Here's how Xbox Series X could beat PS5 in the console wars

Here's how Xbox Series X could shell PS5 in the panel wars

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We know that Microsoft has large plans for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Serial S over the adjacent few years, with titles including Fable, Perfect Night and Avowed all currently without a release date. And that's earlier y'all get into the very-likely-to-be exclusive games up Bethesda's sleeve, including Starfield, The Elder Scrolls vi and an intriguing-sounding Indiana Jones game.

Just one insider believes that this is just the tip of the iceberg of what Microsoft is set to be offering in the side by side few years, with a "conservative, low estimate" that only effectually a 3rd of starting time-party Microsoft games in evolution have been formally announced.

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Windows Key's Jez Corden made the claim on The Xbox 2 podcast, which you can mind to in full here. The relevant department comes when Corden is asked nearly Microsoft's upcoming roadmap of games and how much has been revealed, every bit transcribed by Pure Xbox.

"I would say, out of the [games] I know, and in that location's games that I don't know nigh... as a complete ballpark estimate, and this is a conservative, low estimate, I'd say virtually a third of the games accept been announced from Xbox Game Studios right now."

This, Corden explains, is a low estimate because he doesn't know "anything that Bethesda'due south working on by and large," and is unaware of the rumored Hideo Kojima title either.

But while that number may exist bourgeois, it might also be optimistic, likewise, thanks to the nature of video game development. As Corden adds, "a lot of these games might get cancelled." There is, after all, a reason that companies don't announce everything they're working on at any given fourth dimension, equally that's a recipe for disappointment.

Only overall, he's upbeat: "but I don't think they volition, because the information that I got is… it sounds to me like these are happening, so who knows. I'm but so excited for the futurity right at present. So excited."

There are currently 23 outfits that collectively make upward Microsoft Game Studios, of which viii are subsidiaries of Bethesda. If each i were working on a new game — non guaranteed for various reasons including DLC, co productions and other projects — so you could get equally many as five or six commencement-party games a twelvemonth, bold a iii-four year production cycle for each championship.

Some volition require more time, others less, of form, but there is certainly potential for the Xbox Series X and S to be swimming in exclusives over the next few years. And with Microsoft currently insisting that all starting time-party titles will be available to play as role of a Game Pass subscription, it may well be worth hunting down those elusive Xbox Series X restocks as they become available.

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