Xbox Game Studios' Crystin Cox Says Microsoft Has "Over a Dozen Games in Development

According to the Director of Live Game Operations at Xbox Game Studios, Crystin Cox, Microsoft has more than a "dozen games" in development.

[shinoff2183]

Makes sense. Even before they bought Activision they had more studios then sony and Nintendo if I'm not mistaken. I don't think it's anything to brag about considering this trillion dollar company just went a whole year and a half poor little ol me ING itself.

[Shane Kim]

One and half? They have basically had nothing except for Forza in the last decade.

[Zeref]

Don't you people get tired of being this disengenious all the time when it comes to Xbox?

[Shane Kim]

It is not. You can Google it and all you'll see is the same old Forza, Gears and Halo combo.

[ThinkThink]

The title of the video is misleading. This is for the xbox games publishing team. None of the dozen+ games they are referring to are first party internal studios. The interesting part was hearing that they often aquire the studios that this specific team works with.

[Godmars290]

And then there's examples like Perfect Dark. Reportedly in multiple levels of development hell. Or that Rare announced title which they had no idea what it was when announced.

Aside from Froza which seems to come out every other year, as a driving game is a simple enough concept to do so, the only games coming from MS with much issue are ones already in development from studios they buy. Before being bought.

[Flawlessmic]

I mean well yea they have well over a dozen studios......

In other news, water is also wet.

[Sniperwithacause]

Water isn't wet. Water is a liquid, it makes things wet.

[purple101]

It does, It doesn't make all things wet though

Any more people to expand
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[DigitallyAfflicted]

Just wanted to point out that water is a gas condensed into a liquid

[Flawlessmic]

Cool story, thank you

[NotoriousWhiz]

But does water make water wet?

[Godmars290]

Which also has nothing to do with MS making games...

[Zeref]

This is just Xbox Publishing. This doesn't include their internal studios.

[lelo2play]

Only a dozen?
With the number of studios Microsoft have, it's likley there are way more then a dozen games in development.

[Sniperwithacause]

Well, they probably have multiple studios working on the same game. So more than 12 studios, but double dipping to help create a single game.
Just my guess on it.

[ThinkThink]

This is just the xbox publishing team. It's separate of all the xbox game studios and bethesda.

[Godmars290]

But likely only a few are able to make something to MS's limited mindset for what a game is.

Forget that after abandoning FPS, a genre heading towards burnout around that time, MS never really figured out what a good game is.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Let's wait and see.

[Yi-Long]

This. A statement like ‘over a dozen games in development’ means very little/nothing when we don’t know what kind of games they are. If half of them are GaaS titles, that’s already an automatic pass for me. Maybe some are mobile games. Not interested. Maybe some are Online MP only. Not interested.

If we’re talking about SP AAA-games and cool original smaller budget ‘indie’ games, THEN I’m interested, but we’ll just have to wait and see what they’ll be coming out with.

[Obscure_Observer]

Keep them coming, team! Really excited about those amazing new games!

Hellblade II, Avowed, Towerborne and Fligh Simulator 2024 next year, are in line with Xbox´s goals to release 4 first party games per year! Not to mention S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2, Flintlock and other amazing AAA games from third party that will be available to us day one on Gamepass.

Xbox got 2024 covered and packed with great games!

[jznrpg]

I got big money that list is mostly looking crappy after release. Stalker is 6 mod timed exclusive as well.

[Obscure_Observer]

"I got big money that list is mostly looking crappy after release"

And I bet big money you won´t have a better list of first party games to play in 2024 so just make sure spare us all of your arrogant remarks.

[PhillyDonJawn]

I thought Stalker was gonna be multiplat at release

[obidanshinobi]

lol
We'll be lucky if 2 of the games you've listed are actually released in 2024.

[Elda]

Stalker 2 is coming to other platforms. XB will have it exclusively for only 3 months.

[1Victor]

@ obscure:”Keep them coming, team! ”
Sorry but I’ll be the one to interrupt you there and scream THATS WHAT SHE SAID during your speech

Any ways good for them I hope they’re the quality and amazing stories the Xbox community deserves for the last 15+ years

[obidanshinobi]

And how many of these will be any good?

I have zero confidence in Xbox under Phil Spencer's leadership, they can't manage a first party studio to save their lives.

Too many of their games are in development hell - Hellblade 2, Avowed, Perfect Dark, Fable, Everwild and probably a few more I can't remember off the top of my head.

If Xbox were competent we would've had Starfield and Forza last year and be looking at Hellblade 2 and Avowed this year. But were not, because they're studios are really badly managed.
They could have a much bigger share of the console market if they could be bothered, if they were proactive and if they had a passion for gaming. But they don't, Xbox is run by suits, business managers who aren't gamers, greed shapes their decisions and that makes them very short sighted. Remember when Phil was asked what his favourite game was in an interview many years ago, his answer was some kids co-op game that he played with his young daughter, Xbox management are not gamers, they don't really know what they're doing.

[Obscure_Observer]

@obidanshinobi

Phil Spencer is a true gamer and has his Xbox gamertag public to anyone to see. I can´t say the same about Jim Ryan or Hurst, so correct if I´m wrong.

Xbox has never been in better hands than it is under Phil Spencer because he makes srue Xbox gamers has no reason for being jealous of anything the competion has.

Unlike his predecessors, Xbox under Phil is mostly focused in single player and RPG games, than never before! You can try and deny all you want, but it´s just facts.

Xbox is definitely the platform that will have the most rich and genre diverse library of first party games among any console platform.

Some people predicted that games would be low quality because first party games would not be sustainable been day one on Gamepass.

Well, I look at Starfield and Forza Motorsport been day one on Gamepass while I look at competiton´s $70 price tag offerings, and I say with confidence that we´re good.

[obidanshinobi]

"Phil Spencer is a true gamer and has his Xbox gamertag public to anyone to see. I can´t say the same about Jim Ryan or Hurst, so correct if I´m wrong."
I bet Phil's gamertag is just PR, in fairness he probably doesn't have the spare time to play games.

"Xbox is definitely the platform that will have the most rich and genre diverse library of first party games among any console platform."
When? Where are these games?
- John Travolta Pulp Fiction confused gif -
We've been hearing the same "the games are coming" spiel for almost 3 years. Patience is running out with Xbox gamers.

[Godmars290]

Phil is and always has been MS's mouthpiece. Sadly just like all Xbox CEOs before him. And MS have never been interested or focused on console gaming, which is way they've had at least one major console gen mess up. Usually from conception.

As for Ryan, he needs to go. Knows eff-all about the industry. That non-PSP proves that.

@obidanshinobi:
"When? Where are these games?"

At current rate, right when thier next system is announced. If there is one.

[PhillyDonJawn]

How are Hellblade 2 and Fable in development hell?

[Sonic1881]

I couldn't agree more 💯👏🏼 it's been like that for nearly two decades

[CrimsonWing69]

Yea yea, meanwhile I’m still waiting for f*cking Hellblade 2.

[PhillyDonJawn]

I need Fable, Perfect Dark and SOD3.

[BrainSyphoned]

So 13 games from 23 studios.

[Disccordia]

Not quite - As has been said multiple times above, this is talking about Xbox publishing - ie. second party games like As Dusk Falls.

I believe the only one we know about is Contraband by Avalanche, a game by People can Fly and possibly an IO James Bond game.

[Obscure_Observer]

"I believe the only one we know about is Contraband by Avalanche, a game by People can Fly and possibly an IO James Bond game."

Towerborne by Stoic, unannounced new IP from Kojima Productions, Project Dragon from IO and, I heard rumors about a new unannounced IP by A Plague Tale´s developer, Asobo Studio.

[GamingSinceForever]

The real question is how many of them are gamers really going to care about? It’s quality over quantity.

[jjb1981]

Where's Perfect Dark?

[obidanshinobi]

In development hell, like most of Xbox's first party games.

[jjb1981]

True, unfortunately. This has been on my most-anticipated list since it was announced.

[jznrpg]

Well they recently bought Zenimax which had a lot of studios and some smaller studios like Incile too plus some smaller studios too. What’s crazy to me is before buying all of these multi platform studios they were in business for almost 20 years and had so little so show for it.

So they bought a lot of multiplatform studios who were already making games to call them their own wow good job.

[Dazelya]

Ok. Moar Scamfield please...

[northpaws]

And... the cycle repeat... wait for the next good game.

[anast]

That's a lot of mobile games and other random jank.

[Aloymetal]

Yup most likely 10 indies and 2 Gamepass shovelware...

[anast]

Exactly, they just keep giving it to their fans.

[randomvoice]

Don't they have over 12 studios? What are the others doing then?

[Doomeduk]

Now that Bethesda is under MS wing they can all share the Creation engine and get the benefit of its high end tech that makes loading screens a thing of the past ..

[mastershredder]

uhhh does this even need to be stated? Game studio conglomerate is making multiple games…. and the world is shocked.

[Sonic1881]

Quality over Quantity please. Most of these games will probably be fillers or always online service titles made for gamepass

[DragoonUS]

They bought more then a dozen games in develepment.

[Northpoint]

I'd rather have 6 high quality games than over a dozen Game Pass level games.

[Abear21]

More talk about games coming…

[Profchaos]

Saying you have a ton of games in Dev is one thing releasing them is another.
If they come out like redfall why bother.

[PCgamer98]

Don't care about xbox, but it's a good time to be a pc gamer.

[Huey_My_D_Long]

Good, hopefully more can deliver good quality product

[DOMination-]

It's good that they are expanding the publishing arm. The "second-party" concept isn't used much these days. They also have around 45 verifiable games in development internally.

As ever with MS there's a lot of promises but we're still waiting to see if any of this comes to fruition. The first games off the conveyor belt this year are "mixed" to say the least. Even the ever-reliable FM seems to be having mixed previews. But on paper at least, it sounds like a positive step in the right direction - maybe Xbox isn't quite dead just yet.

[Cockney]

Patsy