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LtSarge · 2021-04-30T19:40:47+00:00

We're just over a month away from E3 and I thought it would be fun to share our predictions and discuss what Microsoft will be announcing this year. I personally think that there's so much potential for what Microsoft could be announcing. My first prediction is that they'll announce their next acquisition during their presentation. Considering that it's been a fairly long time since the announcement of the ZeniMax acquisition back in September, and that they've now finalised the acquisition, the hype has been dying down. So it makes sense to turn all attention to the next acquisition and I think it'll be either Ubisoft or Square Enix. Microsoft needs to be acquiring corporations rather than individual firms as they're going to be needing a lot of studios to produce titles on Game Pass, just like they did with ZeniMax. Which is why I think it'll be a corporation like Ubisoft or Square Enix. My second prediction ties in with my first one. I think Ubisoft+ will be announced as coming to Game Pass Ultimate, either as a result of acquiring Ubisoft or simply through a partnership if they aren't being acquired. It's still a long way before we start getting more first-party titles on the service and Microsoft needs to keep interest up in some way and I believe that'll be through the addition of Ubisoft+. My final prediction is that they will finally reveal gameplay of Starfield and it will be an Xbox exclusive based on the recent rumours. Even though Halo Infinite will be coming this year, I think it would benefit Microsoft a lot to be able to present a heavy-hitter that will be exclusive to its platforms as a result of the ZeniMax acquisition. All of my predictions have been pretty bog-standard since they are all based on existing rumours. However, I might write some later on that aren't based on anything and maybe aren't likely to occur, e.g. the revival of an old IP, just for fun. I mostly want to see what everyone else will predict.

Topic: Xbox @ E3 2021 Predictions & Discussion

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LtSarge
Tue 15th Jun 2021

@Senua That's awesome, thanks for sharing that! Hopefully I have good enough internet to stream the games. I haven't really tried Xbox Cloud Gaming on any device so I don't know how it will be like for me.

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KilloWertz
Wed 16th Jun 2021

@LtSarge You went from putting Xbox ahead of everybody, to having those three issues with the show but still thinking it was solid, to then not really caring anymore. All in less than 24 hours. It's just extremely surprising.

I'll admit I was wrong to an extent. As far as Xbox Game Studios titles, yeah, there aren't any off the top of my head that will be cross-gen next year. Still, just because I was wrong doesn't mean you were completely right in the end either. Even if I was wrong about 2022, there still will be a decent enough amount of games that will be cross-gen. You will still be able to play pretty much all of their major titles on Xbox One.

In the end, it was the fact that it was such a jarring change coming from you, like I said in the first paragraph.

I was replying to this as I read and now noticed that I'm on ignore. Damn, a bit extreme that there was no effort to try to "talk it out" or whatever. I'll admit I was wrong and let my emotions get the better of me, but I never thought it was quite to that point yet. I was genuinely thrown off by the sudden change in tune and took a while too long to past that. Damn, oh well I guess since he won't even read this anyways. My bad I guess....

[Edited Wed 16th Jun 2021 by KilloWertz]

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