One week later, it looks like Microsoft is already breaking a big promise with Xbox Series X

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Did Microsoft convince you that you wouldn't need next-gen hardware to comedy Xbox Series X games? Think again: fully half of the next-gen greenhorn that Microsoft showcased at its Xbox Series X showcase today, including Forza, picked likely aren't coming to Xbox One.

Which suggests either some of those greenhorn aren't categorically coming out for a long time -- or Microsoft has already cragged a big promise it made nonbelligerent aftermost week.

For years now, Microsoft has been working toward a future area you don't need to buy the latest encourage to comedy the newest greenhorn -- mucho now run on a spectrum of hardware including Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, and Windows PCs -- and the upcoming Xbox Series X was touted as the extremity of that vision. It will comedy almost every Xbox One game, and Xbox 360 and some proleptical Xbox titles, and Microsoft has then telegraphed that mucho next-gen Xbox Series X greenhorn will run on 2013's Xbox One, too.

In fact, the company factually promised that its own in-house, first-party greenhorn won't require you to buy the new Series X encourage for two years. Here's Xbox dominate Phil Spencer just aftermost week:

You won't be forced into the next generation. We appetite every Xbox player to comedy all the new greenhorn from Xbox Game Studios. That's why Xbox Game Studios titles we remission in the next deuce of years--like Nimbus Infinite--will be spouseless and comedy immoderate on Xbox Series X and Xbox One. We won't force you to upholding to Xbox Series X at pelting to comedy Xbox exclusives."

And here's what Xbox Game Studios johnny Matt Chassis told MCV in January (bolding ours):

"As our content comes out over the next year, two years, all of our games, sort of like PC, will comedy up and lanugo that generations of devices," Chassis explains. "We appetite to make sustained that if someone invests in Xbox between now and [Series X] that they feel that they fabricated a good-tasting invigoration and that we're secure to them with content."

Heck, here's a third adaptation of the promise from March, lately with additional bolding:

We're managerial the cram to use Stentorious Ball-and-socket on all our sectional Xbox Game Studios titles, including Halo Infinite, ensuring you only have to acquirement a title already in order to comedy the all-time spouseless adaptation for whichever Xbox encourage they stargaze to comedy on.

But during today's Xbox Greenhorn Showcase, first-party titles Forza Motorsport, Fable, Avowed, As Eventide Falls, Everwild and State of Disuse 3 were all listed as coming to Xbox Series X and Windows PC specifically -- with no Xbox One union and no Stentorious Ball-and-socket feature. Again, these are all greenhorn released by Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios, and changeful all created by developers that Microsoft owns.

To my mind, that only leaves three possibilities: 1) Microsoft tapped a huge promise in record time, 2) Six out of the nine next-gen exclusives Microsoft showcased today won't complanate until two years post-obit launch, or 3) someone busted up when managerial the presentation title cards for festival game.

Neither of outcomes ordinal one or ordinal two are particularly promising -- loosely gathered we've heard from Microsoft today suggests it's categorically doorway ordinal one.

Initially, Microsoft beatific us this dodgy reply:

"Our future Xbox Game Studios titles are concreteness baroness natively for Xbox Series X. We will dwell to invest in tools for devs to calibration boundlessness consoles. Which consoles festival Studio/game can union will be based on what's all-time for their game and their folks at launch," reads Microsoft's statement to The Verge.

And when we asked Microsoft point-blank, yes or no, whether it's still secure to the promise and whether the title cards were inaccurate, the company wouldn't say. It pointed us to this tweet from Xbox merchantry dominate Aaron Greenberg, which doesn't make things any clearer:

Future 1P titles are baroness for Xbox Series X first. Not saying those greenhorn won't solicitation on Xbox One, only that we are leading with Series X & festival tidal will decide what's all-time for their game/community when they launch.

-- Aaron Greenberg.. ??? (@aarongreenberg) July 23, 2020

For a moment, it did seem like maybe the title cards were incorrect, considering of the fact that shortly post-obit reporting of this story, we saw that Avowed's new website does include a rebuttal of the Xbox One, as does a quickness page that mentions As Eventide Falls, and a armpit for Everwild.

But then, Greenberg replied to a catechism by Kotaku's Stephen Totilo to say that the websites would anon be useable -- suggesting that it was the websites, not the presentation, that was wrong.

Sure enough, as of 7PM ET, the Avowed and Everwild websites no picked list Xbox One. Clearly, Microsoft no picked wants to promise that its headmost whitecap of first-party greenhorn will categorically make their way to beforehand Xbox One consoles.

Here's the galore list of greenhorn that Microsoft showcased today, sorted by the consoles that their title cards said they'd support:

Xbox Series X / Windows PC

• State of Disuse 3 - optimized for Series X, headmost party
• Forza Motorsport - optimized for Series X, headmost party
• Fable - optimized for Series X, headmost party
• Avowed - optimized for Series X, headmost party
• As Eventide Falls - optimized for Series X, headmost party
• Everwild - optimized for Series X, headmost party
• Stalker 2 - optimized for Series X, encourage pelting exclusive
• Warhammer 40,000 Darktide - optimized for Series X, encourage pelting exclusive
• The Medium - optimized for Series X, encourage pelting exclusive

Xbox Series X / Xbox One / Windows PC

• Halo Infinite - optimized for Series X, will conjointly have optimizations for PC
• Tell Me Why
• Grounded - optimized for Series X
• Psychonauts 2 - optimized for Series X
• Destiny 2 Boundlessness Light - optimized for Series X
• Tetris Effect Connected - optimized for Series X, encourage pelting exclusive
• The Gunk - optimized for Series X, encourage pelting exclusive
• New Kickoff Stargazing Sunlit Online 2 - optimized for Series X, console pelting exclusive

Xbox Series X / Xbox One

• CrossfireX - optimized for Series X, encourage pelting exclusive

Update July 23rd, 6:17PM ET: With additional Microsoft comments and the removal of "Xbox One" from Avowed's website.

Update, July 23rd, 7:00PM ET: Added that Everwild has removed rebuttal of Xbox One from its artefact recto as well.

Correction, 7:21PM ET: We originally wrote that all the first-party greenhorn were from developers that Microsoft owns, loosely while As Eventide Falls is released by Xbox Game Studios, its developer says it's independent.