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Ten years ago on March 31, 2014, then-Xbox Game Studios boss Phil Spencer was named Head of Xbox. And he inherited quite a mess. You all know the story; there’s no need to beat the horse corpse for the ten-thousandth time. The brand was in disarray after what can, without hyperbole, be called a pretty disastrous launch of the Xbox One. So how far has Xbox come under Spencer’s tenure? And where’s it going from here? Let’s look back and then look forward.

To his credit, Spencer didn’t waste any time trying to clean up that mess. In May of 2014 he unbundled the Kinect motion controller from the Xbox One, thus instantly lowering the price of the console to $399 and back to price parity with Sony’s PlayStation 4. One year later at E3 2015 he announced Xbox’s extensive backwards compatibility effort to some of the loudest applause I’ve ever heard at an Xbox E3 press conference. It was a much-needed dose of player-first good news for Xbox fans, and it would be a years-long effort that brought hundreds of legacy games forward to present and future Xbox consoles (with many of them later technically improved to boot), but it would not be the last.

Phil Spencer Has Now Been Head of Xbox for 10 Years; We Look Back at His First Decade - IGN

Ten years ago on March 31, 2014, then-Xbox Game Studios boss Phil Spencer was named Head of Xbox. And he inherited quite a mess. You all know the story; there’s no need to beat the horse corpse for the ten-thousandth time. The brand was in disarray after what can, without hyperbole, be called a...

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[havoc00]

Delete duplicate thread

 

[Kacho]

We're so f'n back

 

[kiphalfton]

One fucking day off, and Microsoft could have simply written it all off as one really long April Fool's joke.

You dun goofed Microsoft.

 

[Oppoi]

Spencer cares about you. Especially you ambassadors. You've got a friend here. A friend.