Xbox Series X still set to launch on schedule, but games could be delayed

[Andrew]

Microsoft’s Xbox chief, Phil Spencer, says the company’s next-gen Xbox Series X console is still on schedule for later this year, but game production is a little more of an unknown. In an interview with CNBC, Spencer notes that there could be “some impact” to Xbox Series X schedules, but that “the teams are doing a very good job with keeping our hardware on track” and “overall we’re in line with where we thought we would be.”

 

Microsoft hasn’t provided an exact release date for the Xbox Series X beyond holiday 2020. Several official Xbox sites listed a launch date of “Thanksgiving 2020” back in March, but Microsoft said this was inaccurate and the company was still committed to launching in holiday 2020. If Microsoft was planning to launch the Xbox Series X as soon as November, the company’s vague holiday 2020 schedule gives Microsoft some wiggle room either way.

 

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I wonder what the real reason for this is. You cannot really blame Covid so far as a software development point of view as by the time Covid hit, some of these titles should have been virtually finished already...if not finished. Granted however I can imagine that disc production may have been impacted by Covid with factories on the lockdown. Looking at the article though it is good to see that Halo Infinite is not an Xbox exclusive, will clearly hit the Master Chief collection at some point then.

[Andrew]

I suppose it doesn't matter all that much. Microsoft are treating the Xbox basically like a PC these days, the Series X has full backwards compatibility with the Xbox One/One X as well as hundreds of original Xbox and Xbox 360. And yeah, the Xbox doesn't have exclusives any more. They're are Microsoft exclusives now. All Xbox exclusive titles that have been released after 2016 has been available on Windows 10 as well.

[ENTERPRISE]

I suppose it doesn't matter all that much. Microsoft are treating the Xbox basically like a PC these days, the Series X has full backwards compatibility with the Xbox One/One X as well as hundreds of original Xbox and Xbox 360. And yeah, the Xbox doesn't have exclusives any more. They're are Microsoft exclusives now. All Xbox exclusive titles that have been released after 2016 has been available on Windows 10 as well.

 

Yeah in reality the Xbox is really just pre-build gaming machine PC that has access to virtually all of the MS library. There will always be a market for console even if they are virtually a PC, just means less excuse for crappy ports lol. That being said, lazy developers be lazy sometimes.