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[buenoblue]

I used to be a massive Xbox fan and bought them all till the series. OG Xbox and the 360 we're my main platforms. I even thought Phil Spencer was great at first and was gonna turn the Xbox brand around after the disaster if Xbox one.

But I haven't bought a series x and as time goes by Phil is becoming just a douche. Spouting bullshit and never following through. Always promising next year will be the year.

I really think Xbox needs a new head. Some who just wants to focus on making great games and not try and cheat and fool everyone. Just make great games!!! You have the money!!!

 

[ByWatterson]

"At this point," LOL

I used to be a massive Xbox fan and bought them all till the series. OG Xbox and the 360 we're my main platforms. I even thought Phil Spencer was great at first and was gonna turn the Xbox brand around after the disaster if Xbox one.

But I haven't bought a series x and as time goes by Phil is becoming just a douche.

Him aside, I still recommend a Series X just for back-compat classics which are mind-blowing on the X. That plus Age of Empires on console (it's SO good), and I have zero regrets. Great console, just an awful current first-party software lineup.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Yes, he's an idiot. Xbox is being ran horribly as of 2009/10.

The trust fund spending only masks that. Incompetent.

 

[Roberts]

But I haven't bought a series x

Maybe that is the problem. I've had it from day one and it's the best xbox console. There are plenty of great games as well.

 

[Pelta88]

Always promising next year will be the year.

In 2015 this became abundantly clear to me.

 

[alphachino]

 

[Sethbacca]

The typical MS monopolistic buy everything bullshit has me hoping he falls flat on his face. Fuck him.

 

[NickFire]

I don't think so. He's certainly a lightning rod for criticism but that goes with the territory. I actually think he cares about games and is passionate about Xbox, but has his hands tied by a corporate culture that defines success much differently than the average company.

 

[Hudo]

Don't worry, Bobby Kotick will promote himself to head of Xbox at some point.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

Maybe that is the problem. I've had it from day one and it's the best xbox console. There is plenty of great games as well.

Do you think its better then the Xbox 360?

 

[Doom85]

 

[jroc74]

I don't know..maybe?

I also don't give a shit so....

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The way he responded to the leak was....something.

Real plans? Ok, Phil. Sure.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

People have no idea who Phil Spencer is so I vote no.

 

[balls of snow]

He has acquisition madness syndrome when they should have stopped at Bethesda (arguably at Obsidian ) and actually managed what they already have.
I mean, where the fuck was gears in that leak.

 

[ReBurn]

Nope, all good.

 

[Chukhopops]

I don’t know how it’s possible to look at the situation now versus 2014 and think it’s somehow worse but every opinion is valid I suppose.

He has acquisition madness syndrome when they should have stopped at Bethesda (arguably at Obsidian ) and actually managed what they already have.
I mean, where the fuck was gears in that leak.

The leak is about Bethesda games… there were no mention of other studios.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Yes. Setting the Xbox brand's identity to Gamepass and Gamepass "Day One" first party games was a mistake. A gaming sub service in itself is fine, but Phil should have doubled down on the traditional approach while
building up their cloud plans and convinced Nadella to invest all of that ATVI money into building up their current studios.

 

[Unknown?]

"At this point," LOL





Him aside, I still recommend a Series X just for back-compat classics which are mind-blowing on the X. That plus Age of Empires on console (it's SO good), and I have zero regrets. Great console, just an awful current first-party software lineup.

Better get it now because with the discless version you're at the whims of digital store licensing.

 

[Tsaki]

I don't know about that, since he has a cult personality around him. But his replacement is probably Sarah Bond and I doubt she'll be better

 

[truth411]

Maybe that is the problem. I've had it from day one and it's the best xbox console. There is plenty of great games as well.

That was launched without a launch lineup of games and running multiplats worse than PS5? Hard Pass, the first half of 360 was objectively better.

 

[bender]

Game Pass seems to be the brand and not Xbox.

 

[solidus12]

Yes, and I love it.

Because instead of focusing on traditional gaming, you know releasing great games every now and then, he had to try and buy this whole industry to kill the competition.

So he just got owned big time.

 

[Crispy Gamer]

Phil's always sounded like a used car salesman to me and having been in sales I can appreciate a good salesman but he's not even good! The guy has been caught lying way too many times and you can tell when he's embellishing in contrast Peter Moore makes him look like a light weight just imagine him with the full backing of Microsoft, Halo would've NEVER been shown in the state it did under him first party would be a lot better. I don't think people realize how good Phil has it he can literally do whatever he wants and there's just very little creativity in his decisions.

 

[Js562]

I used to be a massive Xbox fan and bought them all till the series. OG Xbox and the 360 we're my main platforms. I even thought Phil Spencer was great at first and was gonna turn the Xbox brand around after the disaster if Xbox one.

But I haven't bought a series x and as time goes by Phil is becoming just a douche. Spouting bullshit and never following through. Always promising next year will be the year.

I really think Xbox needs a new head. Some who just wants to focus on making great games and not try and cheat and fool everyone. Just make great games!!! You have the money!!!

You don't have a series x? If you think he is a douche or not the Xbox is great system. I have all the consoles but play mostly on my Xbox. No problems yet even if their hasn't been a lot of exclusives.

 

[Stare-Bear]

Here's the thing. Nobody in Microsoft cares. Xbox doesn't make a dent in Microsoft's expenditure or revenue, so it just coasts along. Phil only has the job because nobody else wants it.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I don't think it matters who runs Xbox. They're replaceable pawns.

It's the higher-ups that are the problem.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

I mean, forget about general audience. A lot of people outside our hardcore bubble doesn't give a flying f about Phil, Jim or Tom Warren.

But due to that backside shit-talking he's burning the business bridges with established partners like Larian or Nintendo at this point. And that's a problem for an Xbox brand that will hurt quite a lot in a long run.

 

[Neff]

As head of a brand which has steadily gone nowhere for the last ten years, I'd say he's not doing great.

 

[twilo99]

Xbox would’ve been gone a long time ago if it wasn’t for the Phil guy

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Well he certainly took the phrase ‘you’ve got to spend money to make money’ and ran at speed with it.

 

[Sanepar]

He is not a isolate problem. He is part of the problem. Most of xbox executives are delusional and have a fanboy mind.

 

[wvnative]

I honestly think it's more Microsoft company culture as a whole rather than Phil himself, the current business model presumably came about as a last ditch effort to not get xbox shut down. I don't know how much freedom the guy actually has.

 

[Thyuda]

I don't know, it's standard Microsoft behaviour, not even Xbox, and Microsoft is a trillion dollar company... So I really don't know.

 

[Negotiator101]

Phil Spencer living rent free at Gaf

 

[Del_X]

Game Pass is a good value and I don't give a shit about a "brand"

It's like caring if the steam brand turns to shit or whatever. There is nothing that makes me watery-eyed thinking about my time with Xbox, PlayStation, or whatever plastic heap of shit my games run from.

 

[Negotiator101]

I honestly think it's more Microsoft company culture as a whole rather than Phil himself, the current business model presumably came about as a last ditch effort to not get xbox shut down. I don't know how much freedom the guy actually has.

Over 20yrs Xbox has been running mate, it's not getting shut down

 

[AJUMP23]

Neogaf is hurting me more than Phil is hurting Xbox.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

 

[FunkMiller]

It's clear from these leaks and the things he's said in recent months that he doesn't really have much of a clue how to successfully navigate as the leader of a major games console manufacturer.

 

[Little Mac]

Like would you rather have Spencer running xbox, even with how much of a clusterfuck this past year has been ... or would you rather have someone like Bob Kottick?

 

[SlimySnake]

I was somewhat for the Bethesda acquisition because i had hoped that MS would throw money at them and help them realize their full potential. Instead, they bungled up redfall and simply couldnt see the glaring flaws in Starfield's design. It's good that they delayed the game by a year, but these design flaws shouldve been apparent back in 2020 exactly 3 years ago, but Phil and the team he's surrounded himself with are not the people who can identify these flaws.

Time to clean house and bring in people who have actually designed games before to run first party studios. So that bullshit games like redfall are cancelled before they even get to production, and flawed games like halo infinite and starfield are given constructive criticism at an early design stage.

Hire Reggie or one of the Playstation execs to run the console business as a console business, not a service business. This aint a service. It's art.

 

[Knightime_X]

Compared to who?
Jim?
Most definitely not.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Compared to who?
Jim?
Most definitely not.

This doesn’t even make sense.

 

[X-Wing]

He is, not only Xbox but gaming in general.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Compared to who?
Jim?
Most definitely not.

Jim is hurting Xbox more than Phil Spencer?

 

[Horseganador]

Phil is in a rush forward from which he cannot escape and it is clear that the numbers are very far from the investment made, I do not understand how he still retains his position.

 

[Knightime_X]

This doesn’t even make sense.

Phil is to xbox as jim is to playstation
How does that NOT make sense?

 

[Topher]

I was somewhat for the Bethesda acquisition because i had hoped that MS would throw money at them and help them realize their full potential. Instead, they bungled up redfall and simply couldnt see the glaring flaws in Starfield's design. It's good that they delayed the game by a year, but these design flaws shouldve been apparent back in 2020 exactly 3 years ago, but Phil and the team he's surrounded himself with are not the people who can identify these flaws.

Time to clean house and bring in people who have actually designed games before to run first party studios. So that bullshit games like redfall are cancelled before they even get to production, and flawed games like halo infinite and starfield are given constructive criticism at an early design stage.

Hire Reggie or one of the Playstation execs to run the console business as a console business, not a service business. This aint a service. It's art.

I don't think running a console business fits in Microsoft's model long term. The endgame is a service. I don't think either Nintendo or PlayStation execs, past or present, would be a good fit.

Except for Phil Harrison.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Phil is to xbox as jim is to playstation
How does that NOT make sense?

"Compared to who?
Jim?
Most definitely not."

Besides releasing consoles that mop the floor with Xbox , how is Jim Ryan actively hurting it? Or, was that the point?

 

[LostDonkey]

Yes. And he's also kicking your cat, spitting in your food and inappropriately touching your nana.

He's is the doom.

He is the bad.