Xbox Exec Refuses To Temper Expectations For 2023 Showcase, Asks Fans To Be 'Open Minded'

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They got games in development for years from all the studios they bought, no one have to tell us to lower our expectations! It's our right for being passionate and waiting for Xbox to deliver... Its now or never

Give me 4 1st party games with gameplay to be release next 1 year with no delays and I will be happy

Indiana Jones! Fable! Halo Infinite story follow up! (Last one is definitely a dream but would love to see it!)

@TakeItEasy my advice would be to come in open-minded 😜

@TakeItEasy I’m expecting 3 instead of 4 as of now. Starfield in September. Forza in the later fall. Hellblade next spring. But I’d love to be surprised!!

Highly unlikely but I'd love a playable demo of Starfield. I'd just boot it up in the background everyday while doing my reward points stuff on my tablet. I just know if that happens I'll get insomnia because I have to be up early Monday for my morning cleaning job and I'll probably be too hyped to sleep properly.

@xMightyMatt14x Speaking of, I've noticed some think Hellblade II will come out this year. I doubt it, since the game has been in full production for around two years. I think Forza is their Q4 game. Between it and Starfield, I'm sitting pretty!

Dammit now I'm too excited

That seems like a dangerous direction to go. I think it encourages the wild expectations to be wilder and then the inevitable post-show deflation to kick in hard at a time when people are already down on the brand. It either means they have a really huge show waiting, or they really do not know how to manage expectations well at all and just DGAF about it now lol

My body is ready

I'd like to see Perfect Dark, Indiana Jones, Fable and Avowed. Lord of the Rings MMO would be cool too, but only if the world is authentic and the characters recognizable, none of that Amazon and WOTC re-imagining for a "modern audience" BS. Something I'd REALLY love, but won't ever happen would be to see an update on Beyond Good & Evil 2!

@Jenkinss Hail, fellow veteran of the Great console wars!

Rarely a good sign when someone tells you in advance to keep an “open mind”… Now I’m worried lol

@GiveMeMoney I was just about to say something similar:
"Open-minded" is a double-edged sword.

This needs to be a pivotal moment for Microsoft to get some goodwill back from its fans after losing some of it with Halo Infinite and Redfall as well as low first-party input compared to the amount of studios Microsoft owns and everything that has been teased so long ago.

It's time, Microsoft.

Show us why we should invest in Series X|S. Show us why having day one releases on Game Pass is a great deal.

NOTE: My Series X is my "everything" machine. I use it as the primary device while my Switch and PS5 are for exclusives only. Still, I would like to see the consoles do better across the board - and great games are the key!

@GiveMeMoney
Yeah, that last PlayStation Showcase was a prime example of a complacent market leader in need of strong competition. The door is open for MS to do something here but when an exec from the company says 'keep an open mind,' that, to me, doesn't signal this is going to be the kind of show the Xbox brand needs it to be. Hope I'm wrong and my expectations are surpassed big time because the Series X is a great piece of hardware, I just don't think MS has taken advantage of it like it deserves.

@Grail_Quest ✊

I'm still tempering expectations. It will likely be good because they have a lot to show but still try to never over-hype.

People get weird about these, I hear people say things like if this isn't the best showcase of all time xbox might be finished.

@BrilliantBill Yeah but it makes more sense to do a "keep expectations in check this is stuff you know about and some third party" instead of a "yeah, feel free to believe Banjo 6 is in planning and we're bought P6 exclusivity...whatever...see you at the show"

It will be a mediocre event.

> It will be a mediocre event.

Always with the negative waves!

@xMightyMatt14x 3 will be good but I will be happier and it will be a strong comeback for Xbox to have 4 games 1 games in each Q

Don't forget stalker 2 seem to be possible and avowed too... I will happy even with a 4th being AA game

What a dweeb lol.
Remember when Xbox was the cool kid?

Could it be a mmorpg
World of warcaft or star wars: the old republic on the xbox series s/x

So, basically, how I approach every livestream event. I can live with that.

Need dates for silksong, darktide, routine, hellblade 2, stalker 2, lies of p and replaced. Hopefully we finally see avowed gameplay, wouldn't mind gears trilogy remake (not remaster), and some new reveals. No more time wasted on games weve already seen a couple times. Also no one cares about sports games or movie or show adaptations....unless it's gears or fallout. Games only

All this “Wild” talk ma makes me feel everwild is in route

@Gamer83 - "the Series X is a great piece of hardware, I just don't think MS has taken advantage of it like it deserves"

I totally agree with you on this. Whenever my Sony buddies talk crap about console sales figures, I just wonder what it would actually look like if we had a regular release of decent AAA games. I'd love to be able to stand toe-to-toe with Sony and Nintendo friends (I enjoy these platforms too, for the record) and fire off a list of Xbox exclusives that are must-play experiences. We used to have that in the X360 generation.

I think if Starfield, Forza Motorsport, Avowed, Hellblade, and Fable all SUCCESSFULLY launch within the next 18-24 months, and we get the library of ABK merger games on Game Pass, we will be able to hold our heads REALLY high. That feels like a very possible scenario right now, and definitely would give us some bragging rights. That's all we really want right now, to love our Xbox and enjoy bragging to friends about it

Expectations = Starfield 60fps
Xbox = Sorry, 30fps.

@GiveMeMoney
I'd just like it to get back to how it was in the 7th gen when all 3 were thriving. I'm more of a PlayStation guy but like you I also game on other platforms. I've bought each Xbox so I want to see the brand thriving and it would also benefit gaming as a whole for Sony to have strong competition again.

Whats going to be shown off
More forza
Perfect dark
Contraband
Starfield
Wolfenstien
Some kind of crisis with dinos

Although normally this would get me really excited, I've learnt from experience to temper my expectations anyway. Shall see what they announce but 'keep an open mind' doesn't sound good.

Can't be as bad as the Sony one. That was literal dumpfest.

@GamingFan4Lyf open minded is what your favorite musician or rapper tells you before their new album is a complete departure from what got them to the dance.

“It will be more then just games coming out in the next 12 months”. Great, I’m still waiting for games I was told I needed a series s/x to play and now your gonna go even further out. Cheese and rice Xbox.

Temper expectations. Under promise, over deliver.

Nothing over the past couple of years has come out that of gone " this is f**king amazing" been more meh it's alright. Most games they have been releasing are small indie games. Don't get me wrong some have been really good but where is the AAA games. Something I can grap and not put down for weeks