It’s been a bit of a rough day for Xbox and Microsoft, as a pile of court documents from the recent FTC trial leaked pretty much all of Xbox’s upcoming plans for the next few years. It’s pretty disastrous from a business point of view, yet Phil Spencer has done his best to try and control the damage by acknowledging the leaks and releasing a statement on social media.
In the statement, Spencer attempts to drive home the fact that these leaks were from “old emails and documents”, and that “so much has changed” between now and when they were first written. It’s pretty difficult to imagine that any of the projects that were leaked by these documents will have changed that much or have been cancelled, but it’s true that game development can change radically over the the space of just a year or two.
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That being said, Spencer also states that Xbox isn’t in a hurry to reveal its “real plans” now that all this info is out in the open, and will instead announced titles “when we are ready”. We probably won’t see every title that was leaked all at once, and who knows how far along in development some of them are, but we’ll more than likely have to wait until either Summer Games Fest or the yearly Xbox Showcase in 2024 before we these leaked plans made official.
As for what we can expect now, these documents revealed that Xbox is planning to releaseda “refreshed” Xbox Series X at some point in 2024, which isn’t too surprising considering how many rumors we’ve had regarding a possible new PlayStation 5 model releasing in the same time period. This new model will apparently feature a cylindrical design as opposed to the current Series X’s rectangular one, and it will be an digital-only console with no disc drive.
We also saw a number of potential upcoming Bethesda games leak too, includingremasters of Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Other titles reportedly in development include a new Dishonored, a new Doom, and a sequel to Ghostwire: Tokyo. None of these are too surprising, especially since these titles are all comprised of Bethesda’s heavy hitters, but it’s nice to see Arkane moving back to what it does best after the disaster that was Redfall.
Like Spencer says, it’s worth noting that a few of these plans may have changed, as thousands of potential projects in game development are scrapped before they see the light of day. However, considering that they’re all big IP with name recognition, it’s safe to assume that the next few years are going to be pretty good for Xbox fans.
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