One Of Xbox's 'Forthcoming' Games Could Take An Entire Decade To Develop

I imagine if the parent company was better at managing, it would be 5-6 years

I'd say this is the new Fable or next Gears of War.

Also it seems like something happened in May 2022 that halted gamepass growth or lowered it.

It has to be Fallout. Think about it. We know that the timetable for BGS is Starfield in 2023, TESVI next and there's a one pager for Fallout 5
TESVI will be this decade, probably 2028-9 and then Fallout 5 by 2033-4.

@Kaloudz Problem is that outside of maybe Gears and Forza most other games are either new IP, reboot, or semi-reboot. Meaning that with each game dev team starts from scratch and doesn't recycle much. If you want games to come out fairly quickly you need to find a formula and a tech stack and stick to it. That is basically true for all games that are released regularly, like CoD, AC, Far Cry, and even something like Horizon FW and GoW Ragnarok. They build on existing work instead of starting from scratch (looking at our default whipping boy 343 Industries 😂).

10 years doesn’t mean 10 years of full production, it includes creating a AAA game studio and staffing it, which is why they need to make acquisitions if they want to compete now.

From starting a AAA game studio to actually shipping the game it takes around 10 years. We are seeing that with The Initiative studio developing perfect dark, and what is also essentially a new studio to develop the next Fable.

You don’t just get hundreds of highly qualified people knocking on your door on day one to be able to enter full production.

If I had to guess, my guess would be Elder Scrolls

Just release it with degraded graphics in 4 year's and do a "remake" 6 years later with upgraded visuals? The industry needs to figure out something here because 10 years to make a game is crazy! Financially its a massive risk and....it's just crazy!

10 years to develop? And it’s not guaranteed to hit. The game could flop and then all that time and money poured into it would be totally wasted.

I’m guessing it’s going to be something like Elder Scrolls. It’s an established series and I'm not sure they would allow a new IP to take that amount of time. I don’t think it will be Fable as Microsoft wanted to show some of that off but the team wanted to wait till it’s further along.

It's obviously Fallout 5! Considering it's not even entered active development yet, Elder Scrolls 6 is to follow Starfield (and it's presumable X2 DLC's) and only then will it be a new Fallout.

Elder scrolls 6 very likely. As far as we know the game is barely in pre-production and Todd takes forever to make a game.

Fallout 5 could so take forever but unless it’s on parallel development with ES6, or handled by someone else, it won’t even be heard of for maybe 15 or 20 years….

I miss when games were less ambitious and delivered more regularly. In playing Fallout 3 right now, I wish we just got more games of that scale.

@Kaloudz I mean, the fact that Microsoft fired a third of the studio alongside the entire upper management that "resigned" basically means it is not the same thing now. We have a bit of a "Ship of Theseus" thing on our hands.
Generally yes, first-party studios do collaborate and help out. Problem is that under Xbox apparently, The Coalition is the only one that has a clue what they are doing.

@BrilliantBill The Coalition and I’d say Turn 10 are the only ones who know what they’re doing. The rest seem to do an hours work a day and spend the rest of the time in the office yoga room.

It could be any game this 10 year one, I wouldn’t like to guess. Wouldn’t even be surprised if it ended up taking 12 years with how most Xbox studios work.

@UltimateOtaku91 Redfall and Starfield were delayed in May 2022

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/05/12/bethesda-delays-starfield-and-redfall-to-2023-leaving-xboxs-2022-barren/

There's the Forbes article from May 2022

They're obviously working on Duke Nukem Forever 2

Don't most Xbox game take a decade to develop?

@Kaloudz Probably not, but if the strategy and direction of brand is set in a very solid way. It doesn't matter that much who comes next. I assume Sarah Bond is the next one in line? And I mean...Bond...Sarah Bond.😂😂😂

xbox is really starting to disgust me.

With Avowed already in the works my bet is on the ES6 being the game.

It’s of course elder scrolls 6. But the fact it’s MS it could literally be any game…as we wait close to half a decade on average now from when these games announced to actually being released. 🤷🏻

ES 6 should absolutely NOT take another decade.

Like Halo Infinite did?

They should really split up (or bulk up) the fallout/elder scroll studio. These franchises need a sequel in development almost immediately after the game is finished. There should always be a mainline elder scrolls and fallout title in active developement.

How is this news? Microsoft spending less than a decade on a game would be newsworthy 😂

@KaijuKaiser At last, we agree on something 👍 😂

I don't like the meme-qualities of this information.
Crazy how different game development is now versus the last couple of decades.

And by then the tech and features will be outdated with games doing what that game will already have done

In 10/11/2020 I bought xbox series x and playing every day between 6 and 8 hours , Game pass is the best thing that ever happened in the history of entertainment that's why I don't need any new first party games because I live in heaven. But I have a problem with Microsoft's marketing. They distract me with their constant promises and often... It doesn't happen as I imagined it

I'm so excited to play Starfield +1000 hours and I wish they would slow down and focus on developing Fable because it's my favorite game

It's funny how the headline is all about some game taking a decade like he's some juicy leak and the whole thread is unanimously like ".... Isn't that all of them?"

@Moonglow Yeah the thing with Ms is really just the fact that they have no release cadence at all so they're always in a drought. Most in these circles know the history of why, but the look is bad. I mean Ubisoft has a better release cadence and they just cancelled half their projects. Complicated history but a bad look, plus the delays, and the icing is really Halo taking forever and then still limping out of the gate. It's a meme but it's mixed with a lot of painful truth, too.

Kojima, heck with him 10 years would be a miracle. And a 70b for abk will look like a bargain compared to his first 5 years 😂

Microsoft, please take the Fallout licence away from Bethesda and give it to Obsidian.

It’s Starfield!!! They’re gonna delay it again!!! 🤨🤦‍♂️😂

@Fenbops Playground doesnt know what they are doing? InXile doesn't know what they are doing? Doublefine doesnt know what they are doing? Obsidian who put out 2 games last year doesn't know what they are doing? I really dont understand the hatejerk, it's out of control.

@Rmg0731
We are seeing games take longer and longer to create if they are next gen and based on a new game engine. We haven't heard anything from a lot of the biggest studios that are working on new games. Suicide Squad has been in development since 2016 and will ship in 2024. TLOU2 shipped in 2020 and Naughty Dog has not said anything about a new game since. The Coalition shipped Gears 5 in 2020 and no new full game since. Rare shipped Sea of Thieves in 2018 and Everwild hasn't seen the light of day yet. Diablo III released in 2012 and will ship this year. Starfield was trademarked in 2013 but concepts started well before then. etc. etc.

We are seeing new next gen games on new game engines take more and more time to create. In some cases there are management and development problems for sure, but also, it just takes longer to do new things in games. Also, the effort to eliminate crunch time at studios is probably affecting game schedules.