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Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

Phil if you somehow read this then please make a new company!!! Many will follow you from Microsoft and Xbox to whatever you decide to do. It is time for a new company similar to Valve to rise up!

If you don’t want to then that makes sense. You have enough at Xbox and with Microsoft over the years

Thanks for doing your best under the slop that Microslop has dumped on Xbox over all these years

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PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Phil sucks. Gamepass was a failure. He should have focused on getting their studios to make actual good games.

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entwine@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Please explain yourself. I’m not going to judge you, I’m genuinely curious where you got this perception of Phil Spencer from?

From my perspective, he was in charge during the fall of Xbox. There may have been a few good decisions he made, like backwards compat or whatever, but on the whole he destroyed Xbox. I don’t understand how some people can simultaneously be pissed at all the terrible decisions that company has been making for over a decade while also glazing the guy in charge of making those decisions.

If Xbox wasn’t part of the monopolist that is Microsoft, they would’ve gone out of business after the Xbox One. Instead, as is usually the case for orgs/people like this, they’ve been able to fail upwards all while dragging the entire gaming industry through the dirt (eg the horrible Activision acquisition, among many others). It’s actually incredible how, despite not even needing to worry about competitive pressures, Xbox still failed so badly.

So again, what circumstances have lead you to see Phil Spencer as anything other than an incompetent moron?

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Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Phil Spencer was a shit CEO. He absolutely cucked the shit out of Microsoft by releasing all their exclusives on competing platforms and eliminating any reason to even buy an Xbox Series S or X console.

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Newsflash: Exclusivity sells games consoles. It’s why you don’t see Sony pushing their IPs on other platforms other than in very exceptional circumstances, i.e. Helldivers 2 and MLB The Show.

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- HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Exclusivity is still a shitty thing. How does it make the service better for consumers?
  
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  - Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Do you want a future where PlayStation is the only home console? Because that’s how you get a future where PlayStation is the only home console.
    
    And with Sony holding a monopoly (not counting Nintendo because they’ve pretty much been doing their own thing since the Wii), they’re gonna jack up prices and force exclusivity deals to further consolidate their monopoly, as any company with such a dominant market position would.
    
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    MSids@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Valve has entered the chat and has summoned Proton (Linux compatibility layer) FEX (ARM architecture compatibility layer), and a Steam Machine. A future with these 4 could look a lot different than what we have now, though it would certainly take some time.
    
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