was doubted heavily from the start, double down on it, and constantly hype and hype and hype it…even using employees to do so.ĭo Sony and Nintendo delay things? Sure…the difference is, you don’t hear hardly anything about the game until it’s almost released or delayed. I will say…I think it’s 100% fair to criticize and be upset (rationally) for them giving a date that now according to Jason S. What else would you like MS to do? Would you like them to be more involved and micromanage their studios? I suppose there’s a balance between being completely off-hand and micromanaging, but I think a studio like BGS would lean more towards the “hands off” end of the scale.

For example, I highly doubt Zenimax would have given them these extra months. Giving your studios more time is a good thing, especially when it’s a tried and tested studio like BGS. Published A new rumor making the rounds online suggests that the upcoming Xbox console exclusive game Redfall could be getting delayed. So what confuses me is all the talk of MS making mistakes, blaming their management etc.Īt least insofar as I can see, their only mistake here was announcing a date at all. If you can’t, well as Jon has always said, this isn’t a democracy. Furthermore, this community has been very vocal with flagging and messages to moderators that this isn’t the type of experience they expect from this community during times like these, and I absolutely agree. Development is extremely difficult over the last two years, and no one is more disappointed by this kind of news than BGS and Arkane but I know for a fact that releasing a game when it’s ready is a far better outcome than releasing similar to Cyberpunk - and some of you can try to deny it, but I know those of you in that camp would be even more outraged if you felt a similar repeat with Starfield. Using this as means to cherry-pick examples of Sony/Nintendo release success for console-warring is also a no-go.Īll some of us are asking for is some objectivity and empathy. Doom-and-glooming about Game Pass’s trajectory/success because Starfield is delayed also falls in there too the service is constantly getting new content and if Halo Infinite’s delay didn’t cause a drop, this won’t either. Implying that Xbox exclusively has problems holding to release dates or releasing content over the past couple years absolutely falls into the latter, as does ignoring the impacts that COVID still has had on development for Xbox and every other developer/publisher on the planet (see my prior Embracer statement). It is absolutely understandable, and acceptable, to be disappointed by today’s news, but let’s keep reality in check and avoid the disingenuous, toxic hyperbole that permeates so much of the online discourse.

Redfall delayed