Xbox brag Phil Spencer has admitted it's been excessively agelong since a large archetypal enactment exclusive crippled landed connected the Xbox Series X and S.

Speaking to Same Brain connected YouTube, Spencer said helium understands wherefore players are frustrated astatine the deficiency of large Xbox-only games - with past year's Halo Infinite arguably being the astir recent - but noted that 2023 is acceptable to beryllium a large twelvemonth for the company.

"One happening we've decidedly heard large and wide is that it's been excessively agelong since we've shipped what radical would accidental is simply a large archetypal enactment game," Spencer said. "We could person our excuses connected Covid and different things, but successful the extremity I cognize radical put successful our level and they privation to person large games."

He continued: "We're excited astir 2023. We've talked astir games that are coming, and those games are tracking well. Getting our archetypal existent Xbox archetypal enactment games retired of Bethesda, having them vessel Redfall and Starfield, volition beryllium a batch of fun."

Forza Motorsport 8 is besides expected to beryllium released successful outpouring 2023, adding to Xbox's line-up for the twelvemonth and returning to the simulator-based bid for the archetypal clip since 2017.

The existent deficiency of archetypal enactment games, however, was noted successful peculiar aft the hold of the aforementioned Starfield - the monolithic abstraction RPG from the workplace down Skyrim and Fallout - which was pushed backmost alongside Arkane's unfastened satellite shooter Redfall.

While Xbox does person immoderate console exclusives this vacation period, specified arsenic the foul-mouthed talking limb shooter High connected Life, it's possibly missing a blockbuster rubric to vie with the likes of PlayStation's God of War: Ragnarok and Nintendo's Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.