Rumour - Phil Spencer to retire after next console launch (UP: MS said that Spencer isn’t retiring imminently)

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Microsoft is denying the rumors so we'll see what happens.

Can't feel too terrible for a guy whose been able to rake in mega millions while running an unsuccessful business division, but we'll never know how many of the bad decisions we attribute to him were really his or a direct order from the top of the house of a corporation where gaming is such an insignificant fraction of their total revenue.
 
"I see commentary that if you just build great games, everything would turn around. It's just not true, that if we go off and build great games all of a sudden you'll see console shares shift in some dramatic way"

Still my favorite Phil quote 😂
 
He needs to retire now. He has been a complete disaster for Xbox. Sad to see such a once great console maker self-destruct.
 
Normie masses are so easy to control.

I remember when he made 'pro-consumer decisions' like games day 1 on gamepass, day 1 on PC, even day 1 on ps5, his always-positive PR talks. It was IMPOSSIBLE to criticize this guy. Sure he was making decisions that sounded incredible for customers in the short term but I think it wasn't hard to see where it would lead Microsoft one day. And now that a bunch of people get fired, its near impossible to praise this guy without normies screaming at you, LOL.
 
You can't fire me, I quit!

The downfall of Microsoft games division will be studied for years.
Don't think so, it's not like it wasn't obvious from the start.

"We're struggling with our sales, what should we do ?"
"Make more appealing games ?"
"No we're gonna release everything on PC day one"
"No that's, stupid, what else ?"
"We're gonna put our games in a subscription service with a refundable 1$ trial"
"Well that doesn't sound to be a good idea, but if it's only old games that would let people buy them afterwards, why not"
"No, we're gonna put day one games in it"
"Are you insane ? That's the worst decision you could possibly come up with"
"We need more day one games, let's buy studios, or even publishers like Zenimax"
"Stop it, you're burining too much money for no return"
"We need even more day one games, let's buy Activision for 70 billion dollars"
"Gosh, just don't put CoD day one there"
"Let's put CoD day one there"
"Okay I'm done"
"Oh noes, it doesn't work, let's put our games on PS5 then"
"..."
"Well, let's just lay off everybody"
 
"I see commentary that if you just build great games, everything would turn around. It's just not true, that if we go off and build great games all of a sudden you'll see console shares shift in some dramatic way"

Still my favorite Phil quote 😂

The worst thing about that quote is the people interviewing him at the time never even questioned it, just sat there.

If what he said was true then how did Nintendo and PlayStation achieve success over the years?

At a guess what i think he was trying to say is it's not worth the effort and they don't see the console market as a high priority, if at all.

Imo it's pure wasted potential because I believe if they got it right across the board it would be a amazing platform alternative to PlayStation and Nintendo.
 
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