Microsoft doesn’t seem the least bit deterred by the wily charms of one Corona-chan. Her deadly kisses and crippling seduction will have no abeyance on the Xbox Series X‘s destiny to reach holiday shoppers during the late second half of 2020.
According to GameSpot, after the company mentioned several times in their information dump on the official Xbox website that the console was scheduled to release in holiday, 2020, they decided to follow-up to ensure that the release wasn’t affected due to the COVID-19 impacting manufacturing and supply chains in China. The website noted…
“The blog post mentioned two times that the Xbox Series X is still on schedule to release this holiday. GameSpot followed up with Microsoft to ask if the company anticipated significant supply chain issues for the system, but the company declined to comment.”
Now this doesn’t mean that the release is set in stone.
More than likely Microsoft is keeping with the scheduled roll-out for now, but if supplies are limited or they’re unable to secure ample customers at launch, expect them to pull the plug on the Xbox Series X release and push the release into the first quarter of 2021.
Given the sparse line-up of software for the system and Microsoft’s anemic slate of exclusives during seventh-gen, I would say that they should delay the system into 2021 until they have something worthwhile to share.
Right now there’s nothing noteworthy to talk about for the Xbox Series X except for Halo: Infinite, but given the way 343 Industries has gone with corrupting the franchise with their “diversity” propaganda, I wouldn’t hold out much hope for Halo: Infinite being a quality-made title.
We also know that Hellblade II is on the docket, but other than being a showcase for the Unreal Engine 4’s ability to make use of dynamic performance capture courtesy of 3Lateral and Cubic Motion, I wouldn’t put much stock in it being a worthwhile game.
Anyway, November is still a long ways off from now and anything can happen between then and now.