As far as first person games go, Microsoft has been having a tough time and Xbox head Phil Spencer acknowledged that after Scalebound’s cancellation. At the time, Spencer agreed that the team had to “take risks” and keep developing first party games.
Now, Spencer is doubling down on that thought, saying that Xbox fans should look at how Xbox has been evolving and apply that same dedication to the games they are working on:
“Right now the focus is really on the content that we’re building. I know I get some community pushback on our first-party [slate], and what position we’re in, and I want to say to people: that same level of commitment you felt from myself and from the team as we’ve evolved platform over the last three years–as we’ve evolved service over the last three years, as we’ve evolved and innovated hardware over the last three years–is going on with our first party. I don’t want to go and pre-announce a bunch of things, but we are upping our investment, there’s no doubt about that.”
The Xbox brand has definitely been making some moves, and those moves are coming from the feedback fans/users have been giving them. With Project Scorpio on the horizon, Xbox gamers have been teased with a “diverse lineup” of Xbox games – something that is teased once again in the quote above but at a smaller level.
Spencer didn’t want to “pre-announce a bunch of things” which suggests that Microsoft has a few announcements planned for E3 2017 – at least we have to trust that they do. We know there are a number of indie games in development and hopefully those aren’t the announcements that have been teased.
[Guardian]
