Microsoft acquired the classic fighting franchise with its purchase of Rare in 2002.
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The series’ next mainline entry, Halo Infinite, was originally planned to launch alongside Xbox Series X this holiday, however, it has now been delayed to 2021. Microsoft’s flagship franchise has been synonymous with the Xbox brand since Combat Evolved launched alongside the original console in 2001. *Halo Wars 2, the franchise's second RTS spinoff, was released in 2017. The franchise will continue with State of Decay 3, which was recently announced for Xbox Series X. Undead Labs’ work on State of Decay 2 didn’t stop with its release in 2018 in 2020 the studio released State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition, a massive overhaul that added a host of new content, graphical improvements, additional music, bug fixes, and quality-of-life updates. The status of Playground’s Forza Horizon series, which has been gaining sales and critical acclaim with each new entry, is unknown, but it seems highly likely to continue. An in-engine trailer was shown at Microsoft’s July showcase, though the racer is still in “early development” at Turn 10 Studios with no release window in place. *Forza Street, a free-to-play mobile spinoff, was released more recently.Ī rebooted Forza Motorsport is in development for Xbox Series X. The future of the cult-favorite franchise is likely in jeopardy after the series’ latest was released to little fanfare and poor critical reception (it holds a 60 on Metacritic our review scored it a 5). Microsoft released Crackdown 3 in early 2019 after years of troubled development. However, whatever comes next will be made without Rod Fergusson, the former head of Microsoft’s Gears-focused studio The Coalition Fergusson joined Blizzard earlier this year to oversee Diablo. *Since the release of Gears 5, Microsoft has released the excellent strategy spinoff Gears Tactics.Ĭonsidering its importance to the Xbox portfolio - Gears is likely Microsoft’s most recognizable franchise next to Halo, and the company bought the IP outright in 2014 - future entries are a given. Moon Studios’ next project is an action-RPG that will be published by Private Division, though it’s also working on an Xbox Series X version of Will of the Wisps with support for 120fps.
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In a Reddit AMA, Ori lead designer Chris McEntee said the first two games “told the story that wanted to tell,” though they “left the door cracked open a bit for a potential continuation.” Latest: Ori and the Will of the Wisps (March 2020)ĭespite being Microsoft’s youngest franchise at five years old, Ori (alongside Forza Horizon) has been Xbox’s most celebrated IP this generation the console versions of Blind Forest and Will of the Wisps hold an 88 and 90 on Metacritic, respectively. The list doesn’t include series from newly acquired studios - Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity, inXile’s Wasteland, etc.- since Microsoft had no part in the management of those franchises to date.) release dates and are recorded as of August 2020. (This list measures the time between original, mainline releases only - if a spinoff or remake was released more recently it's noted with an asterisk (*). Today, however, we’re looking at the past and present output of Microsoft’s major video game franchises, tracking how long it’s been between original releases in the biggest Xbox series. With its bolstered portfolio of studios, the first-party future of Xbox still looks promising. First-party developers were in the spotlight, with big reveals from Obsidian and Playground in the forms of Avowed and Fable, respectively, and the first-ever Halo Infinite gameplay from 343 (which has now been delayed to 2021). The company recently showed off a selection of fruits from this labor during its Xbox Series X showcase. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer acknowledged as much in 2017, shortly before the company began announcing a series of major studio acquisitions, bringing the likes of Obsidian, Double Fine, and Ninja Theory, among others, under its Xbox Game Studios umbrella.
Microsoft has long struggled with a perceived first-party problem.
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