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Machiavellian on 11 July 2025
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xboxgreen said:
VAMatt said:

I can't believe anybody is voting Phil Spencer. That doesn't even make sense. Console sales have remained steady under his leadership, while the XBox business overall has grown massively.

Xbox series consoles are tracking behind Xbox one in same time frame. I don't think GTA6 will be enough to overcome that. However, I think traditional consoles aren't selling as well as it did before. PC gaming is taking a lot of sales from consoles.

Phil Spencer is great because the value he brought with game pass and all of the acquisitions he was able to complete.
I just wish Microsoft will get rid of the cost for Xbox live and make xbox game pass same price as PC game pass. 

The Series consoles were never going to track better than Xbox One because Sony owned the last gen by a huge margin.  Not only that but Sony didn't make any mistakes, they secured multiple exclusives while MS were still trying to get something decent to market.  GP basically saved Xbox from crashing, but the real issue was the Xbox One.  The momentum MS had coming into the Xbox One era was actually pretty good even with the issues with the RROD.  The fact that the Xbox one was more expensive, less powerful and had a peripheral that the majority of the user base did not want was crippling.

At the end of the day, Sony had the games, the cheaper system and the library and nothing short of Sony screwing up big time would MS ever even see the light of day.  Once you get to a certain userbase, people will buy the system their friends play on and it becomes a domino effect.