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[Bernoulli]

FTC got him with Switch being 'mobile'

 

[Nothing1234]

Did Phil just admit they tried to buy AB in 2020? Am I reading that right adamsapple ? I thought this all started in November 2021???

Activision threatened to skip Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X.

 

[M1chl]

Whats going on?

 

[NickFire]

No... it's about revenue splits for games on the store.

Yeah - I jumped the gun on that. I admit it. These lives are just so fun.

 

[FUBARx89]

Edit - maybe just exclusive or altogether.

No. It's on about Acti bullying MS into a 80-20 revenue split.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I'm surprised he didn't say ABK is a small triple A publisher

Medium sized by their intentional "logic" yesterday.

 

[Thirty7ven]

FTC says AB titles, Phil Spencer says its simplistic to reduce it to one game and starts blaming Sony for Final Fantasy XVI

 

[Dick Jones]

I'm surprised he didn't say ABK is a small indie triple A publisher

Fixed it for you

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Activision threatened to skip Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X.

It's EA with Sega/Dreamcast all over again. Gaming history just loves to repeat itself sometimes (a lot of times).

 

[Venom Snake]

He lives in his own little Twitter bubble, collecting his MicroSwag, blocking descent and criticism, essentially creating a aura of narcissism around himself.

Probably cries in the shower.

He most likely doesn't have a shower.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Phil is speculating that Sony is going to buy off CoD from MS and they HAD to buy Activision as a result?

What???

 

[adamsapple]

Yeah - I jumped the gun on that. I admit it. These lives are just so fun.

Always look both ways before tagging someone, please

 

[Thirty7ven]

"If you own content, you don't have to pay for exclusivity"

"we have to pay employees and hurts financial return, but it's true"

 

[tmlDan]

When you exclude platforms it hurts the game you're working on but we pledged to put them on GP day one and want to allow sony to put it on Psplus.........Phil, what

 

[NickFire]

Always look both ways before tagging someone, please

Yup. My bad.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Xbox Game Pass state of the union sent to Nadella

This is cringe as shit

Told you they reek of political style and PR.

That's why I call him, gaming's politician. They saw what politics were able to do in social media paradigm and how easily they radicalized idol worshippers since 2015+, and model right after them.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Phil YOU could have negotiated a deal for Starfield. You DID NOT have to buy Zenimax to get a deal for Starfield, you dunce!

 

[Thirty7ven]

He's bullshitting about needing to buy publishers because Sony pays for timed exclusivity, apparently they don't do it

 

[Dane]

Starfield PS5 exclusive rumor true

 

[Bernoulli]

Starfield was going to be playstation exclusive

 

[tmlDan]

oh damn, so this confirms that starfield was supposed to be PS exclusive or at least timed

 

[F0rneus]

One thing that is nagging me, so somebody refresh my mind but didn't Phil say that he would want Game Pass on PS, and it's Sony that refused?

 

[DeepEnigma]

Hey Phil,

Pete Hines spilled the beans that you were trying for third party exclusive deals on many of their games as well.

Stop trying to play #victimhood

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

He's complaining about Sony buying exclusive content like Deathloop and Ghostwire...

And he thinks the right call is to just buy publishers AND engage in the same strategy you are complaining about?

it's not about "Securing content" and keeping it on Xbox (while also allowing it on Playstation). It's about engaging in the SAME, if NOT WORSE, tactics than Sony by taking massive games off rival platforms.

This guy is such a snake oil salesman

 

[ulantan]

He's bullshitting about needing to buy publishers because Sony pays for timed exclusivity, apparently they don't do it

He spent to much time on Xbox reddit.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Starfield was going to be playstation exclusive

Bet there'd be a 60 FPS performance mode option Day 1

 

[zapper]

coming from the one who bought zenimax and made future bethesda titles exclusive it's a bit funny

 

[Topher]

Phil Spencer blaming Sony for Bethesda PS5 exclusives, but it was established yesterday that Bethesda was the one shopping their games for exclusivity.

 

[NickFire]

I wish the judge was a gamer. Cause ain't no way a gamer believes buying Activision was necessitated by FF16.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Phil YOU could have negotiated a deal for Starfield. You DID NOT have to buy Zenimax to get a deal for Starfield, you dunce!

Pete Hines spilled the beans yesterday that they were trying on multiple games.

Phil Spencer blaming Sony for Bethesda PS5 exclusives, but it was established yesterday that Bethesda was the one shopping their games for exclusivity.

Yep. And said MS was in on negotiations as well with them.

Starfield PS5 exclusive rumor true

That MS was also negotiating for. Why stop there?

 

[GHG]

Phil is contradicting parts of Hines' testimony yesterday here.

 

[Nothing1234]

 

[Banjo64]

Bethesda games ‘skipped Xbox’ - funny way of saying timed exclusives but ok.

 

[Ogbert]

FTC says AB titles, Phil Spencer says its simplistic to reduce it to one game and starts blaming Sony for Final Fantasy XVI

To be honest, that was a pretty good answer.

He’s speaking slowly and clearly and is trying his best to steer conversation away from CoD. Note the repetition of ‘market leader’ instead of Sony.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

He's complaining about Sony buying exclusive content like Deathloop and Ghostwire...

And he thinks the right call is to just buy publishers AND engage in the same strategy you are complaining about?

it's not about "Securing content" and keeping it on Xbox (while also allowing it on Playstation). It's about engaging in the SAME, if NOT WORSE, tactics than Sony by taking massive games off rival platforms.

This guy is such a snake oil salesman

It's the same bullshit argument I've seen people on reee and twitter make each day since this acquisition has been announced smh.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Phil Spencer blaming Sony for Bethesda PS5 exclusives, but it was established yesterday that Bethesda was the one shopping their games for exclusivity.

Thought experiment

 

[X-Wing]

oh damn, so this confirms that starfield was supposed to be PS exclusive or at least timed

I mean, it's Phil Spencer. He will of course present it the best way possible for him.
He also said that Final Fantasy XVI is not coming to Xbox as if xbox as somehow a victim there. When Xbox was also approached by Square Enix for that game.

 

[tmlDan]

There's a financial upside to being on windows PC because you also own windows, utilizing the windows store or otherwise.

I don't like how Phil is acting like xbox is a silo from MS

 

[Bernoulli]

spencer now

 

[GHG]

To be honest, that was a pretty good answer.

He’s speaking slowly and clearly and is trying his best to steer conversation away from CoD. Note the repetition of ‘market leader’ instead of Sony.

He's trying to PR his way out of actually answering the questions.

 

[Nydius]

Anyone else listening to this and feeling like we’re witnessing the turning point where Sarah Bond ascends to the top spot? Don’t know what she’d do for the Xbox brand but she was a lot more composed and succinct yesterday than Spencer is.

Spencer is being too vague and open, leaving him exposed for future lines of questioning. It’s almost like he’s having a hard time keeping everything straight, too many PR talking points in his head at once.

 

[FUBARx89]

Wow. Imagine badically admitting you bought Bethesda because Sony was in talks for a likely timed exclusive starfield.

Fucking hell.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

coming from the one who bought zenimax and made future bethesda titles exclusive it's a bit funny

As usual Phil is either dumb or playing intentionally dumb. There was little financial impetus for Square-Enix to bring FF XVI to Xbox Series, especially if a publisher like ABK were pressuring you to give them a bigger cut in revenue else they would've skipped your current-gen platforms! And that's for COD, an IP that actually sells well on Xbox (unlike Final Fantasy).

 

[Thirty7ven]

To be honest, that was a pretty good answer.

He’s speaking slowly and clearly and is trying his best to steer conversation away from CoD. Note the repetition of ‘market leader’ instead of Sony.

Of course, it contradicts Peter Hines and omits their own practices but it's the right answer. The only answer he could/should give.

 

[Bernoulli]

with all this CMA shouldn't have dropped the console concerns

 

[PaNaMa]

What have you been smoking?
Xbox isn't being vilified for making Starfield exclusive. They are being vilified for saying to regulators that they had no incentive to take Bethesda games away from Playstation in order to get approval and then doing the opposite of what they said.

Sony is not doing the same with studios they own because they have never made such promises and Bungie is still multiplatform and is going to release Marathon on Xbox.

Are you really comparing Bungie to Activision/King?!?
For fuck sake, drop the Xbox discord guidelines.
Comparing a 2bn company with a 67bn company??
If MS wasn't blocked from buying Zenimax for 7.5bn with lots of IPs why would Bungie be blocked for 2bn with a single IP? (2bn + 1bn for talent retention)

Sony became market leader BY CONSUMER CHOICE , there is nothing any regulator can do about that because there is nothing wrong or illegal with it.

How Sony became market leader has nothing to do with this case. As a consumer I did not choose to be unable to play Spiderman on my Xbox. I had to buy a PlayStation for that, cause Sony made it exclusive. When someone mandates they stop doing that, then they can mandate Microsoft to do the same... Making games exclusive to your platform is something all 3 players do. Whether you promoted 100 guys from your mail room to make that game, or bought 100 guys from a smaller studio and made them your own matters for nothing. There is nothing in this deal that threatens fair market competition.

Game Exclusivity, per Sony even, has nothing to do with this acquisition. Sony doesn't want the deal to go through cause they have their boots on MS's throat in the console space, and MS getting Activision might give Xbox a sliver of life. Everyone is pretending it's something else but it's not. Xbox is trying to be more competitive, Sony is trying to block them from getting more competitive, and everyone is acting like MS is the bad guy here.

 

[Ogbert]

He's trying to PR his way out of actually answering the questions.

Of course.

That’s what the legal system is. PR in suits!

 

[Dick Jones]

Of course, it contradicts Peter Hines and omits their own practices but it's the right answer. The only answer he could/should give.

I'd believe Petey over the host of Location Location Location

 

[DeepEnigma]

Wow. Imagine badically admitting you bought Bethesda because Sony was in talks for a likely timed exclusive starfield.

Fucking hell.

In which they were involved with as well since Bethesda was shopping them out.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Anyone else listening to this and feeling like we’re witnessing the turning point where Sarah Bond ascends to the top spot? Don’t know what she’d do for the Xbox brand but she was a lot more composed and succinct yesterday than Spencer is.

Spencer is being too vague and open, leaving him exposed for future lines of questioning. It’s almost like he’s having a hard time keeping everything straight, too many PR talking points in his head at once.

That's saying a lot considering (IMO) Sarah got obliterated yesterday.