Leaked court documents from the FTC case against Microsoft show that Microsoft’s gaming chief, Phil Spencer, admits that the Star field the delay was a bad situation for the company’s Xbox Game Pass lineup.
Like Eurogamer relationshipsIn a May 2022 email to colleagues, Spencer called the delay of Bethesda’s sci-fi role-playing game a “disastrous situation,” and said the lack of clarity on the game’s launch date Redfall AND Stalker 2 at the time – the latter of which was affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine – left “a huge hole in our game lineup for both marketing/platform differentiation and our Game Pass content.”
“Let’s keep talking about a [big] AAA a quarter [sic] in the service [Game Pass] and it looks like we’re probably going to go through a gap of almost 16 months between big exclusive launches on our platform,” Spencer said. “This is really a disastrous situation for us, given everything we’ve invested in content at our GP studios. content fund.”
He went on to say that he thinks Microsoft and the team should get better at portfolio planning for its games with “real honesty in dates” after setting “a very high bar in 2021 in terms of quality and pace,” but entering 2022 without big problems. launching exclusives “is a lack of portfolio planning that we cannot afford.”
“We all need to understand that the situation we find ourselves in now is a failure of our production planning and execution,” Spencer added.
The email continues, with Spencer expressing his frustration with the situation: “It will be very obvious to the community with both our lack of updates on so many games and the lack of clarity on almost everything in the show that we are out position.
“We’ve been through difficult situations before, we’ll do it again. I’m frustrated with where we are, but we will get through this. The most important thing is to build a winning plan. Let’s move forward.”
In particular, when Spencer talked about the importance of launching third-party games on Game Pass and which games he should focus on, Sarah Bond, head of the Xbox ecosystem, responded: “While I don’t like the momentum of this discussion , I like that we’re doing this and we agree that we can improve and become more integrated in how we think about this.”
Bond then listed a collection of third-party games to potentially add to the service, Included Baldur’s Gate 3, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Mortal Combat 1, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Dying light 2, City skyline 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Knights of GothamAND Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
Spencer responded to the Bond listing and also talked about how he might go about adding FromSoftware’s game library to Game Pass next Elden Ringit’s a huge success.
“Another option with the hit factor out there Elden Ring it’s trying to go and get everything Dark souls you play and make a push with From and an Elden Ring upsell,” he said, to which Bond replied: “Like that. It’ll be fine.”
As previously mentioned, this email chain dates back to May 2022, and none of FromSoftware’s titles have arrived on Xbox Game Pass yet, so it’s unclear if this is still a goal for Microsoft.
There is even more information to be gleaned from the leaked court documents. According to a presentation, Microsoft plans to release its next Xbox console in 2028, while other documents show an analysis of a number of games in the works, such as remastering plans The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion AND Fallout 3.
For more, here is our list of the best Xbox Seriesas well as ours the best Xbox Game Pass titles on sale.
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