Xbox Game Studios has a record year heading into console launch

Microsoft said its Xbox Game Studios has so far enjoyed a record year in terms of the number of games it has launched ahead of the November debut of the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles.

Games marketing general manager Aaron Greenberg said in a blog today that Microsoft’s internal game studios have launched 15 games so far this year, 10 of which are brand-new titles. This count will get even better once the company integrates ZeniMax’s Bethesda Game Studios, which Microsoft acquired for $7.5 billion. Including Bethesda, Microsoft has 23 game studios now, with close to 5,000 developers, compared to 15 studios before the acquisition. Even before Bethesda, Microsoft was on a buying spree, snapping up many of those studios over the past few years.