Phil Spencer: I honestly don't goal the team on how many units Sony sells

[radha]

Zekkyou said:

radha said:
What a change of attitude from this

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“This year will be the largest in the history of the video game industry, with Xbox 360 leading the charge in the U.S. and abroad,” said Don Mattrick, senior vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. “History has shown us that the first company to reach 10 million in console sales wins the generation battle. We are uniquely positioned to set a new benchmark for the industry.”

Source :- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2008/may08/05-14360first10pr.aspx
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I don't really see how that quote is relevant to what he said here, nor why it would matter even if it was a direct contradiction of what Phil said. They're two separate quotes, made by 2 different people, 7~ years apart, and each in a different context. There being a 'change' between the two doesn't seem particularly surprising, or even note worthy :p

It points out that when they were ahead, number were relevant to them, now they are behind and the attitude is "who cares about numbers anyway, right?"