Studios had control before and look what happened, you are living in a fantasy world. You were going to buy every game on game pass? most of them are filler old titles that nobody has ever heard about, I'll take quality over quantity every day of the week. Also their studios had creative control before that's why nothing gets done there, you have to have a balance and Phil is trying to be the message board hero and just let people take forever on their projects and look what happened. Crackdown 3 announced way too early, development issues across the board but is finally released to a flat reception and multiplayer that's nothing like what was promised. A fake Fable game from lionhead that gets cancelled and the studio closed because the project was allowed to get away from the studio and was no longer viable. Everwild announced and 2 years later rebooted after the creative director left these aren't the only examples btw but they ALL happened under Phil Spencer's "leadership" and that's a problem. The guy isn't good at studio management, you can't just throw money at a team and say "here take as long as you want" they are going to need regular releases to keep GP looking fresh. They have only released 3 AAA games since GP launched so that "day and date" stuff has been nothing more than a marketing ploy so far.
There is alot to unpack here.
First of all, gamepass isnt a filler. its you, who has this weird notion, that all games has to be high production. Not every studios can afford it. There are great games which have bad graphic, but the gameplay is top notch. Look at skyrim. meh graphic, combat is stiff. but its one of the best games out there. I have yet to see a sony quality gameplay like that.
Things take time, and you need to let your customer, games are being worked on. Staying silent will make you weak to your competition, but i doubt you care that.
Everwild is rare issues. They wanted to make an ambitious game. they over pushed their talent, and they are now paying dearly. If you want early project, you have starfield, avowed, fable and perfect dark. those games were announced the same time as everwild. but that wont fit your narrative.
Phil did amazing job, and his work is paying of now. Gamepass is the result of his management. Bethesda is releasing 2 exclusive games next year. deathloop and tokyo ghost wire would have been xbox exclusive, have phil not honored the deal. but because he is doing it, its timed exclusive to playstation, which paid to keep it 1 year away from xbox console. Even though, they dont own the studio, or have even supported the studio make the game.
They launched outriders, and Mlb a playstation exclusive. they announced 27 games day 1 on e3 and they even have more games, which are delayed due to the pandemic. They did small day 1 games, which flew under you radar, because you dont give a crap about gamepass.
So please, do us a favor and shut up. You can blame him for not delivering exclusive to his console like what sony did. But for you to try and undermine the work is he did, is dishonest.
And remember, 2022 and after that, His studios will bump out games nonstop. And you guys will scream about, how its not 3rd person story driven.
Let me tell you something, every gamer out there is sick of 3rd person games. There are alot of different genre out there. tactic games, real time strategy, racing, sports, rpg, turn based rpg, platform, metroidvania genre, shooter, multiplayer games, co-op games. And there are great games from these genre. sticking to one genre makes your games geared toward a certain group, and excludes others. Same reason why xbox lost japanese market. because it didnt focus on games they wanted, and made them feel alienated.
This isnt a fanboy shit from me. I am just tired of you guys using the same garbage argument to downplay other games. I am primary pc games, and i love certain games, which sony cant produce it. Splinter cell series, Metal gear series, and dues ex, thief, old assassins' creed games. These games dont fit sony narrative, because of their focus on cinema like games. While in reality those games are much more fun, than what sony produces in my opinion. Their pathetic atempt in doing it on Spiderman game was laughable. MJ a reporter was able to sneak on military group easily, like they are blind. I love spiderman game, because its spiderman, but those missions are crime to genre that i love.