Man, Phil is so full of BS nowadays.
He seemed like a cool guy when he become the boss at the xbox division. But in what way has he really improved the brand?
Only real good thing, imo, is the BC. Everything else seems to be about subscriptions, or the cloud.
Why would i get an xbox over any other console? For 3rd party, i have sony and nintendo. The few 1st party games that interest me from MS are back on the OG xbox, the 360, and the few good ones from the xbone and the series consoles are on pc too.
Buying studios doesnt change the fact that they dont know how to lead those studios. And they have proved that many times already.
Sony and Nintendo also have issues, and many practices i might dislike, but you know what they do well? Games.
They have amazing 1st party teams, and they know how to work with 3rd party studios to make great exclusives. They know the games are the most important thing to attract people to your platform.
Did any MS exclusive appear at the game award? Did any receive any award at all? Hell, what have they doing this entire year? Promoting Game Pass and trying to buy studios, because that's the only thing they seem to know how to do, instead of improving the studios they already have
They are lucky that forza has been constantly good, because they have been dropping the ball with everything else, and Phil should be ashamed of that.