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Microsoft had successfully found a new way to sell Xboxes that flipped our understanding of a traditional console cycle.
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The company began loading Xbox Game Pass up with new releases, solidifying it as the “best deal in gaming.” Third-party games became the Xbox’s secret weapon as titles like Outriders and even Sony’s MLB The Show 21 were available on Game Pass at launch.ĭespite my initial bewilderment with Xbox’s lack of exclusives, I quickly found myself recommending the Series X to my friends more frequently than the PS5 - though with the caveat that they’d need to subscribe to Game Pass or it wasn’t worth it. That became much less of a problem as Microsoft’s ultimate plan came into focus. In our initial review of the Xbox Series X, we called it “ a sports car with no gas.” Microsoft had created a powerhouse device, but there was simply nothing to test its potential.
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Halo Infinite was famously supposed to be a launch title for the new wave of Xboxes, but the game was delayed a full year just months before release day.
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While PS5 owners would get Demon’s Souls, S pider-Man: Miles Morales, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, and more on day one, those who picked up an Xbox Series console just got a next-gen upgrade for Gears Tactics and a multiplayer-enabled rerelease of Tetris Effect. When the devices launched in November 2020, there was no big console-moving exclusive to entice players. The Xbox Series X/S’ short life cycle has never really mirrored that of a traditional console. It’ll definitively prove if Game Pass is a strong enough value on its own that Microsoft no longer needs to lean on pricey first-party games to sell consoles. While we’re likely to get some new reveals at Microsoft’s big not-E3 showcase in a month, Xbox could go the entire year without launching a single big-budget exclusive.Īs a result, 2022 is now the ultimate test of Microsoft’s grand Xbox experiment. Microsoft’s carefully laid plans dissolved this morning as Bethesda delayed both Starfield and its other big 2022 Xbox exclusive, Redfall, into 2023. With Zelda delayed, Starfield would be the biggest game of the holiday season - and it would also launch on Xbox Game Pass on day one.īut you know what they say about making God (or Todd, in this case) laugh. We were finally going to see how much its expensive Bethesda acquisition would pay off for the company as it broadened its arsenal of exclusives. Hot off the successful launches of Forza Horizon 5and Halo Infinite, Microsoft was set to flex its newfound (i.e., newly bought) muscles in 2022. And it still is, just not in the way Microsoft was hoping. This was supposed to be an important year for Xbox.
Starfield is also going to launch day one on Xbox Game Pass.
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The studio is honoring exclusivity commitments to PlayStation, such as Deathloop and GhostWire: Tokyo, but Sunday’s E3 video made it clear that Starfield is for Windows PC and Xbox Series X. Microsoft acquired Bethesda Softworks parent ZeniMax Media last fall. “I’ll just say that.” Is Starfield exclusive to Xbox? The Telegraph astutely pointed to a book on the astronaut’s shelf in the narrative trailer - Sailing Alone Around the World, a memoir published in 1900 by Joshua Slocum, the first person to make a solo circumnavigation of Earth. To The Telegraph, Howard figured that fans would start picking up the pieces “in a few hours when you can stop every frame and look at it in 4K. “When asked about a plant growing in the background of a spaceship shown in the trailer, demurred,” said the Post.
Howard and Bethesda’s developers seem to want fans to fixate on Sunday’s announcement, frame-by-frame, to decipher clues to what Starfield will be when it launches next fall. The trailer shown on Sunday says it involves “humanity’s final journey.” Hey, what’s that thing I saw, you know, in the Starfield trailer? Outside of that, Howard and Bethesda aren’t saying. The player is in a timeline about 300 years ahead of ours. But “it’s the main one you’ll become a part of,” Howard said, although players will encounter and can align with other groups as Starfield’s role-playing narrative moves on.
The Constellation is one of multiple factions within the game - players of Fallout and The Elder Scrolls would expect no less. In an interview given to The Telegraph, Howard mentioned “The Constellation,” which is “this last group of space explorers.” Their activities are “like NASA meets Indiana Jones meets The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” Howard said. Starfield’s game engine will be a leap forward, Bethesda says What’s the story of Starfield?