It’s been recent news that Crackdown 3 has been pushed past a 2016 release, and that’s put a few fans worried about the series’s next sequel. However, we’ve heard from Microsoft about why the date’s been pushed back. Microsoft Studios general manager Shannon Loftis recently spoke to Game Informer about the delay. “Development has been going incredibly well. I’ve actually been playing a ton of it,” she stated. “To be honest, because we obviously have this Crackdown Online mode and then we also have the traditional Crackdown campaign, which has multiplayer online. But we want to launch our online beta so that it’s not too far in advance of the complete campaign. It’s actually the campaign that we’re doubling down on now.”