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Anonymous person on 4ch*n wrote:There will be two "next generation" Xbox digital events in the next two months.
The one in May will be pretty much like a proper console reveal event, but it'll have selected "showcase" game announcements/demos as well.
The one in June will be their replacement for E3. Show packed with games.
The exact form of these two is still being worked on as we speak. It'll be live streamed video content though.
There will be tons of new games by Xbox first-party. Big guns. Medium games. A few smaller ones. Their new games are sharing a lot of tech, built for UE4. From water to PBR, GI, procedural systems with optimized Houdini access, VRS optimizations, physical vegetation systems etc., the teams try to share tech to accelerate development.
Fable is one of these showcase games. A fantasy monster. I haven't seen it personally, but I got told it looks beautiful. They try to build the whole fantasy world with hand-crafted photogrammetry, yet the world will throw in a mix of procerural generation for bigger scale. Complete RPG systems in place, focus on great third-person fights and fluid animations. From the sounds of it, I expect the game to hit in 2022.
Big exclusive new IP coming from a Japanese studio. No further details known.
Halo Infinite has a huge open-world you can explore, yet the story missions themselves are linear to still be able to progress through the story in a more classic way. Optional exploration. It's a much more ambitious campaign this time around, not your usual 6-9 hours Halo campaign. They are doing one very bold move for multiplayer, which will surprise people, but this move has the potential bring Halo MP back among the top played games on Xbox.
Obsidian - OMG Obsidian!
FM gets a complete reboot. Internal retooling of ForzaTech happened during the last few years already. Engine in position for next-gen now.
Further reboots coming. Just a tease of what's to come.
The next two months are going to be fire. Phil not holding back.
'Xbox Series S,' a.k.a., Xbox 'Lockhart'
As per some of our earlier information on Xbox "Lockhart" and the Xbox Series X, we're expecting Lockhart to be a 4TF "entry-point" to next-gen gaming, and it should effectively replace the Xbox One X. This system is designed to be affordable but will offer aspects of a next-gen experience currently unavailable to past-gen consoles, presumably in the form of NVME loading speeds and perhaps some limited ray-tracing. We have no idea about the capabilities of Lockhart outside that magical "4TF" GPU number, which came alongside more of our detailed Xbox Series X info that turned out to be accurate.
Recently, we heard Lockhart is entering take home stages for Xbox employees to get their hands on the system and begin providing feedback and testing. The timing would indicate to me that rumors of upcoming showcases in early May are likely accurate. This is coupled with rumors from our Senior Editor Zac Bowden that Microsoft is gearing up to showcase new Surface hardware in May, as well.
A new wireless headset
In addition to Lockhart potentially moving out of the lab into the homes of internal Microsoft testers, we've heard Team Xbox is building a replacement for its 2014 Xbox Stereo Headset. If our sourcing on this is accurate, the new headset will be fully wireless, compatible with Xbox, PC, and mobile devices, presumably via separate Bluetooth and Xbox Wireless signals.
It could be Xbox's answer to the Surface Headphones, albeit with some of the more "premium" features stripped out. Given that the previous 2014 Xbox Stereo Headset was very much an entry-level affair, this may also be designed with entry-level users in mind, allowing for third-parties to target the more premium-end with the likes of the SteelSeries Arctis 9X and the Astro A50. It could also go the other way entirely, offering something at the premium-end as an "aspirational" product similar to the rest of the Surface product line.
What about Microsoft's Xbox events in this spring?
Whether Xbox Lockhart will break cover in May is unknown, but based on its imminent take-home status and the oddly coincidental (and wholly separately sourced) timing of the Surface rumors suggest an early May reveal could be on the money. With E3 2020 canceled, Microsoft perhaps has a bit more leeway in terms of what it can do with regards to marketing and its upcoming events, spreading them across a wider range of dates. A couple of Xbox YouTubers with good track records for accurate information have suggested a May event, as well, to coincide with the previously-announced digital showcases Microsoft mentioned would replace its E3 showing in June.
We've heard Microsoft may also be gearing up to show off a few upcoming games as part of its May press releases. Long-standing rumors of a Fable reboot under Playground Games make for an obvious candidate, but we've also barely seen anything about Halo Infinite, which is supposedly launching later this year presuming "work from home" delays are avoided.
Whether this will be a full-blown showcase event like Inside Xbox, a trailer reveal as we saw for Hellblade II, or a third-party deep dive with the expertise of outlets like Digital Foundry is completely unknown. But as they say, there's typically no smoke without fire.
Monkey Man wrote:Lockhart concept from Reddit -
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Peter Crisp wrote:Sometimes I'd really like to see a review of something where they just say "Yeah, it's ok. Not terrible and worth an upgrade I suppose!" as that would be a totally realistic British review.
Photek wrote:Peter Crisp wrote:Sometimes I'd really like to see a review of something where they just say "Yeah, it's ok. Not terrible and worth an upgrade I suppose!" as that would be a totally realistic British review.
The Alchemist Penguin wrote:Monkey Man wrote:Lockhart concept from Reddit -
This design would really take the "next gen is <?> GameCubes taped together" meme to its logical conclusion.
Peter Crisp wrote:Photek wrote:Peter Crisp wrote:Sometimes I'd really like to see a review of something where they just say "Yeah, it's ok. Not terrible and worth an upgrade I suppose!" as that would be a totally realistic British review.
What?
The response "Yea, it's ok" is a pretty good review if you ask me.
Photek wrote:I realise this is a British forum and that’s fine but you in particular form most of your posts from this kind of ‘British exceptionalism’, you don’t realise it but you post like this a lot, I liken it to republicans going on about freedom (though they are far worse). I gather most members here don’t mind it and I don’t either... it’s just a bit cringe but that’s just imo.
Samuel_1 wrote:The Alchemist Penguin wrote:Monkey Man wrote:Lockhart concept from Reddit -
This design would really take the "next gen is <?> GameCubes taped together" meme to its logical conclusion.
I think the design works better in this smaller form, like it.
