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LudicrousSpeed on 23 March 2018
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Faelco said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Thats the problem, Phil Spencer's true plan can only unfold at this point towards and onward towards next gen. All Phil could do was fix what the past leadership had done. Whatever happens with Gamepass and Xbox next gen is all on Phil. If Gamepass does succeed it will depend upon exclusives to hoist itself up because it will worth its own weight in gold (literally). It would be more profitable than selling games by themselves.

Phil Spencer has been head of Xbox for years now, and he was even head of the dev studios before that. The "it's not his fault, it's all because of the guys before him" excuse has stopped working a long time ago.

 

And if someone says "You can't recover from a launch fail", the PS3 proved that wrong. 

He was the head of the game studios, but that’s more like being the head coach of the football team. You still have a general manager who gets your players, makes all the financial movies, and dictates the direction of the team. I don’t think anyone can deny the strides the division has made since he took over.

The PS3 had a bad launch by Sony standards maybe, but it was still on pace from day one to outsell the 360. It’s only issue was price. Plus Sony has a larger presence in the industry, so it’s much easier for them to “recover”. Xbone was starting in a worse position plus had price, power, and image against it plus launched like a week after the PS4, which did everything right and even more at Microsoft’s expense leading up to launch. Not an apt comparison.