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[havoc00]

Uncle Philly!

 

[buenoblue]

Just funnel billions of dollars into making great games, hiring the best people and have some kind of exclusivity for your console so people want to buy it it doesn't seem that hard.

 

[I'm nobody]

Been realistic his army of coltbewstwood and Tim dog and that Arron green turd is the problem

 

[IAmRei]

Wow that’s ChatGPT?
ChatGPT could seriously have a better discussion with itself than any of us could have with each other. Why are we even here? Just to suffer? I’m jumping into TOTK again instead.

just embrace korok bro, korok made your life easier ~

 

[Edmund]

Been realistic his army of coltbewstwood and Tim dog and that Arron green turd is the problem

Tim Dog actually switched over to the PlayStation camp lol.

 

[Jimmy_liv]

Nah I disagree, if anything he deserves more credit. Everyone blames Mattrick for X1 reveal but Phil was in charge of XGS and should have had done better.

This. PS is a specialist on failure.

He has failed at every single step with xbox and has systematically removed every reason to buy an xbox.

Even things they were good at are now poor. Xbox live was great but nowadays online service on xbox have reoccurring issues, they dash is laggy and requires repeated reboots etc etc.

PS should have been fire along with Mattrick.

 

[Insane Metal]

Uncle Philly!

The fuck?

 

[Ozriel]

He’s the problem. A major part of it. Buck stops at his table.

That’s all there is to this.

 

[DJ12]

He's not THE problem, he's definitely a key problem but there's so many to pin it all on him.

Tim Dog actually switched over to the PlayStation camp lol.

Lies surely.

Know he stopped the Kool-aid drinking, but surely he's not openly supporting playstation now?

 

[Kdad]

Never got into Xbox as it always gave off bro vibes (except for their hard left into Kinect which didn't help them in the long run). I don't need a truck nutz game console. So...well before and well after Spencer.

 

[balls of snow]

Never got into Xbox as it always gave off bro vibes (except for their hard left into Kinect which didn't help them in the long run). I don't need a truck nutz game console. So...well before and well after Spencer.

If they continued to lean hard into the bro vibes during the xbone reveal we would have a 50:50 split market. Instead its kumbaya bullshit behind cloak and dagger operation.

 

[IDKFA]

I can't believe somebody went through that much time and effort to create a defense for a millionaire executive.

 

[Kdad]

If they continued to lean hard into the bro vibes during the xbone reveal we would have a 50:50 split market. Instead its kumbaya bullshit behind cloak and dagger operation.

50/50 between 2 of 3 and only in the NA market. Maybe 40/60 in UK. Still nothing elsewhere...that bro shit has limited appeal. But yes, better than their current situation.

 

[Kdad]

I can't believe somebody went through that much time and effort to create a defense for a millionaire executive.

A LLM can whip that up in about 10 seconds...

 

[ReBurn]

He’s the problem. A major part of it. Buck stops at his table.

That’s all there is to this.

Yep. Even if he didn't do it, he was in charge and he let it happen. And he doesn't know how to fix the problem.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

He's not the only problem but a big part of it. He's the fucking CEO, for starters.

It doesn't mean that things will change if he gets fired, because the real problem goes way deeper and has no solution at this point.

 

[PendekarRajawali]

Too much focus on game pass is the mistake. In my opinion GP only works with smaller or older games. Sacrificing Xbox flagship titles for GP is a huge mistake.

 

[REDRZA MWS]

And I know you degenerates well, so getting ahead of a few first posts:

"wow that sure is a lot of words to say xbox has no games lol"

"found phil spencer's neogaf account"

Would be nice to have some actual discussion on this instead of the normal meme circlejerk.

You already know. Your analysis is spot on. MS had it all going with 360. The Xbox one was a disaster and really set them back.

 

[Pancakes and Sausage]

It doesn’t matter who is head of Xbox.

If you are a gaming company and fail to release a single AAA game that is polished and loved by fans then you will never win.

Xbox fans have been waiting a very long time for the good games to come but they never come. Halo, Starfield were not what fans want and were not acceptable quality.

Hellblade 2 will be no different. I bet it will be a very beautiful game with piss poor gameplay. Visually stunning and oozing atmosphere that is boring as hell.

 

[IDKFA]

A LLM can whip that up in about 10 seconds...

No. I like the idea of the OP spending months on this post.

A million Chrome tabs open, desk full of paper work with random primary and secondary sources.Cigarette hanging out of the mouth and a stale pot of coffee, which is now being used as an ashtray.

Yes. That's how this masterpiece was made.

 

[I'm nobody]

Tim Dog actually switched over to the PlayStation camp lol.

For now he still a joke

 

[Denorion]

Phill Spencer's images is really going down

If it continues like this, he will need to use a gaming blazer in addition of a gaming shirt

 

[MacReady13]

Too much focus on game pass is the mistake. In my opinion GP only works with smaller or older games. Sacrificing Xbox flagship titles for GP is a huge mistake.

They sacrificed games sales for rentals in the hopes people would consider it a great bargain and buy their consoles. Problem is, in gaming, no one really wants a shit service like that! And yet he buries his head deeper in the sand cause the fanboys keep going on about what a great month gamepass has had! All those fucking games were released YEARS ago that the good majority of us already owned and finished! Phil has ruined what I and many others once loved- a great and strong Xbox brand with fun 1st and 3rd party exclusives. The 360 era was legendary and yet the fall from the 360 to the xbone was just as legendary...

 

[Plague Doctor]

Nah. It's his name on the door. He's had close to 10 years now and it's just been sad (or funny) to watch

 

[Katatonic]

The problem with Xbox is that it was never intended as an entertainment venture. It was born to keep SONY in check.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

2. If Halo Infinite shipped today, in the current state it's in, it would have still flopped. The problem with that game was they made a 2007 era game for a 2021 audience. Players moved on.

 

[Beechos]

They just don't have the talent atm. People act like they are making bad games on purpose. If it's so easy to develop talent everyone would be successful as sony/nintendo.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Who else's fault is it that putting games on PC AND spoiling the base with $1 Game Pass + easy MS Reward points led to people not buying Xbox consoles or spending money on games?

MS basically wrote the book on how not to run a console business.