Insider: ‘Reboots,’ ‘gorgeous worlds,’ and ‘big sci-fi’ headed to Xbox
Microsoft’s Xbox has enjoyed the power advantage over PlayStation for quite some time now, but in the world of gaming, that alone simply isn’t enough.
Microsoft has been playing catch up to Sony’s increasingly potent stable of high-quality AAA games, with titles like God of War, Spider-man, The Last of Us, and many others achieving widespread critical acclaim. Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios have been on the back foot, to some degree, with only a handful of titles like Ori and Forza Horizon achieving unanimous praise.
We’ve written previously about how this needs to change for Xbox’s long-term future, and noted that Xbox Game Studios is well-positioned to improve the situation. Microsoft is investing more in first-party content than ever before, and we’re beginning to see the fruits of those efforts in the teaser trailer for Hellblade II, which looks phenomenal.
Noteworthy insider and all-round lovely chap @Shinobi602 recently offered some small teases about what Xbox Game Studios fans can expect in the future from the teams at Microsoft.
Either way, we could be waiting a while for any of these titles to materialize in full, perhaps even longer given the way most game developers are currently working from home, impacting productivity pipelines across the entire industry.
E3 2020 may be canceled, but Microsoft is planning a digital event to showcase some of its upcoming content, so hopefully, we’ll see some of these rumors coalesce into reality sooner, rather than later.
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