Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox division, confirms that although hardware production is going as planned, with the games he has more doubts.
In an interview for CNBC business magazine, Phil Spencer, the head of the Xbox division, has returned to elaborate on how the coronavirus might affect the launch of Xbox Series X. In Spencer's words, although there is a certain impact, “the teams They are doing a great job and are still keeping the hardware on track. In general, we are where we thought we were going to be. ” However, the same does not happen with games, with which there is the option of delaying and extending deadlines. "I'd say the biggest unknown is game production, to be honest," said Spencer.
"The production of a game is a large-scale activity, you have hundreds of people who must come together to share their progress and continue development." However, and due to the pandemic, most developers have to work from home and, among other things, share with their fellow gigabytes and gigabytes of files through the connection they have, which can be everything a challenge. "We are learning day by day," admits Phil in the interview. "I am still optimistic about it, but I also need to make it clear that the safety and health of the teams is paramount, and I will not push them if things are not done on time."
There have already been some delays
Some statements in line with those he had a few weeks ago for IGN, when he assured that "things are not being easy" and that he felt how the deadlines were being stretched. The coronavirus has already forced Microsoft to delay some of its releases, such as Wasteland 3 and Minecraft Dungeons. In any case, we hardly know a few names that will make up the Xbox Series X output catalog, which we will begin to know members from May 7, with the first Inside Xbox focused on the console. Surely from then on, the teams will begin to share the state of their respective developments and the deadlines set due to the coronavirus.
