Xbox head Phil Spencer acknowledges poor ‘Redfall’ reception: “We let a lot of people down this week”
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- 05 May 2023
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Xbox Game Studios CEO Phil Spencer has admitted he is “disappointed” with this week’s launch of first-person shooter Redfall, which has been received poorly by fans and critics.
Since launching on Tuesday (May 2), Redfall holds a “mostly negative” player review rating on Steam, while NME rated Redfall two stars in our own review.
Reviews aggregate Metacritic currently lists the game’s score as sitting between 58 per cent and 62 per cent depending on the platform, with players criticising poor AI, an empty open world, and performance issues.
Speaking to Kinda Funny Games (transcribed by VGC), Phil Spencer has admitted he is “upset” with the poor reception, and explained that this week’s reviews have been much lower than ones conducted internally.
“We do mock reviews for every game that we launch, and this is double digits lower than where we thought we would be with this game,” shared Spencer. “That’s one of the disappointing things: we would never strive to launch a game that we thought was going to review in the low 60s — it’s not part of our goals.” Read More..
