The one more thing was very weird though. It screamed of a last-minute adjustment. If I recall correctly, it was just a CG trailer, with no gameplay. For a new IP. That's not typically how the "one more thing" trailers go; it's almost always an already existing IP isn't it?I don't believe this for a second, this game was their "one more thing" a couple years ago, it's been consistently positioned as a key part of MS' lineup, it was marketed heavily, it was a big part of their directs in 2022 and 2023, and Satya Nadella explicitly mentioned in this game in his conference call a week ago. I find it hard to believe that they invested all this space in a game they did not believe in, I mean this is more than Sony gave Days Gone lmao.
I'm not saying the claim here is true, but that Redfall debut seemed very weird to me at the time. I suspect they were initially going to show a game that simply wasn't ready to be shown, and they had nothing else for the end, so they went with Redfall for some reason.