Microsoft may be forced to delay some Xbox One fall 2015 releases due to the window being ‘too crowded’

[Mr.Karizmatic]

 

The lineup of Xbox One titles set to launch in fall 2015 is so crowded that Microsoft may be forced to delay some titles to early 2016, according to head of Xbox Phil Spencer.

 

“Looking at production schedules and how things are lining up, next fall is just crazy,” Spencer said on the latest Major Nelson podcast. “I mean, this fall from a 1st-party/3rd-party standpoint is great. “Next fall, I don’t… Honestly it’s not hype at all, I honestly don’t know that we can actually ship all the stuff that thinks it’s trying to ship next fall.

 

“It just might be too crowded and we might purposely try to move some things out to spread it. You have to [give them some breathing room], you have to do that.”

 

The actual lineup is still a mystery at the moment, but we do know that Halo 5: Guardians and Rise of the Tomb Raider are both set for fall 2015 releases. Other titles that could fall into that window include Quantum Break, Scalebound, and Crackdown.

 

Spencer went on to say how February, March, and May have all previously proven to be good release windows, citing Red Dead Redemption and the God of War series as examples.

 

“It’s nice as an industry that we don’t all have to get on top of each [other], just clobber ourselves and compete against one other, because there are enough hours in the year for a gamer to go play great games, but people want to play the things that are current,” he said.

 

“And I think as publishers and first-parties have success at multiple points of the year it’s just a good thing for us,” he added. “Because having three/four great games ship all in the same week at the end of October, while maybe on some forecast somewhere it feels like that’s the right thing to do, just as an industry I think it’s much more healthy if we have more beats throughout the year where people can ship great games.”

[Satanek]

[CruelKind]

Wouldn't it be smart for Microsoft to turn the Xbox into a PC? Certainly they could do it, and boom you have a multi-platform gaming device.