It is disappointing that players will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on Starfield. Or perhaps they prefer to play on PC, so maybe a PC Game Pass subscription will do as a stocking stuffer. You can bet that car enthusiasts will notice Forza Motorsport and will ask for an Xbox Series X|S console. Since racers have a general mass appeal that can penetrate the mainstream, Q4 is a perfect time to hype up the seminal racer sim right before the holiday period. Now this leaves Q4 with an opening, that will likely be claimed by Forza Motorsport. Starfield September Release Means Forza Motorsport Will Likely Land in Q4 We don't have a big game this quarter we want to get to the point of regular releases people can get excited about. "We want to get to this point where there's a steady flow of great (first-party) games coming the customer can predict. Second, it shows that Xbox is strategically spacing out release dates to entice players to keep their Game Pass subscriptions active. This marks the beginning of a quarterly AAA release cadence.ĭiablo 4 is the next in the pipeline in June and Starfield after that in September. During Q1 2023, Xbox shadow-dropped the critically acclaimed Hi-Fi Rush onto Game Pass and Steam. First, it meets the quarterly AAA release cadence Xbox Head Phil Spencer mentioned last year. Starfield’s September 6 release date achieves two objectives at once. Instead, Xbox sought to align Starfield’s release date with another promise it made… Aligning Starfield with the Quarterly AAA Release Cadence So releasing two AAA games in the same month is not strategically sound. Since it’s a new IP, marketing heads at Bethesda and Xbox wanted Starfield to have its own spotlight and marketing campaign. Additionally, Xbox probably did not want to crowd out Diablo 4‘s limelight in June by releasing Starfield in the same month. This displays confidence that the ABK deal going through. That’s right Xbox already considers Diablo 4 a first-party title. Diablo 4 is Already Considered First Party But it does suggest that Starfield didn’t want to crowd out another first-party game in June, which is…. However, with the September 6 release date, that means they missed their mark. Initially, Xbox promised that Starfield was supposed to launch before the end of June 2023. It’s been over a year now and the gaming media got the full brunt of a never-ending corporate legal drama on a scale never witnessed before. Microsoft is Confident that the Activision Acquisition is Going to be Approvedĭuring our state of Xbox 2023, we predicted that Microsoft will successfully acquire Activision this year. Here are 4 things we learned from the Starfield release date announcement. However, the game’s release date announcement is more telling on several fronts. Of course, this means that Starfield was once again delayed. But it does mean that the game did miss that 12-month window from last year’s Xbox and Bethesda Showcase. Typically this kind of leak would be more specific, but if even Microsoft and Bethesda haven’t yet made up their minds? Well, then it’s like trying to grab a cloud of smoke.We finally got an official release date for Starfield. With all of that, the Starfield release date still seems to be completely up in the air, and even Redfall’s is far from set in stone. Skull and Bones, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Resident Evil 4 are all out in March, while there’s much more breathing room in April and May, which are high-pointed by Dead Island 2 in the former and Suicide Squad in the latter. It’s also worthwhile trying to avoid clashing with major third party titles. As with Deathloop, we can expect it to drop onto Xbox Series X|S and Xbox Game Pass pretty much on that day. The spooky first person adventure launched on 25th March 2022 for PS5 with a one year exclusivity deal in place from before Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media. The one date that we can pin down on the Xbox release calendar is that of Tango Gameworks’ Ghostwire: Tokyo. In addition to Redfall and Starfield, there’s also Minecraft Legends and Forza Motorsport, and while they will have different demographics, it doesn’t make much sense to cluster games too closely together. Starfield was previously expected for release on 11th November 2022, but was delayed to 2023.Ī lot of this seems like common sense when considering that Microsoft will want to try and spread out the launch of their first party games, many of which are due out in the first half of this year.
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