MikeG85 said:
you don't think the ceo of Xbox would have any say in the build of the console itself? I think he would.100%. also if Panos Panay is still in charge of the hardware come next gen , I think we'll be looking a mighty fine console.just look at what's he achieved with the Surface and even more so the Surface Book.
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He can "say" anything he wants to, but he can only take strategic decisions. So no, he can't "make a better job engineering the console", because he wouldn't see what the console architecture looks like for months. And he wouldn't understand anything about what's going on in the box. You have lots of middle management between him and the guys engineering the console anyway. A CEO will almost never (except in small companies) do anything in the engineering process, except saying "Hey guys, make a console for gaming and not for TV or Kinecr, right? And make it powerful but not too expensive!". That's basically it. For the technical part, you have engineers doing the job.
Phil Spencer is not God, I really find it funny to still read comments like this "If Phil was there..." (because Phil is here, and he's losing more and more...).
OT: Too bad for the One, but we all know that it's harder to optimize games for it, nothing new here. A small indie developer can't put enough ressources on it. That's why we see a lot of indie developers releasing games on PC and one console only (the PS4 being the the most frequent apparently...).
