Tubbed said:Obviously Xbox is having a 'show' in very early 2023.
And IF games like
Redfall,
Starfield,
Forza Motorsport,
Minecraft Legends,
Ara: History Untold,
GoldenEye 007,
Age of Empires IV (for consoles) are still on track and they won't have any delays, then Microsoft will have to organize some show to present new details, announce release dates. Especially they had last year that 12 months strategy (July 2022 – June 2023). So, at the next E3 showcase we should have completely new announcements for first-party titles.
Also, Playground Games said in November:
We're hard at work on the second expansion of Forza Horizon 5. You can expect to see it in early 2023. We'll have more to share after we enter the new year.
In my opinion, announcement of Expansion 2 should be on that eventual early 2023 showcase.
Tubbed said:The fact there is news about ABK around the same time is merely a coincidence.
Exactly. Jez Corden already said a few weeks ago that he heard that Microsoft could not showing anything at The Game Awards. Last FTC news was just a coincidence.
Tubbed said:Xbox' only fault here is not being transparent and setting expectations.
That's one the biggest problem of Xbox that last for years already and still wasn't solved out.
Tubbed said:And not having any AAA first party games in the past year, but that's beside the point.
Such a shame that Microsoft didn't have deeper partnership with Asobo Studio. I mean, not only for
Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for
A Plague Tale franchise as well (instead of Focus Entertainment). Also, when Google shutted down its first-party division their partnership where free to get. One of those was with Supermassive Games.
The Quarry was taken by 2K, but if Microsoft would take it for XGS – Publishing that would be nice as well.
Then, hypothetically, Microsoft with
Requiem and
The Quarry could have two nice AA games for 2022.
TheObserverOne said:Why would they go there and show stuff that is already announced and there is nothing new to show?
Why not? It's still better to show new gameplays and announce release dates at one showcase than to make those randomly out of nowhere on Xbox Wire. Also, at least one new thing there could be an announcement of
Forza Horizon 5: Expansion 2.