I torsdags kväll körde Microsoft sitt event Xbox Games Showcase och visade upp massor av spel på väg till framför allt Xbox Series X. Men när det kommer till förstapartsspel - däribland Avowed, Everwild, Fable och State of Decay 3 - fick vi mestadels bara se hårt scriptade trailers med minimalt gameplay.
Igår rapporterade vi att Undead Labs (State of Decay 3) och Rare (Everwild) gått ut med att de fortfarande är relativt tidiga i utvecklingsfasen, och nu låter kända insidern Dusk Golem (som har ett gediget facit för framför allt Capcom-läckor) tycka till om saken i en serie tweets:
"So little tweet wall about Microsoft I've decided to make public. This is about people getting all grumpy about CG trailers with no gameplay, but I know the reason why & can talk about it. No one has to believe me as I never publicly talked about this before, but I knew a few people who worked closely with Microsoft around 2 years ago, in 2018. There was a HUGE change in power internally within Microsoft, previously Microsoft the Tech Company (not the games studio) made all the head decisions, but in 2018 that changed. Leadership was shifted over to Microsoft Game Studios so they could make the head decisions for Xbox X, and they went to work. They acquired a ton of studios & greenlit a lot of projects, while also committing to finishing the projects the old heads had already greenlit.
Now you may notice with that timeline, that means most games exclusively for next-gen were only greenlit about 2 years ago, so they've only been in development for 2 years. I actually knew about Fable the moment it was greenlit, which was mid-2018. So probably today's showing is what they could show, they have a lot of things in the works, but a lot of it is just too early to show. So they want to let people know certain things are in dev, they are coming, but they're a bit away from being in a presentable state due simply most being 2 or less years in dev."
Detta är helt i linje med våra egna källor, och det verkar alltså som att vi får vänta med att se gameplay från Microsofts förstapartsspel från deras nyligen inköpts studios. Det finns helt enkelt inget att visa upp ännu.
Avowed var ett av flera Microsoft-spel som utannonserades utan gameplay.
