feynoob
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It's not insult, I am just surprised that you are ignoring the most important part. MS needed to invest on their brand, they didn't. Phil took a brand which MS ignored internally.So are you asking me a question or insulting me under the pretext of a question?
Phil didn't have authority. Don mattrick is the one who had authority during that time. By the time Phil took over the responsibly, he had tons of issue to fix.Phil had control of Xbox as an overseer for two years before Matt even left and took his spot less than a week after he did. He had control of Xbox for 4 years as top brass and 2 years as 2nd from the top overseeing studios before he he got more responsibilities.
From bad Xbox image, to expensive priced system which was weaker than the PS4.
I can give you this part. Entire MS is to blame for this, and him included.You're acting like Phil was some new guy with no influence thrown into the position at random. You and OP are overlooking the fact that Phil is the one who delayed removing Kinect as a bundle for the Xbox One, and making the bad timed exclusive choices with the wrong games.
This was don mattrick fault.He destroyed the image of the console further by choosing the broken Assassin's Creed Unity as the leading holiday game bundled with the console, which hurt the brands reputation as everyone ran to buy it at it's cheap holiday price, souring many. He is the one who wasted money on several dead-end games like Quantum Break and released them unfinished, he is the one that created the modern term "console exclusive" to cover-up the lack of actual exclusives, he is the one that slow-walked addressing the Halo Master Chief Collection disaster, and we all know how that turned out. He is also the one who pushed the "did you see it?" Titanfall PR.
If he actually invested on first party studios, none of this would have happened.
Xbox was forced all kind of bad deals, due to how bad first party studios were.
Phil isn't blameless either.
Why don't you list the actual Xbox problems, during his era?He is also the one who pulled away from VR after promising it, he is the one who still tried to keep Kinect around after removing it from bundles, including spending money on deals for late kinect software releases up until 2017, 3 years after Kinect was no longer sold with every Xbox One. He is the one who pushed Cortana voice commands on the Xbox One in 2016, he is the one that caused Xbox to fall behind on indies despite the 360 starting the modern Indie gaming industry, and had to make a new program to catch up with Sony on indies. He is the one who made the then unpopular decision to push releasing Xbox games on PC because the Xbox One had no traction in 2016.
Like the lack of MS involvement on the brand?
The lack of investment from MS itself?
Or how about the lack of MS to actually invest in their brand without needing Phil at all?
The guy got a sinking ship, and actually put in a position where gamers want Xbox now.
I am not absolving him all his problems. I am pointing the fingers at the people who put Xbox in that situation, and that person is not Phil.
Keep in mind that MS actually wanted to shutdown Xbox and sell them. That was the situation of Xbox one.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstec...ned-xbox-brand-after-the-xbox-one-launch/amp/