Phil Spencer: "Nintendo future exists off their own hardware"

[mjk45]

zero129 said:

mjk45 said:

Starfield was in production for years so MS's impact in regard to Starfield is minimal, its what happens going forward that matters, MS bought Bethesda knowing their strengths and weaknesses, so as long as they facilitate those strengths and in turn look at remedying weaknesses like Bethesda's over reliance on a few key players like Todd Howard,by encouraging more mentoring delegation and giving the the creative staff more responsibility so you end up in a better position going forward, that along with further investment would then enable more games to be in various stages of production. so if they don't over interfere and  stick to just those type of decisions and let Bethesda do what it built its success on it will be fine.

I guess we should all just drop key devs from Nintendo and Sony too right?. If Todd's doesnt want to step aside why should he and who is MS to tell him to?.

This is like Saying if Miyamoto didnt want to hand Zelda or whatever over to some  else he should be forced to since a few fans feel say his next Zelda game wasnt what they wanted, but everyone else was loving it way more people than the few who is complaining on a gaming form.

Ms are doing a good thing by allowing their devs to do what they want under their own leadership like they always have had. When Ms used to step in in the past people used to complain look at rare. Now people are complaing since Ms are not stepping in more and getting rid of key stafff from their studios?. Imagine the back lash if ms got rid of Todd.

I'm not saying he should step aside but like Miyamoto there comes a time where you need to delegate mentor and groom successors,btw Zelda seems to be doing well and in Bethesda's case the over reliance on a few key people sees some of their prime IPs languishing and MS and Bethesda need to address that problem because at the end of the day it isn't good from a production pipeline or roi sense to have some of your biggest games sitting in a queue.