XSN 2004 Series Canned

[Jonbo298]

"We need to be making great games, and the marketplace told us that we're just not at that level."

Those were the words from Kevin Browne, XSN Sports Studio Manager, when explaining the reasons behind Microsoft's decision to cancel its 2004 lineup of XSN Sports titles.

RalliSport Challenge 2 is still scheduled to ship in April, but after that, don't expect to see another XSN Sports game until 2005, and possibly not until the Xbox 2.

http://sports.ign.com/articles/502/502713p1.html

Thats the basic gist of it. The entire thing has an interview with Kevin Browne on the exact reasons. Basically, it looks like MS thought this years sports line up basically was gonna "suck" (my words, but its true from what I read) and they want to take the time to redefine the XSN series.

[jeepnut]

http://sports.ign.com/articles/502/502713p1.html

Thats the basic gist of it. The entire thing has an interview with Kevin Browne on the exact reasons. Basically, it looks like MS thought this years sports line up basically was gonna "suck" (my words, but its true from what I read) and they want to take the time to redefine the XSN series.

Personally, I'm impressed. It takes a lot of guts to admit something like this to the public. I'm even more impressed that enough faith was shown in the developement team to let them take the time to get it right. That's a lot of potential money they could have made even if the games were sub-par.

[Stonecutter]

989 sports take note.


Kudos to microsoft.

[Joeiss]

Yeah, 989 is horrible...

And I agree, good for MS to admit that.

[Typhoid]

989 needs to put more effort in their sports games, because i think that EA is going to kill them in the long run.