Phil Spencer admits defeat in console space, and doesn't think great games would help Xbox's market share.
While not strictly a PC thing, I don't think I have seen such a defeatist stance from a head of a big company for quite a while. Usually they like to sugar coat it but it really feels like things aren't going the right way for Xbox and Phil. Personally I think that Phil has done more for PC gaming than arguably any other xbox head has done in the past. He brought xbox exclusives to PC day 1, he started gamepass on PC and most importantly for me, all of the first party games are available to purchase on Steam instead of only the janky Windows store.
At the sametime, it does feel as though he is too soft on developers. 343 screwed up Halo not once, not twice but at least 3 times. The way MCC was handled at it's launch on xbox one and then it's launch on PC needed months-years of fixes. Halo Infinites single player to me wasn't all that great but multiplayer certainly had a lot of potential which was ruined by delays, cosmetics and battlepass. And Halo 5 wasn't all that well received not to mention all the false promises of co-op and etc. And I think that shouldn't have gone unpunished for so long.
I also don't agree with his stance on making great games won't change anything cause the problem is that they haven't made enough great games to justify the stance imo. Their highest profile game this entire generation thus far has been Forza Horizon. Every other game has either been mid to skippable. Starfield feels like the first AAA title that feels like a must have for people in the box but then you look at how many games Sony has been able to turn out within since launch and it's like, come on man. It's time to rule xbox with an iron fist instead of just letting devs do what they want. Cause otherwise, just go full multiplatform and let Playstation/Nintendo/PC handle the hardware business.
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