Games Inbox: Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase predictions, Overwatch 2 doubts, and It Takes Two sale

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Reveal backlog Very encouraging to see Microsoft announce their ‘E3’ plans so early, well before Sony or Nintendo. With the news about improved console sales I think they know that they’re now a true contender and that they’re setting the agenda in a lot of ways, forcing Sony to create a Game Pass equivalent, experiment with streaming, and take backwards compatibility seriously.

I’m not saying this as a fanboy but as someone that usually buys both company’s consoles and believes that gamers are served best when the two are competing equally. Microsoft still have to show they can put out consistent high quality first party games though. Forza Horizon 5 was great but very formulaic, while Halo Infinite only just fit the bill and is now looking worse in retrospect with the lack of support.

The one problem on the horizon that Microsoft has though is managing all its new studios. It already seems to be having trouble with Perfect Dark, so I wouldn’t expect to see that at E3, and Fable is taking a peculiarly long time to be revealed.

If I was making my predictions for the event though I would guess that Fable will be the centrepiece along with Starfield and maybe one major surprise (possibly Gears Of War 6). I wouldn’t imagine too many new games though as Xbox has so many announced at the moment, that we’ve seen nothing of, that it’s kind of pointless.

The Outer Worlds 2 was meant to be out this year at one point and yet we still haven’t seen anything, ditto Hellblade 2 and Redfall. We haven’t seen anything on Avowed or the Indiana Jones