Na de Xbox Games Showcase dook Xbox topman Phil Spencer in diverse media op om te praten over het verleden, en bovenal de toekomst. Een toekomst die hij zonnig in ziet.
Spencer is vooral blij voor de gecombineerde toekomstige line-up van Xbox Game Studios en Bethesda. Hij blikt met een positief gevoel terug op namen als Towerborne, Avowed, Hellblade II en Microsoft Flight Simulator, en dit zijn dan ook nog eens games die we wél hebben gezien. Volgens hem is dit zeker niet alles, zo kunnen we ook nog uit kijken naar nieuwe projecten van id Software en The Coalition, de reboot van Perfect Dark en Everwild van ontwikkelaar Rare.
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"I actually don’t have a lot of fear about 2024. 2022 was hard for us. But I think waiting on certain games… Let’s take South of Midnight. Like you saw, the game got announced during the Xbox Games Showcase. We had that game ready to announce last year. But we said, let’s keep working on the game. Let’s keep working on the announcement. It’s OK to hold the announce. Or, let’s take Clockwork Revolution]. When I was here at E3 last year, I was at inXile playing that game. Not looking at the announcement video, but actually playing that game. And I come back this year down at inXile, playing it again with that team, going through the latest builds. So it gives me confidence because we’re staging the announce of the game closer to release. We’ve got hands on the game.
I think now we’re in a position to really pay that off. And not just for the next 12 months. When I look forward… there are so many things. We haven’t talked about what’s coming from id Software. We haven’t talked about what’s coming from The Coalition. When are we going to see Perfect Dark again? And when are we gonna see Everwild again? There are so many things that we still are working on that we haven’t shown. I mean, I don’t like to be confident, but I like to be humbly confident. I feel good about where that portfolio is. I think we’re set up very, very well."
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