Microsoft has quite the year with so much perhaps not going quite according to how head of Microsoft Gaming Phil Spencer as hoped. Rumours have been running rampant all through the year regarding Microsoft taking their games to competing platforms, mostly PlayStation 5, which have only been made worse by the terrible communication from the team at Xbox and Microsoft itself.
Now Microsoft has seen two of its holiday releases launch with severe criticism over being unplayable. Both Flight Simulator 2024 and Stalker 2 launched just one day apart on Xbox Series X and S as well as PC yet all the news about the two games has been fairly negative.
Stalker 2 is only a three month timed exclusive, so the fact it has launched in such a poor state, despite the two huge patches prior to launch, does nothing to make the Xbox brand look like a worthwhile investment over the likes of PlayStation 5 or Nintendo Switch.
Flight Simulator 2024 has seen a large amount of players unable to merely load into the game due to server issues. Remember that Flight Simulator games require the use of the cloud to load into the world in great detail as you fly over it, making this mess even the more disastrous. It isn’t as if the previous Flight Simulator experienced such issues on launch, so there are a lot of questions that need answering around this particular launch.
More so, there’s questions that need addressing about Xbox as a whole this past year, and in fact generation as a whole.
We hope that both Stalker 2 and Flight Simulator 2024 get the patches they both require soon and that we don’t see anything similar with the next big game from Microsoft, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
