Remember those "I believe in Phil Spencer" pins people were adding to their avatars years back?
I remember...
I remember...
[IGN] Phil Spencer and the Battle for Xbox’s Soul
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Yeah. In that sense it's a choice and consequence.
He kept fucking up, which resulted in those above him clamping down, making an already bad situation worse.
I'll offer a few counterpoints for this: The FTC lets a lot of shit slide that they shouldn't, I'm not surprised Microsoft (or Phil in particular) thought it'd be easy to acquire Activision. And while I'm all for blaming Phil for not realizing game sales would be down post-2021, the reality is he's not the only one. Nearly every lay off of the past two years can be narrowed down to "we thought 2020-2021 growth would last forever."
I do think Phil and Xbox both deserve more shit tho.
Definitely not surprised that Ryan McCaffrey is backing Phil with yet another puff piece. 10 years, 10 years in charge Xbox (nearly half of Xbox's existence). Correct me if I'm wrong, but that makes him the longest reigning CEO of Xbox right?
At the end of the day, the thing that matters, that truly matters in getting people to buy into your platform, is making great games, consistently. This is where Nintendo and Sony have succeeded, and Microsoft has failed, miserably. And truly, who is shocked that a management team who could barely manage 12 studios previously (to the point they shuttered half of them) are struggling to manage 35+ studios across Xbox, Bethesda and ABK?
People like McCaffrey keep buying into the same shit, year after year, promise after failed promise. For what reason?
But 2025 will be the year though, am I right?
At the end of the day, the thing that matters, that truly matters in getting people to buy into your platform, is making great games, consistently. This is where Nintendo and Sony have succeeded, and Microsoft has failed, miserably. And truly, who is shocked that a management team who could barely manage 12 studios previously (to the point they shuttered half of them) are struggling to manage 35+ studios across Xbox, Bethesda and ABK?
People like McCaffrey keep buying into the same shit, year after year, promise after failed promise. For what reason?
But 2025 will be the year though, am I right?
Most people would love be paid millions to feel bad. That is the disconnect this thread is about. I am responding just because of that fact nothing against you at all.
I ain't giving IGN clicks, but based on the journalists past reputation, he's deflecting blame on why Xbox us where its at because Phil couldn'f fullfill his vision and evil Nadella and Amy stepped in and caused the closure of the studios, yeah of course
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I think at this point, Phil is at the mercy of the board and shareholders. He can try to protect all the developers XBOX has; however, if the shareholders and board say cut, he has no choice.
but it feels like a death of a thousand cuts going back to pre Xbox One days and poor handling of their first party developers and IP's like Banjo and Kazooie.
Just my opinion though.
In retrospect they were appropriate. He really became Two-Face.
I understand Ryan, after all he got interview set with Phil for next month. He can't burn the bridges lol.
Maybe he shouldn't be doing interviews then. What value does an interview provide to the audience if it's mainly just softballs and PR fluff they've probably already heard in the Showcase.
I was listening to his recent IGN podcast and he's refreshingly candid and critical of Spencer and Co. tbh
There are a lot of people like that. I was like that for way too long.
"Its not his responsibility"
"He didnt want this"
"He couldnt do anything about it"
Nah sorry. He had enough time to prove himself.
It's 22.000 after the layoffs in January 2024.
It should be even less now after the recent studio closures.
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I would like to believe that there is not a single Xbox fanboy/girl who would be willing to literally go to prison for Phil Spencer.
Like come on. I get the cult thing, but it isn't MAGA levels by a long shot.
In a way, actually pretty appropriate when you consider it was based on Harvey Dent's Two Face origin lol
Phil was a good face for the brand and he pushed lots of consumer friendly features. That's it.
He and the rest of Xbox's leadership have been running the quality of Xbox game output into the ground for over a decade.
Halo completely mishandled, destroyed.
Forza Motorsport fell off.
Forza Horizon formula starting to get old.
Gears has run it's course. (I was a huge fan of Gears 1 & 2)
Lots of projects spent years and years and years in development only to be released as deflating disappointments (Crackdown 3, Halo Infinite, newest Forza, Perfect Dark Reboot next in line)
They buy Bethesda and the first game that comes out of the acquisition is fucking Redfall. Letting that happen is enough incompetence on its own to say clean house at Xbox and get some people who know what they're doing.
These people suck at their job and I'm tired of hearing excuses.
He and the rest of Xbox's leadership have been running the quality of Xbox game output into the ground for over a decade.
Halo completely mishandled, destroyed.
Forza Motorsport fell off.
Forza Horizon formula starting to get old.
Gears has run it's course. (I was a huge fan of Gears 1 & 2)
Lots of projects spent years and years and years in development only to be released as deflating disappointments (Crackdown 3, Halo Infinite, newest Forza, Perfect Dark Reboot next in line)
They buy Bethesda and the first game that comes out of the acquisition is fucking Redfall. Letting that happen is enough incompetence on its own to say clean house at Xbox and get some people who know what they're doing.
These people suck at their job and I'm tired of hearing excuses.
That ended in 2018 if I remember right.
I know for a fact it's been 2 years since they stopped adding 360 BC games.
That was my first thought as well lmao. How will they cover the Switch 2 reveal, "The Second Coming of Nintendo Switch Is Upon Us"?
Ironically, xbox died in February.Phil Spencer according to IGN.
It's done, roughly 230 games with the budget of Spider-Man 2. And they have so many IP in the vault even before Activision that will never get used. So much potential, ignored. Wasted.
Phil trying to get out of this mess:Phil Spencer according to IGN.
The title of the article says enough.. Ryan McCaffrey shouldn't run PR for Microsoft.
He does have an interview with Phil Spencer lined up in a few months, and that will be in front of a live audience.. I don't expect any talk about the layoffs.
He does have an interview with Phil Spencer lined up in a few months, and that will be in front of a live audience.. I don't expect any talk about the layoffs.
Have you heard similarly with contacts or is this just reading the tea leaves?
All OG games are enhanced by default (either full 4K or whatever the 4:3 version of 4K is if the game doesn't support widescreen, plus 16x anisotropic), but they have stopped adding new OG games and they have said they have exhausted the back compat games that can be FPS boosted without breaking them.
Fucking hell, I still remember 2013 and all the articles that were just SCREAMING "gamer entitlement" and "Sony will do it too!" when the Xbox One DRM news broke. Then once the consoles launched there was a new cry of "Sony's lead is only temporary. Wait until Titanfall!" And the goalposts kept moving, throughout the entire console gen...
