Phillip W. Spencer III:"Xbox’s aim with Call of Duty is to give players choice, not "do slimy platform things" that make one option more appealing."

It's a good thing to do but they are also kinda legally obligated with COD.

If MS is going to buy a chunk of the industry the only Ok result is then being mostly 3rd party and not doing Xbox exclusive shit.

Spencer is a chode but some of you are missing the forest for the trees.
 
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Slimy platform things like buying Nintendo for a career moment.

Or spending Sony out of business.

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Why is he pretending he hasn't done "slimy platform things" himself? Timed exclusivity for Game Pass and Xbox has been a thing for a while now.

Seriously.


If anyone wants to DM me a list of videos of interviews of Phil/Xbox saying the opposite, I'll handle the video crowbcat should be making about Phil Spencer and this change of heart he has. You'll get full credit too.
 
Gets an easy win with the Xbox showcase, then immediately reverts to his "Good guy Phil" persona. The worst part is that some people still think it's genuine.
 
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Call of Duty for everyone with more choice than ever before. Play it on PS5, Xbox, PC, or subscribe. Soon Switch 2. No timed exclusivity for betas or perks of any kind.

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They're mad they don't get 12 month exclusive access to entire modes anymore. It's ok, there's still Destiny 🤭 (I assume Destiny expansions still have laughably egregious PS timed exclusive stuff, kill me if wrong)
 
Microsoft is one of the most slimy companies in the world lol.

Times up phil just keep your mouth shut and dance to the tune of satya.
Yeah, this is a $3 trillion plus company with $ hundreds of billions in cash and record high profits. Yet they have been firing tens of thousands of people. Hell they just shut down Tango and Arcane.

Slimey doesn't start in describing them.
 
Jim's 10-year parity deal forced this. Seems like Phil's upset and lashing back. $70bil spend for Xbox to win, only to turn Xbox into Activision.
 
Was Phil in charge at that time?
Phil was in charge when they acquired Zenimax and ABK, which was done with the intent to withhold content from PlayStation and to sure up their ability to compete as a platform holder.
Industry consolidation is anti-consumer, even if they decide to put their games on PlayStation.
 
Phil was in charge when they acquired Zenimax and ABK, which was done with the intent to withhold content from PlayStation and to sure up their ability to compete as a platform holder.
Industry consolidation is anti-consumer, even if they decide to put their games on PlayStation.
You know their intentions because you were in the board room when they discussed it?
 
To be fair since Phil has taken command Xbox hasn't really paid 3rd party game developers to keep their game off other platforms.

I'm not saying it doesn't exist, (looking at you tomb raider 2). But VERY RARLEY.

Instead they invested money into buying and sustaining the studios they bought.
 
To be fair since Phil has taken command Xbox hasn't really paid 3rd party game developers to keep their game off other platforms.

I'm not saying it doesn't exist, (looking at you tomb raider 2). But VERY RARLEY.

Instead they invested money into buying and sustaining the studios they bought.
He paid a lot of money to essentially cancel the PS5 version of Starfield thinking that would move the needle his direction
 
Com on you guys, ms is the victim here. Sony doing slimy console things is why they had to buy besthesda and activision. They had no choice. 😆
 
He has a point. It doesn't get more scummy than keeping a character off other platforms like Sony did with Spider-Man in that Avengers game. That's the lowest of the low. Probably hugely hurt that game too.
 
What about…
"Play it day one with Game Pass"
…???

And don't they have a court order preventing them from doing any exclusivity?
 
What about…
"Play it day one with Game Pass"
…???

And don't they have a court order preventing them from doing any exclusivity?

Not a court order. They have a 10 year contract with Sony which they used to help gain passage for the acquisition.
 
Let me get this straight, you guys are upset because Microsoft is doing parity across the board with COD? Microsoft could easily do perks only xbox owners would benefit off of but they are not.
 
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That's cute of Phil calling Sony slimy when he bought out two multi platform publishers with the intention of making the games exclusive for Xbox. Too bad it backfired you slimy son of a bitch.

He also dedicated a team to getting around the clause in the minecraft purchase agreement that specified that minecraft must remain on playstation systems.
Despite purchasing the company with full knowledge of said clause.
Guy is a lying, sleazy, disengenous pos.
 
Let me get this straight, you guys are upset because Microsoft is doing parity across the board with COD? Microsoft could easily do peeks only xbox owners would benefit off of but they are not.
This couldn't be any more dishonest. The replies in this thread are calling out Phil and Xbox's staggering hypocrisy
 
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