They will very likely sunset it in a few years. Plus the gaming ‘media’ does not understand the distinction of XLG versus XL while posting videos.
Strangely for a 20 year old console maker, there are still several in the media who don’t know the distinction.
Honesty the term “live” feels very outdate. I presume the network will be just called Xbox. Like “connect to Xbox” etc.
Gaming media is horrible in general so no surprise. But yeah, it makes sense if XLG is on it’s way out.
A side rant – the popular opinion makers have taken the mantle of the gaming media - all the kinda funny, giantbomb, ign, gamespot, etc. are definitely not journos but they are currently squatting on the title of the “gaming media”.
This is proving detrimental to actual gaming media and very credible journos like Jeff Grubb, Mike Minotti, Dean Takahashi, Jez and the Windows Central folks, the people at gamesindustry.biz etc.
I have always followed the Windows/MS journos – Mary Jo Foley, Paul Thurrott, Tom Warren, Brad Sams, Dan Rubino and the Windows Central folks. Easy to see the massive gulf in class with the likes of KF/IGN/Gamespot/giantbomb/kotaku/eurogamer and all these so called popular media sites.
Mary Jo actually knows the codenames for the internal products that MS makes, and she has amazing sources. MS is slightly scared of her, and sometimes admit that too.
Yeah, for real! A update, anything. Can’t be long now…right?
Also, wasn’t there something about the backers of this game and credits for the game? I don’t know the exact details anymore, but it seemed to point to Game being close to finished.
Shadowdrop on “E3” ? Would be nice.
They had completed the game in Dec according to the update that Tim gave during the Christmas holidays. Polishing stage was expected to start.
Hmmm, then hopefully it won’t be too long. It would be the perfect April or May game, June at latest. But Klobrille has no info on it, that’s clear.
They should just do the show and say “releasing tomorrow”. That would be cool.
This will be the last multiplat game too from XGS if I’m not mistaken, kinda nice moment. Finally all of the contractual bs (Bethesda excluded) over with.
Summer show or indie show? It’s not a indie game, but that show is close. Summer show is, June, July? Jeez.
Iv been watching youtube a lot recently and Iv seen more advertisment saying xbox and bethesda than anything xbox has ever advertised.
*A friendly PSA from your friendly press sneak fuck: if you see headlines like “Halo Infinite delayed out of 2021???” or “Jason Schreier says BOTW2 coming this fall?!?!?!” or really anything involving game release dates that are more than a month or two away, ignore them.
During the pandemic, it’s safe to assume no release date is solid until the game is actually downloading on your console. (OK, if we’re a week out and the release date hasn’t changed, you can probably count on it.) A bunch of people here and on other forums apparently freaked out over me saying over the weekend that I wasn’t sure that Halo Infinite and Starfield would come this fall, which suggests that a lot of those folks think that the landscape is a lot more stable than it actually is. Nobody knows anything. Even in the best of times, game developers’ timelines are entirely based on educated guesses. During Covid, throw the “educated” part out the window. Madden 22 and Call of Duty Sledgehammer might brute-force their way into coming out on time, but as we’ve already seen with several big titles over the past few months (Hogwarts Legacy, Gotham Knights etc), most big games are going to be delayed this year if they haven’t already been. Just keep that in mind as we get through the year, and enjoy catching up on your backlog. It’s always a good time to replay Hollow Knight…*
Per Jason Schreier
Lots of games look good on Switch.
Like, every Nintendo game looks good.
Interesting!
In handheld mode, sure.
lmao i’m convinced release date will be month later after their big show