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[Alan Wake]

People keep blaming Don Mattrick. He left 11 years ago. Spencer is obviously responsible, although there's a lot we don't know about. He's got a boss too, and it's not impossible Spencer's been doing things trying to save the brand. No matter what, the result speaks for itself at this point.

 

[Revolutionary]

It only makes sense if you were there when he was rolled out as his own brand.

Then it makes all the sense. He's supposed to be jesus.

I always thought it was funny that they shopped Spencer onto Harvey Dent. It felt like it was foreshadowing a Two Face turn... which came true in a way since Xbox games are now on competitor consoles, even after he said it would only be 4 games.

 

[Moses85]

He killed my girl Joanna.

Microsoft

 

[Karim]

Haters want a singular scapegoat. How do any of us know what went on behind closed doors with the higher ups? You can only do what is allowed. No one on this forum knows shit.

Behind the scene? He failed miserably and this is the consequence. What happened is in front of the eyes of everyone lol.

 

[bighugeguns]

I like him, seems to keep healthy, good teeth, don't see what the problem is here exactly?

 

[8BiTw0LF]

The only true Xbox king there ever was:

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Phil Spencer is a big cause of Xbox's decline

But this year's decisions and future ones are driven by Satya

 

[peish]

He saved Xbox before, what makes you all think he will have the heart to kill off this baby?

 

[Ar¢tos]

I suspect that Phil Spencer is Don Mattrick secret gay lover executing his revenge on the company that ditched his eternal love.

You can't just blame one of them, you need to blame both.

 

[ahtlas7]

You want me to defend P. Spencer?

 

[existensmaximum]

Phil is not the problem, he is the solution to a problem that wouldn't exist if it weren't for Phil.

"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

/Homer Simpson

 

[Insanemaelstrom]

I don't get one thing:

For 2013, only Don Mattrick is blamed.

For every failure after Don:
Spencers actions are usually accused by saying people higherup the MS corporate chain are the ones forcing spencer.

Wouldn't that excuse also apply to Don Mattrick, since there were higher ups during his time as well.

If you are blaming the entirety of the 2013 debacle on Mattrick, surely it is only logically sound to blame issue afterwards on spencer

 

[winjer]

All of the decisions that Xbox made in the past decade are in line with the Microsoft modus operandi.
Phill is to blame, but in reality he is just doing what Microsoft does.
For a decade or so, the Xbox division seemed to have a certain degree of independence. But that has ended.

 

[PeteBull]

Its not a problem that phil fucked xbox from xbox one times till now, the actual real problem is- no1 wanted to fire him once they saw how diseastrous it will be, which means he is doing what his boss wants.
Whole gamepass, series s specs, day1 pc ports of xbox first party exclusives and even playstation ports, its all not phil alone ideas but whole microsoft's leadership, same with nasty price increases of their hardware and services.
Its all microsoft's plan, top heads there want it, and phil is just their puppet who will be convinient fallguy when the time comes.

 

[Radical_3d]

Go watch E3 2014. He is the problem.

Microsoft were about to close the Xbox division after Xbox One. He convinced them not to.

Tales from my ass. One sold better than Series and had no 80B$ (Zenimax + Activlizzard) acquisition to justify.

 

[Germuso]

Ask Tango Gameworks

 

[Sintoid]

I'll be honest - Since I don't know wich decisions are made by Phil Spencer to me he's only the face of XBox, the one who tells the stories in front of a camera. I don't think he planned by himself things like Gamepass or acquisitions, I can't imagine a man so powerful into a gigantic company like Microsoft. If he's not directly responsable of those choices he's only a punching ball for gamers, if only 25% of those decisions have his ok he's the greatest asshole in history of gaming

 

[Critical Hit]

At the start of the generation, Xbox didn't have any exclusives or highly anticipated games/sequels. That's not his fault. The situation changed after the acquisition of the studios, so the next generation should be more competitive. Game Pass was great while it lasted.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Go watch E3 2014. He is the problem.

Tales from my ass. One sold better than Series and had no 80B$ (Zenimax + Activlizzard) acquisition to justify.

It's actually true, there is a podcast where Phil talks about it, the Microsoft execs didn't care about gaming and didn't see a way to justify trying to salvage Xbox. They wanted to close it.

Phil convinced them to keep going, likely because he sold them on the future of cloud and how Microsoft can get Game Pass on every TV and every device.

For Microsoft, Xbox was the Bill Gates project where he wanted to compete with Sony, but it was never some big earner and didn't make a dent in their overall business, so the guys who came after Gates didn't give a shit about it. They thought Xbox One ruined it forever.

Moving away from traditional consoles and becoming a potential cloud gaming service is what made them keep it alive.

But it wasn't growing fast enough so they used 70 billion to get Activision and speed up the growth. But the growth wasn't big enough, and here we are, with higher prices.