PSlayer
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I'm baffled by how many people still act like Phill Spencer is some kind of savior of the xbox brand. All he does is say things people want to hear even though most of the time he fails to meet his own promises. It's been almost a decade of this. People trash Don mattrick but forget that phill spencer was part of his team when every questionable decision made back in the late xbox 360 era/early xbox one was done.
The only thing he did right was to backtrack the awful early design decisions like always online and need of kinect, which realistically anyone, including mattrick himself, would eventually do because it was the only reasonable way to save the brand from going the Sega way. How many exclusive ips failed to deliver or were just outright cancelled? How many times did spencer promised to do better with japanese games? They spent 2.5 billions in fucking minecraft,a game that can't be turned into a franchise and a lot of people already had.They didn't buy Bungie,or Bioware or even Remedy at a time were not only they could but sony was doing it with Naughty dog,MediaMolecule and others.
Then what about their big IPs? Gears of war and halo lost their relevance,the latter was run into the ground by 343i, and Forza,although pretty good, is a racing game and therefore niche, Fable is MiA for a long time. I honestly don't think Bethesda and Activision were good buys simply because i don't think MS will be able to properly manage the undelying IPs.
The only thing he did right was to backtrack the awful early design decisions like always online and need of kinect, which realistically anyone, including mattrick himself, would eventually do because it was the only reasonable way to save the brand from going the Sega way. How many exclusive ips failed to deliver or were just outright cancelled? How many times did spencer promised to do better with japanese games? They spent 2.5 billions in fucking minecraft,a game that can't be turned into a franchise and a lot of people already had.They didn't buy Bungie,or Bioware or even Remedy at a time were not only they could but sony was doing it with Naughty dog,MediaMolecule and others.
Then what about their big IPs? Gears of war and halo lost their relevance,the latter was run into the ground by 343i, and Forza,although pretty good, is a racing game and therefore niche, Fable is MiA for a long time. I honestly don't think Bethesda and Activision were good buys simply because i don't think MS will be able to properly manage the undelying IPs.
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