Here, Redfall’s failure has to be owned by Microsoft. It’s true that Square Enix’s Forspoken earlier this year reviewed similarly poorly and was PlayStation console exclusive, that was still ultimately on Square Enix. I recall some “insider” rumors that Redfall was coming in hot (which is clearly true) and that Starfield was coming in even hotter.Īs for Redfall, this is a rare black mark for Arkane, which will have to do some soul-searching after this one, and I have to know what reaction, if any, Microsoft is going to have to this, whether its with Arkane specifically or its larger first-party plans. I genuinely wonder if Starfield will be hit with yet another delay, this time into 2024, to try to make sure it doesn’t have a botched launch in the wake of this, because Xbox just cannot afford that. At least until its next big test, Starfield, which was delayed a year from its confidentially projected 2022 release date, and now has even more pressure on it as something that has to turn the narrative around after Redfall here. These poor Redfall scores are about to crater discourse for months about Xbox and its first party ambitions. It’s hard to overstate what this is about to do to Xbox discourse, where there have long been rumblings that Microsoft has mismanaged its first party studios, with an entire Xbox One generation devoid of massive excusive hits, the delay and middling launch of Halo Infinite and now the beginning of high profile acquired studio projects.
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