| Frank_kc said: Nothing personal against Phil, its just my own opinion based on what he keeps saying: 1- Phil Spencer: "Exclusives doesn't matter." Comment: all MS game showed on 23rd were either referring MS exclusives games or Launch exclusive games. In addition, if exclusives doesn't matter, then bring all XBOX games like Halo and Gears to other platforms like PS and Nintendo. 2- Phil Spencer: "frankly, held back is a meme that gets created by people who are too caught up in device competition" Halo Infinite appears to be held back by previous generation. Its not me only saying that, many saying that on youtube.
3- Phil Spencer: "If we’re going to spend energy, let’s go spend it on [growing the industry], not ‘my piece of plastic is better than your piece of plastic." Nonetheless, all what Microsoft is talking about is the most powerful console (compared to other consoles) and the 12 teraflops power. 4- Phil Spencer: "You won't be forced into the next generation. We want every Xbox player to play all the new games from Xbox Game Studios" Two days later: Xbox One X and XBox S digital edition end of life edition announced. So you either buy a 2013 Xbox One 7 years old console or buy Xbox Series x which is to me forcing gamers to new generation hardware since no one wants to play on a 7 years old hardware.
This is only my opinion based on what Phil actually said publicly. MS has been trashed this generation and should have been ready for next generation. However, it appears MS is not ready and will lose again this generation. For all the flack Don Mattrick gets for anti consumer policies, from a gaming perspective, they were ready for new generation and showed real exclusive games at launch and some people even rated there launch game higher than Sony's launch games. |
Assuming all of these are accurate, you have to look a little deeper.
Point 1: Which Xbox games are exclusive? They all run on PC and 8th/9th gen Xboxes. Maybe even mobile devices.
Point 2: Are high end PC games held back by low end PCs? There's minimum specs but I don't think they hurt higher end rigs with all the bells and whistles.
Point 3: Arguable. But at some point gaming needs to be like every other media. Any DVD will run on any DVD player. There's different quality machines but you get the experience. It's not "My Blu-ray player is better than yours". You just buy the software and you play it on whatever hardware you have. That's how I see it, anyway.
Point 4: The original XBO from 2013 has already been discontinued (but still works great. I have two of them!). The Xbox One digital didn't sell well. The Xbox One X probably costs more to produce and isn't their best seller. The Xbox One S is still on the market and will still be supported got years to come. Saying that the Xbox One is abandoned because certain models are discontinued is like saying the PS3 was abandoned when the PS3 Slim was released.
He may be hypocritical or even a liar about some things but the points in the OP don't fall into that criteria, from my POV.
