According to Phil Spencer, there will be no surprise revival of Guitar Hero or any other IP.
After a 21-month ordeal, Microsoft finally acquired Activision Blizzard, which brought with it franchises like Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Skylanders, Spyro, Diablo, Starcraft, Candy Crush and more. Thanks to this, titles that haven’t been out for a long time could also get remakes/sequels, like Singularity, Hexen, and Prototype, but this won’t happen overnight, and they won’t be included in Game Pass tomorrow either.
Phil Spencer, head of gaming at Microsoft, therefore urges players advocating the return of the classics and the expansion of Game Pass to be patient, while at the same time also emphasizing the scale of potential and number of opportunities present in the portfolio. they have.
It’s Spencer On the official Xbox Podcast We talked about what happens behind the scenes now: going around Activision Blizzard teams to meet them in person and discuss what the studios want to work on. According to him, if any team decides that they want to put out an old series again, he will support them, but he will not force anyone to revive a classic series that they do not care about: because the best result is achieved when the specific studio is achieved. He works passionately on the project. Spencer clearly has a list of things she wants to get back to, and probably every studio has one too.
The head of Xbox believes that with the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, their entire portfolio has become inspiring, but terrifying at the same time, and considers it important to be good custodians of the content they touch, since so many people are connected to it, regardless of age and platform. That’s why you want to make sure that when they come back to something, it’s with a fully motivated development team, and not just to make money. Game Pass can be helpful in bringing back and dusting off classic games, just as Pentiment has helped.
Spencer hasn’t talked about specific plans yet, but he has talked about the possibilities, for example, with the service, they can bring back games that have been an important part of gaming history to people, and they can return to franchises that deserve a little love, but don’t necessarily require something more intense. (Maybe he was thinking of it, like the remaster of Quake II that was included recently). Spencer has previously mentioned cult titles that have a special place in her heart, such as Hexen and MechAssault, while another Xbox boss, Sarah Bond, would be happy to see an expansion to the Starcraft series.
