feb-Project colbalt
April-Perfect dark
June- Indiana jones
Aug-Project 
October- OW2
November-Gears 6
This is probably best case scenario as of this moment. For all of the KNOWN major 1st party ip
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Well thats why it being bought to the Xbox should be discussed. Cleary its a first party game that is coming very soon to the Xbox. Heck in less than a month even.
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Other than forza I agree other than a window maybe
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-Early year to show updates of the games announced at E3 (first half of the year) with even more new additions to gamepass coming in the first 6 month of the year.
-E3 for games coming in the second half and a look into what’s coming the next 12 months.
-Throught the year I would do small showcases or blogposts about updates of their GAAS. Seriously I think we all can agree that Flight Simulator, Grounded, Sea of Thieves, Fallout 76, TES online all having a presence in the main showcase just ruins the phase of the show and soon HI will join and next what? Forza Motorsport, Contraband? every other GAAS?
At least thats what I would prefer instead of only one big show per year (if they do more and are of high quality even better!)
I don’t see Microsoft putting release dates on their games unless they’re 100% certain they will hit it. Maybe a window like Fall for example but even then, I believe that Microsoft would be better off not putting a date or window until they’re 100% certain.
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I can agree with this. Redfall, the day one Game Pass games, perhaps a release date for Flintlock and Darktide.
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I somewhat agree. I think the 12 month format is way too limiting, restrictive and puts an artificial time frame on the studios that they may not be able to hit. For Indies and AA titles, sure okay as they’re more likely to hit their dates but massive AAA titles, nah. Personally, I would have an 18 month format instead if I was doing this and also have an opening and ending that showcases games that are beyond the 18 month window.
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They should have an Xbox Direct Mini every quarter and individual game Direct shows because they work for Sony and Nintendo. I don’t care if it’s copying. It works and gives the fan base more showcases instead of just waiting for E3. They can have updates to the live service games while also showing new trailers for upcoming games like Minecraft Legends or Ara. And then for individual games. Give me a 20 or so minute Redfall deep dive that truly showcases what the game is, what you’ll be doing and what the gameplay/combat loop is.
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Agreed. E3 is the main event. Smaller showcases every quarter and individual game showcases would be excellent.
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Yeah, hopefully it open their eyes. AOE is one of the very best RTS ever made. For console only players, to finally experience it.
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I think
June-E3 2hr
Sep-XO type event 90 mins
December-Game Awards
Feb-X/O type event 90 mins
Then having individual state of play types for game releases like what sony did for horizon and GOT As well as going to gamescon, QuakeCon,pax east etc etc with smaller things.
This is so basic to do it’s honestly shocking how Xbox doesn’t do it.
BUT, As for what to show in this showcase i don’t a 18-month format is smart. They just need to show whats ready to show. I make 3 categories, Gameplay, Trailers with Story Trailers/gameplay snipbits? and cgi reveals. Sonys 2016 e3 should be a template IMO. 60% gameplay, 30% Snipbits and 10% CGI reveals. You need 2-3 big 3rd party as well. Sont in 2016 had RE7, COD,FF15.
Also, games need to have a 24-36 month reveal to release deadline depending on size. Show that should be the format for showing things at shows. Should go like this Ex:
2020 E3-Fable Cgi reveal
2021 E3- Fable Story Trailer/gameplay snipbits
2022 E3- Fable Gameplay trailer and release for either around e3 time, the fall or before 2023 E3 showcase the following year.
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