• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Phil Spencer is Retiring and Sara Bond is Out bot there's something really worst than that

"As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future, we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop. Games are and always will be art, crafted by humans, and created with the most innovative technology provided by us."

We like the word "slop" now?
She just got fired for that...
 
Phil has long deserved this "retirement." Hopefully this does move Xbox in a better direction. Hard to imagine how it could get much worse outside of closing the whole thing down.
 
Last edited:


Anthony Anderson Abc GIF by HULU
 
Women [...] have no place in the gaming industry. Their goal is to extract money, not to create, craft masterpieces, build a legacy, etc.
Amy Hennig singlehandedly changed the trajectory of Sony first-party through the groundbreaking Uncharted series and paved the way for the company to enjoy nearly two decades of year-after-year success in crafting story-driven action/adventure games.

Name me a greater legacy than that one, fool.
 
Last edited:
This is worrying. MS are not afraid to abandon stuff even after spending billions. Spencer was doing a bad job, but it seems he was also keeping Satya from shutting the door.

Not sure how this Sharma lady was appointed as lead with little qualifications. Wish Satya had contacted a Peter Moore, or even one of the former Sony execs like Andrew House or Shawn Layden to steady the ship before making some wildcard appointment.
 


What we writing to her boys?



Quality over quantity and if you are serious about taking risks let's see the likes of The Coalition make something non Gears related

Look into resurrecting classic IPs like Rare or work with third parties or try out a licensed IP like Marvel/Sony

Traditional console with a good launch line up although that is probably unrealistic to say the least

Ignore major Nelson's community comments, let the products speak for themselves , we don't need more Jez Corden's Colteastwoods, Parris , Destin etc

Put an end to the rotten shill culture

Finally make improvements to the achievements system that has long been requested


I am Probably pissing in the wind with all of that, but that's some of what I would of liked to have happened
 
Last edited:


I would suspect it's very much a who she knows, not what she knows type of situation.

She also happens to be on the board of a few other publicly listed companies:



My guess is there's most likely going to be someone important in the world of finance in her personal/family life pulling the strings for her to get where she is.

Always follow the money.
 


Sorry guys, nevermind. She doesn't really want to know.

She's off to a great start though.

Probably forgot to tell copilot to not reply to her tweets.
 
Honestly, she couldn't possibly destroy Xbox any more than Phil did.

The fact they let that dipshit not only run a huge force in gaming completely into the ground, but also spend 80 billion dollars while doing it, is completely wild. Just shows how completely out of touch Microsoft is with gamers currently.
 
Top Bottom