Xbox's 2024 showcase may have only wrapped up mere days ago, but thoughts are already wandering towards what could appear during next year's event. We've already heard rumours that Xbox could have shown off way more games this year, and now a comment from Matt Booty suggests that quite a lot has been held back for next year as well.
Speaking to Variety, the Xbox exec says that Microsoft is "beginning to hit the rhythm that we’ve always aspired for", and that this rhythm should lead to a big 2025 for the team - both in terms of releases and what could appear at next year's summer showcase.
"The fact that we delivered, hopefully, a critical mass of excitement, and it didn’t depend on those things that we historically go to [Halo and Forza], I think it’s just a good indicator and a good sign that we’ve hit that stride and that we’re going to be able to continue to deliver at that cadence moving forward.
[We're] in a position to hopefully deliver a great lineup and a great showcase next June."
Speaking of those two historic Xbox franchises, Booty says "we’ve got teams working on those projects" and that "we’ve got a lot of cool stuff to share when the time is right". Could Halo and Forza make the 2025 showcase? Who knows, but what we do know is that there's now absolutely loads for Xbox to pick from, which is a great problem to have!
For a look at some of the other things Matt Booty talked about during this new chat with Variety, check out the link down below.
Excited about the future of Xbox and its forthcoming showcases? Drop your thoughts on this down in the comments.
[source variety.com]
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And they only needed to purchase two publishers for that.
Well no doubt we will be seeing more of the Games expected in the second half of 2024 and in 2025. Clockwork Revolution for example was absent this year and of course 'E-Day' could have Game-play to excite. Perfect Dark, State of Decay 3 may return, maybe Fable and South of Midnight release date reveals too.
That's without considering games like Kojima's Xbox game or Contraband - 3rd Party MS Published games - or the First Party Studio Games we don't know about yet. Call of Duty too will likely be at next years show...
Personally, I am interested in seeing a Forza (Horizon) and Halo reveal specifically because I want to see what those games look like when they are designed with only 9th generation hardware in mind, rather than being cross-platform with the Xbox One like Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite were. Same reason I was interested in seeing the Gears of War reveal, and while I know that no gameplay has been shown for that yet, it still seems like the tech will be very promising, especially knowing The Coalition's decent track record.
@BHPM
Totally agree a Forza Horizon and Halo for this generation no cross generation, can’t wait.
As for the showcase, it was a winning formula all they need to do is repeat with the last games.
And of course. “One Last Thing”
@OldGamer999 Absolutely! Both this showcase and 2023's showcase in my opinion were the best showcases of both years, so clearly they are on to something. They just need to keep doing what they are doing, and of course, deliver at or above the quality that they are setting our expectations at.
And man, I know that it is so overdone now and basically every showcase by every company has the "one last thing" at the end, but every time it gets me so hyped since they all usually saved the best for last hahaha
They need to do an indie showcase and a Japanese game showcase. They obviously held 90% of that back from the main showcase. So why not just have more?
@Mustoe I didn’t mean first party. They’ve got a good relationship with both square Enix and sega Atlus. Many games coming from both.
They are also old friends of mistwalker, with previously iOS-only Fantasian coming to Xbox.
But you’d never know any of that from their showcase.
Honestly....don't Microsoft say this every year?
Deliver one time. Then I'll start to believe.
Hopefully the show has great games and none followed by, coming 2073.
It's incredibly annoying and turns me off, completely and totally, for whatever that game is.
Great shows tend to happen when a publisher has a stacked lineup and xbox should have a stacked lineup more often than not.
Xbox is probably the most exciting publisher when it comes to future games.
"We are beginning to hit the rhythm we’ve always aspired for"……………..
4, 5 years later
Hit their stride? Nearly everything we know about is next year.
I actually think next years showcase will be better than this years one.
@tho_mi And they only needed to purchase two publishers for that.
Cash is king and to make money you have to spend money. Ever heard of that? Cause during the PS1-PS2 Sony didn’t have first party either. They bought it. They were and are a hardware team. They had no internal studios. MS on the other hand i can’t figure out how and why it took a software company to slow to understand 4 studios wasn’t enough. Happy to see they woke up.
It was a great show but tbh it shouldn’t have been anything less after spending $100 billion on studios.
@tho_mi
To be fair they purchased more than two publishers. They also purchased a bunch of individual studios before that.
To also be fair creating games is obviously changing and taking a lot longer. Sony has always been considered a great gaming content delivery company. Naughty Dog, Guerilla, Sucker Punch, etc. have all been pretty quiet this past few years. The only developer that seems to be delivering consistently this generation is Insomniac and it is pretty obvious they are just enhancing and improving their engine while putting a new story/paint job on it.
I think a lot of studios have been struggling with the new platforms and what they can potentially create for them. The new platforms allow for massive scope games and a lot of new capabilities. In past generations games taking advantage of new capabilities have taken longer and longer to create. I expect the entire industry is having a similar problem.
By buying so many publishers/studios I think MS has enough total studios that they can generate content consistently. Sony is now much smaller on content creation and it is showing. Their internal studios are struggling to ship new content with frequency.
Tragic that they hit their stride the year they went multiplatform.
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