Matt Booty, head of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios, has said that his team is aiming to release a first-party Xbox game about every three months.

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"I think about like how long you spend with a game and just sort of the cadence of discovery there," Booty explained. "So if you can do a game every three months, and if a game takes somewhere between two years and four years, I mean, just think about things that have come out recently, you know, things like Red Dead and God of War need to be getting into five, six years. Right? But let's just say for the sorts of studios, like a Ninja theory or a double fine that two, three years starts to be the cadence, right?



"So, then if you've got a game a quarter and you're taking two to three years." Booty continued. "You can kind of back into the math and say, well wow, you probably need somewhere between 10 and 12 studios. But... making games is not yet a perfect science, right? There's no creative endeavor that is. So there's going to be things that take longer. There's going to be some things that we start and say, hey, great idea, but it just isn't, you know, the Jello doesn't want to set. Right. Um, and so I think we need some, some buffer in there, right? So the first, that's kind of my basic answers. We'd love to be feeding a high quality game into game pass about every three months."

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Speaking to IGN's Ryan McCaffrey, Booty was asked if there was any goal or cadence at which Microsoft wished to release its first-party games.Booty responded that Xbox Game Pass is "the main driver" for a release schedule as Microsoft wants to ensure there is a "steady stream of games" coming into the subscription service for both PC and console.For Booty and Microsoft, "every three months feels about right."Microsoft Game Studios currently has 14 studios, including the recently acquired Double Fine Productions and its upcoming game Psychonauts 2. As for the other games that will eventually be part of this potential three month release strategy, Xbox's E3 2019 press conference gave us a bunch of new details on upcoming first-party titles. 343 Industries' Halo Infinite was confirmed to be a launch title for Xbox's next-gen console, Project Scarlett, with a release date of Holiday 2020. The Coalition's Gears 5 got a release date of September 10, 2019, alongside a brand-new Escape co-op mode. Ninja Theory announced Bleeding Edge, a 4v4 third-person melee combat game that will have a technical alpha on June 27, 2019.For everything else Xbox Project Scarlett , be sure to check out our roundup of of release date information, development, rumors, and so much more. For more on IGN's E3 coverage, stay tuned to IGN's E3 2019 hub . Be sure to also check out the list of confirmed E3 2019 games and the list of games that won't be at E3 2019 Reporting by IGN's Ryan McCaffrey.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who wouldn't mind playing a new Xbox first-party game every three months. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.