Xbox boss expresses “disappointment” with response to Redfall, pledges to continue work on the game

Microsoft’s head of gaming, Phil Spencer, has weighed in on the crucial and participant response to Redfall.

Talking with Kinda Humorous Video games, Spencer lamented disappointing the Xbox group, stating Xbox Video games Studios will “revisit” its course of.

“There’s nothing that is harder for me than disappointing the Xbox group,” mentioned Spencer. “To look at the group lose confidence and be disenchanted, I am disenchanted. I am upset with myself. We’ll revisit our course of.”

Spencer went on to say the workforce at Arkane Austin plans to proceed engaged on the sport and that regardless of the lower than stellar crucial response, he is not going to cease builders from being prepared to take dangers sooner or later.

“The crucial response was not what we needed, however one factor I am not going do is push towards artistic aspiration. We will proceed to work on the sport.

“We have proven a dedication to video games like Sea of Thieves, and Grounded, to proceed to go and construct video games. However I additionally know these video games are $70, and I take full duty for launching a recreation that must be nice.”

Within the podcast, Spencer additionally mentions the “punch within the chin” he obtained over launching Redfall with solely High quality Mode on Xbox consoles, capping the sport at 30FPS as an alternative of the promised 60FPS. At the moment, the sport on Xbox Collection X is capped at 4K with 30FPS, whereas Xbox Collection S customers are capped at 1440p with 30FPS.

That mentioned, Bethesda promised 60FPS Efficiency Mode might be added by way of a future recreation replace.