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Betteridge’s Law dictates the answer is obviously no. :sweat_smile:

But for me, it was never about Xbox needing one of these Superhero games, but something that would certainly help the portfolio in a great way, while bringing in large swathes of casual audiences based on a super recognizable popular culture anchor. It’s also obviously not about “copying Sony” for me cuz I’d similarly want Sony to expand their palette and offering too, like Xbox has. Wouldn’t want all of this discourse to get poisoned by the extremes of “Xbox is doomed if they don’t pursue these licensed IP”, “where is Xbox’s answer to Wolverine?!1!” or any of that alarmist BS. It’s simply something that adds great value to the portfolio in the same way E-rated games and JRPGs shall, much to Phil’s own admission. If I can think of one studio under XGS that has expressed great interest in licensed IP, it’s InXile who pursued Baldur’s Gate 3 but lost that to Larian, but Brian Fargo has still expressed on twitter how much he loves Star Wars and IIRC would love to make a game in that universe. That’s something that would be great to see in the future if the right pitch is made. All this while, “Star Wars RPG” has meant “KOTOR”, but there’s so much potential outside that IP but still within the genre, InXile would nail that I think.

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