Xbox Exec Explains Why Some Games Are Day One...

What’s Happening

Let’s talk about “We’re going to try and be more consistent”.

There have been some fire interviews with the likes of the Halo: Campaign Evolved and Gears of War: E-Day teams going live over at GamesRadar this week, and their latest one is with Xbox Game Studios head Craig Duncan. It’s a big interview that goes over a lot of different topics, but one of the most interesting bits for us is how he discusses “day one” releases on PS5 and other platforms. (yes, really)

In general, he insists that Xbox wants its games “to reach News Xbox Xbox Game Studios PS5 Xbox Exec Explains Why Some Games Are ‘Day One’ For PS5, And Others Aren’t “We’re going to try and be more consistent” by Fraser Gilbert 25 mins ago : 0 There have been some fire interviews with the likes of the Halo: Campaign Evolved and Gears of War: E-Day teams going live over at GamesRadar this week, and their latest one is with Xbox Game Studios head Craig Duncan.

The Details

Here’s a bit of his response: “There’s always development realities about when these projects start – how big a team is, and what plans we have at the start of development. Like you dropped, when a strategy changes, maybe you’ve got a plan that exists with a game and maybe you can adopt that, maybe you can’t.

And to be clear, this is totally fair feedback. Sometimes we are inconsistent.

Why This Matters

You see some games in one place, some games in multiple places. Just know that we’re going to work on that, and we’re going to try and be more consistent with what we do. ” Duncan is then asked about whether he wants to see all Xbox first-party releases landing on other platforms at release in the future, and he explains that “optionality” is still fr important and releasing on all platforms at once might not make sense for certain titles — Grounded 2 is one of the examples he gives.

Gaming fans have strong opinions about moves like this, and for good reason.

Key Takeaways

Again, here’s more of what he had to say: ”…
So that may lead to a bit of optionality.
Which is to say, if we’re only in a position to release a game on a platform and not have it show up fr well?
Then I think we wouldn’t do that.