Xbox Game Studios |OT7| Killer News Here!?

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Shakez

This is a holiday 2023 game for sure.

Avowed will open the year and Fable 4 will close it.

Hindle not gonna like this one either

[Roronoa_Zoro90]

@javycane

Hindle not gonna like this one

It’s still a 2026 game…at best. XD

[DARK-PARADISE]

@Doncabesa

I’d imagine it is the “Playground games are staffing up to make an RPG, Xbox sees the pitch and suggest Fable as the IP they marry to it, the following year Xbox finishes the acquisition of Playground, 2020 they announce the game publically after spending years staffing up” type of scenario.

I don’t think they sit still for 3 years waiting for job positions to fill. They have to do a lot of the concepts and basics for the game at least, and configuring their engine for what they see for their vision. Later on individual things get added in, edited out, and optimized and reconfigured, etc, as positions fill.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Doncabesa

I’d imagine it is the “Playground games are staffing up to make an RPG, Xbox sees the pitch and suggest Fable as the IP they marry to it, the following year Xbox finishes the acquisition of Playground, 2020 they announce the game publically after spending years staffing up” type of scenario.

Im sure a lot of technical work, designs, concepts and stuff had already been done prior to the 2020 reveal which makes sense to me. 6 year dev cycle of 2017 to 2023.

Of course we could take the Hindle route and say nothing existed but proof of concept until the reveal and the trailer was just a recruiting pitch (which it is too).

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

@DARK-PARADISE

I don’t think they sit still for 3 years waiting for job positions to fill. They have to do a lot of the concepts and basics for the game at least, and configuring their engine for what they see for their vision. Later on individual things get added in, edited out, and optimized and reconfigured, etc, as positions fill.

@javycane

Im sure a lot of technical work, designs, concepts and stuff had already been done prior to the 2020 reveal which makes sense to me. 6 year dev cycle of 2017 to 2023.

Of course we could take the Hindle route and say nothing existed but proof of concept until the reveal and the trailer was just a recruiting pitch (which it is too).

Yeah I wasn’t saying they only hired people to sit in an office and not work for years.

[Shakez]

@javycane

Hindle not gonna like this one either

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Doncabesa

Yeah I wasn’t saying they only hired people to sit in an office and not work for years.

So not the Hindle route

[DARK-PARADISE]

@javycane

Of course we could take the Hindle route and say nothing existed but proof of concept until the reveal and the trailer was just a recruiting pitch (which it is too

This could be too if not for the fact that it’s Playground. These guys were only founded in 2010, and by 2012 they already made a game that had to be pitched to Turn10 first and then MS, and it turned out to be a banger.

[Shakez]

@DARK-PARADISE

This could be too if not for the fact that it’s Playground. These guys were only founded in 2010, and by 2012 they already made a game that had to be pitched to Turn10 first and then MS, and it turned out to be a banger.

Playground is fine, they have enough people and support to deliver any game.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

So fable 2023 and 2024 at worst … kinda like what we been saying here for months.

So Yeah I think Avowed and Fable could possibly 1-2 punch 2023.

[Staffy]

Imagine the possibility of seeing a actual reveal of Fable next year, along with Avowed. I’ve given up on seeing Avowed this year, better to just assume it will be a E3 thing.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Staffy

I’ve given up on seeing Avowed this year, better to just assume it will be a E3 thing.

Hope we never get another dev saying SOON again right after an E3 showing and then dont show anything for a year.

[Stefrah]

@AllianceOfficer

Seems like it could easily be a 2023 game, probably not going to be all the way out to 2024 or beyond like some are thinking.

I’m thinking 2024. It’s a whole new team, most of time some since it launched staffing up, first game together and first game in this rebooted series – all systems and engine work from the ground up and nothing to build off. And it’s a flagship franchise, they can’t mis step.

Given XBGS has a tonne of things that can launch in 2023, even if it was possible for them to push Fable out by then giving them another year to polish till it gleams wouldn’t be a bad idea.

[Shakez]

@javycane

Hope we never get another dev saying SOON again right after an E3 showing and then dont show anything for a year.

Next year they’ll share the E3 show with some and won’t show anything at it.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Stefrah

I’m thinking 2024. It’s a whole new team, most of time some since it launched staffing up, first game together and first game in this rebooted series – all systems and engine work from the ground up and nothing to build off. And it’s a flagship franchise, they can’t mis step.

I trust Playground to deliver.

Also I think Fable WAS a flagship not anymore. Lets see if that changes with the new game.

[Roronoa_Zoro90]

@javycane

Hope we never get another dev saying SOON again right after an E3 showing and then dont show anything for a year.

I have still hope for Avowed at Anniversary Event/TGA, buy yeah, “soon” has become my most hated word in gaming because it really means shit and devs/publishers make a wrong use of it.

[AllianceOfficer]

@Stefrah

I’m thinking 2024. It’s a whole new team, most of time some since it launched staffing up, first game together and first game in this rebooted series – all systems and engine work from the ground up and nothing to build off. And it’s a flagship franchise, they can’t mis step.

Given XBGS has a tonne of things that can launch in 2023, even if it was possible for them to push Fable out by then giving them another year to polish till it gleams wouldn’t be a bad idea.

The engine work is not handled by the Fable team, the engine work is primarily handled by the Turn 10 team that have worked to adjust the engine to be used by different genres.

[Shakez]

@AllianceOfficer

The engine work is not handled by the Fable team, the engine work is primarily handled by the Turn 10 team that have worked to adjust the engine to be used by different genres.

I wonder how big of a jump this new engine will deliver. Wonder if it’ll include RDNA2 features too, beyond VRS.

[Mesiac]

Crazy to think that while one or more may slip to 2024, there’s an outside chance that Avowed, Fable, and Perfect Dark all release in 2023. That’s not even counting other possibilities like Hellblade 2, The Coalitions next game etc. Xbox is stacked!

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Mesiac

Crazy to think that while one or more may slip to 2024, there’s an outside chance that Avowed, Fable, and Perfect Dark all release in 2023. That’s not even counting other possibilities like Hellblade 2, The Coalitions next game etc. Xbox is stacked!

Cant release all those games in a year