As Xbox prepares for its big Xbox & Bethesda Showcase on Sunday, the company spoke to the press earlier this week to prepare the stage. During a briefing, they confirmed that Xbox Cloud Gaming will get its first TV apps in Samsung’s 2022 range, along with the ability to play games you’ve purchased that aren’t part of your Xbox Game Pass library. In addition, exclusive Xbox game demos will also come to the Xbox Game Pass service, as the cloud platform expands to new countries with even more servers to meet global demand.
With Xbox increasingly looking to the cloud and its Xbox Game Pass subscription service to grow, exclusive content has become increasingly important in all of its industries, including computers and the console. Last year, Microsoft topped the list of Metacritic publishers for review scores and will look to achieve a similar result during the next fiscal year, which for Microsoft begins in July.
In a press release, Microsoft described its intention to “meet or exceed” the number of games it launched in 2022, which included Age of Empires IV, Flight Simulator, Psychonauts 2, Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5.
“The last prosecutor released 5 new games through the console, the computer and the cloud. We are on track to reach or exceed that amount in the next prosecutor.”
This can be assumed to include Starfield, the space role-playing game from the creators of The Elder Scrolls, and modern Fallout games. Starfield has been delayed since 2022, but is expected to be released before next summer, as it is undergoing extensive polishing. Chances are Redfall is another game we’ll see before next summer as well. Redfall is a 4-player cooperative vampire action game from the creators of Dishonored and the restart of Prey.
Beyond these two games, it falls a bit towards speculation. Most likely candidates for other games to be released by next summer include RPG Avowed, from the developers of Pillars of Eternity. We were also able to see how the Forza Motorsport 8 simulation racer also emerges. There are other potential candidates, such as the Leaked Stoic Bell Tower Project, or the Obsidian Repentance.
I suspect we’ll have a better idea of what we can expect to see from Microsoft’s big Xbox & Bethesda Showcase this Sunday, June 12th. However, one thing is certain: Xbox fans will have a lot to play with.