Phil Spencer is going to Japan, but before boarding the flight, he had a few more words for the fans about competition and portable gaming.
Fallout 76 players have dropped the big one on Phil Spencer in response to Xbox's closures of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks this week.
He said he treated the Xbox executive like the RPG's final boss
Somewhat fitting, Considering buying Bethesda was a complete selfish purchasing decision by himself just because he is a big Fallout fan he wanted to own the toy. Well quite frankly Microsoft should look at that and say you put your personal tastes in front of the business and it has backfired.
While on stage with Dina Bass at The Bloomberg Technology Summit the President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, was asked about the Xbox studio closures of Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios
Of course she did. She's part of the problem and will just tow the company line.
Bloomberg’s Dina Bass could barely read her scripted question without looking at her notes, whilst Sarah Bond who WAS expecting the question spoke without saying anything of substance or answering the question in any meaningful way. Clearly she’s had the same expert PR training as Phil, but this avoidance was disrespectful. In time the short-sighted decision to shut down Tango Gameworks will be seen as of the most notorious examples why Phil Spencer messed up his tenure in charge of Xbox. That’s a fully built out talented team that could’ve been put to work on any project.
Additionally, Phil Spencer should not be using Sarah Bond as a patsy for his mistakes- he should be answering that question.
I think you are all really overselling Tangos value. Hi-Fi rush was a lot of fun. Ghostwire was incredibly dull. Evil within 1 and 2 were just okay.
Evil within 2 was incredibly under rated. I thought that game was surprisingly good
Someone else said it best. I don't think it was a Phil decision. It was most likely a Satya decision. I think Microsoft is done giving out free money to Xbox.
people please boycott Activision Bethesda next release and support Hellblade.
these people mus understand that they cannot treat their fans and employees that way.
scumbags.
She's playing her role. There's absolutely nothing any of them can say other than the truth, this is about profit margins and not quality, so they just don't answer anything and wait for gamers to forget.
I always wondered why xbox had multiple leaders with similar titles like Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond, like, how many heads do you actually need?
Seems to me it would be more cost efficient to cut 2 of them instead of all those studios.
Frankly, I suspect she is the most competent of them. I don't mean that I like her more, I mean that she's the best at articulating herself and giving the talking points MS wants to give. The others are starting to sound more like her than her sounding like any of them.
Are any of these people "responsible" for what's happening? No. This reeks of Nadella. But that being said, I don't see any of the Xbox heads stepping down in protest.
"Don't shoot the messenger", sure, but at the same time, the messengers don't seem to take umbrage with the message. Not enough to remove themselves from it, anyway.
Dude, 100%, forgot Major Nelson and Aaron Greenberg, like what is the point for all these suits? They have more C-level executives than games released in a generation.
This is just so they can all pass along the hot potato one at a time and in between all of them can say a lot without actually saying anything, misinformation at its finest.
The closest the Xbox division of Microsoft came to developing a handheld was the Zune and that turned out to be a flop. Good luck even trying to find anybody who even remembers the Zune.
Safe to say they most likely would've flopped even harder with a dedicated handheld device.
"Gaming Is Not a Race Between Two Consoles" "Unless we're the ones winning then you can be sure it's a race and we'll talk about how we're the ones winning all the freaking time like last gen and that time we won a few months this gen."
This guy is so two faced it's sickening
Oh how the tune changes when you're in second place!!! Last generation that was all it was about! Microsoft used taglines like "The Best place to play". Every month it was about outselling the PS3 on NPD even though PS3 had the world on lockdown.
But it's not about competition? Phil why is it that certain fanatics of your fanbase are even now foaming at the mouth with just the mention of the word "Scorpio"!? Because you have done nothing but tout how it will the world's most powerful console. Isn't that promoting competition?
Just because Microsoft wasn't able to make a feasible handheld, it didn't stop them from making the Zune. Which was in fact a handheld.
Now watch the ones I mentioned above jump to defend what has come from the proverbial horse's mouth.....
But Phil Spencer has been quoted saying "At some level, it is a competition, and I've said before I want to win... I'm not going to duck that. I want to win. I want to win this generation, but I want to win more than I want the other guy to lose."
https://www.gamespot.com/am...
Now "it's not a race?" What happened to "I'm not going to duck that?" What happened to wanting to win this generation?
Dear lord this guy is flip flopping on all his statements. It's stuff like this that really makes it hard to take him seriously and it makes him look like even more of a corporate shill.
the mascot speaks... again...