Xbox Did ‘A Better Job’ With Assisting Starfield Development Than Redfall
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has offered some kind of reassurance to fans that Starfield will hopefully launch in a better state than this week’s Xbox console exclusive, Redfall, claiming that the publisher “did a better job” in terms of assisting on development. Discussing the development of Redfall on a new episode of the Kinda Funny Xcast , Spencer explained how acquisition of a studio that is mid-way through development of a game - as it did with both Bethesda Game Studios and Arkane Austin, working on Starfield and Redfall respectively - can be a challenge, and that Xbox needs to improve its process. “When we acquire studios, there are games that are in development, and then there’s things that are either really early in development or not even conceived yet. I think we need to improve in engaging with games that are mid-way through production when they become part of Xbox,” he said. “We didn’t do a good job early on in engaging Arkane Austin to really help them understand what it ...