You accuse Phil Spencer of dismantling Xbox 1st party studios. What evidence do you have of this? He became a corporate VP in 2017. At that point he would have the power to shut studios down. Before that everything he did had to have to been OKed by a higher up. He had essentially the same position that Matt Booty has now.
Since 2017, Xbox has gained over 15 new studios, started Game pass(!), released the X1X, and the Series consoles. Which part of that legacy should he have been thrown out over? He also worked with Bonnie Ross and convinced Satya Nadella to get a more full throated support of the Xbox brand from MS, something that had been severely lacking during the X1 generation. This resulted in Bethesda's acquisition. For that he should have been fired? If you can point to things he specially did that was worse than what I listed I'd like to see it.
He was put in charge of Xbox, Xbox Live, Groove Music and Movies & TV teams, and Microsoft Studios in March 2014. Whatever calls were made from 2014 on, they were made while he was in charge of Xbox. Period. If anyone can prove to me that he didn't make those calls I'd love to be proven wrong. Under most other circumstances, he wouldn't have lasted long enough for the things you credit him for to have happened or proven successful on his watch. And who really cares what consoles he released if they don't have games? Xbox One didn't sell 65% the units that Xbox 360 did because a great job was done by anyone in charge of Xbox.
In my job, if someone became the new boss and presided over a 7 year span where our product sold only 65% of what it did the previous 7 or 8 years that boss would be out. He'd be incredibly lucky to make it to 5 years. Our company can't afford that at all and we'd be in a panic to figure out how to quickly fix what just happened. It wouldn't even matter that he wasn't in charge when the downward trajectory hit. He'd be removed because he obviously couldn't change it. In fact, over a year ago our boss was fired after only 3 years on the job simply because we were behind on fulfilling orders for a year and it wasn't even his fault. Our sales team took orders way beyond what our production capacity was and the President of the entire company didn't even care. We were expected to "make it work".
I've just never worked in any field or for any company where someone can be in charge during such a decline and keep their job. I've seen people fired faster for less.
Dude, he is the one who literally made Microsoft focus on xbox. I dont know what the fk you smoking. He has been given a fking mess from don matrik. And what did he do after took the position? Buy minecraft, by convincing Microsoft. Fixed the horrible mistake xbox one was, by releasing x1s, then x1x. He literally made gamepass for the xbox. Went to hunt studios. And now made xbox a strong console. The same xbox, that don put in the ground.
If you hate him that is fine. But don't say he ruined xbox. He freaking put yakuza, which was known as a Playstation games. Tell me, how do you think xbox players felt, when they saw the yakuza series on their console. He even freaking gave them MLB the show, and exclusive Playstation game, day 1 for xbox players.
I never said I hated him. I said I dislike the job he did. I don't know him as a person. I only know him as a personality in charge of Xbox. And in that regard I disapprove of him. People need to stop blaming Mattrick. Spencer was in charge of Xbox for pretty much the entire generation of Xbox One. Buying Minecraft didn't bring games to Xbox's customers who paid to get experiences they couldn't get anywhere else. Like I said, who cares what consoles released under him? Without games what do they matter?
I'm going to guess outside of list warriors, few Xbox gamers cared about Yakuza being on Xbox. I never said Spencer didn't make some good moves. I said it took him too long to get anything going and meanwhile Xbox gamers had to sit and watch while everyone else was eating well. They're STILL watching. Yes, he did hype shit over and over again to constantly let people down year after year. I also think he has allowed mismanagement within Xbox's first party. Even David Jaffe and Colin Moriarty feel that's something holding Xbox back. They think Microsoft needs to offer someone who has helped manage Sony lately a ton of money to come over and show them how to do it.
Let me ask you this, what are YOU smoking that you're so on board with a guy whose fans have been waiting 7 years for a bunch of great games they can't get on any other console and will likely be waiting years more? I never even let a woman waste more than 3 months of my time from the start these days. Learned that shit the hard way.
AND JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR! : I'm not saying any of this from a perspective of "fuck you, Spencer sucks". I'm legit just having a conversation and explaining why I don't like the job he's done. No ill intent or nasty feelings.
