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Faelco on 05 August 2015
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Machiavellian said:
Faelco said:
Risthel said:
I still don't get why so many people (and gaming media) worship Phil Spencer so much. He's a politician, he talks a lot but rarely delivers.

 

Yep, he still didn't do anything that good IMO. His greatest advantage is to "not be Don Mattrick". But he teases way too much all of his events and butchered the TR communication (and even Kinext communication IIRC). Except the "he undid what Don Mattrick did" part, nothing should bring him his gaming messiah image. 

Actually a lot of what Phil has done probably will not be seen for years or are things under the hood per say then anything else.  What you can see from Phil is the change in direction for Xbox and his emphasis to play to the strenghts of the brand.  These are things that are not as transparent to your average punter.  Most gamers probably have no clue what Phil has to do within MS to lead the division and steer it to a more games centric eco system unlike where it was going at the start of the generation.

The reason you do not see why the Xbox division has turned around and actually making good strides is because you do not know what it takes to do the man's job.  You think he wakes up and says, i will not be Don M but that's just the tip of the iceburg.  Phil has to change minds of not just his own bosses but Sudios, Developers and Publishers.  You can see he is winning this battle because you see much less negative comments from anon sources on those fronts.

My advice is to not just look at the surface but thinking about everything Phil has to do to turn around the start of the X1 which is no small task and he did have to make a lot of tough decisions and sell it to the big brass.

Anyway, he brought back Halo Wars so I am wonder if Keyboard and Mouse support will be supported in the X1 on release.  Really interested to see how this game goes.

Really ? I can't understand how awesome Phil Spencer is because I don't know what his job is ? And yet there is nothing in your post saying why he is that good... The only things you're saying is "he has to change minds" and "he is winning this battle because you see much less negative comments". Really ? That's all it takes for you ? There are less negative comments compared to the DRM storm at the announcement, sure. But if you can't see negative comments about Xbox on the internet, I think you have connection issues...

He butchered the communication about Tomb Raider. He butchered the communication about the disappearance of Kinect. He overhype every event even if there is almost nothing behind. He's losing third party support and no PR stunt can charm them like it does on the players. All he does is literally wearing "gamers T shirts" and saying "Yeah, we work for the gamers now". He didn't do anything significant until now and is still losing the console war really hard (I'm not even sure that it's really better than the Mattrick era for this). If you want me to believe that he is good, at least give me some arguments, and not a "you can't understand his job" stunt.