Xbox Game Studios Boss Matt Booty Suggests Xbox Wants to Make More PlayStation-style blockbuster games

[Herbert]

I think these type of blockbuster style experiences are on the way. They just haven't quite hit yet. In terms of sales Halo has always been a heavy hitter for Xbox. But that's sort of been the only consistent iconic character.

Now we have Perfect Dark in development, I imagine that game is going to do extremely well. I think games like Avowed and Starfield will be mega hits as well but those games are RPG heavy. They are most likely going to let the player create and name their character. Games like Sony's: God of War, The Last of Us, Horizon Forbidden west and even Uncharted are all big huge games but they also are extremely story driven and  focus on creating a world that revolves around a very established character. That's why we are starting to movies and TV series announcements for those IPs because Sony has done the work.

I would not be surprised in the least if somewhere down the line we get a Johanna Dark Netflix series. It has all the elements  of what's trending at this time. But at the end of the day, what's important is delivering fun games. And Xbox has a large number of first party games in development right now. You couldn't say that last generation. And out of those games already announced I suspect we'll see multiple big blockbuster style games.