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xboxgreen on 11 July 2025
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RolStoppable said:
Imaginedvl said:

Like what? Being able to use the library they spent so much money while buying into the Play Station ecosystem on any new Xbox console? Cause that's definitely 90% of the issue with this generation. Xbox could never have come back from the Xbox One debacle after that. 70% of the market was locked down, making people switch back to Xbox was almost impossible after that and Mattrick is 100% responsible for that as HE was the one leading the show, not Spencer.

 

Not to mention, Mattrick left by himself to go screw up another good company after that, he did not get fired (only some people on the internet speculated that...)

The ecosystem argument is nothing more than a convenient excuse for Spencer's failure in management. Do you know why? Because before the PS4 launched, Xbox fans talked about how Microsoft had locked down the USA due to the Xbox 360's significant lead over the PS3 and the ecosystem argument. But it turned out that the ecosystem didn't matter.

And let's not forget that Nintendo went from losing badly with the Wii U to win the following generation while having no ecosystem whatsoever carry over from the Wii U and 3DS to Switch. How did Nintendo pull this off? They fixed the hardware and released great games on a consistent basis. Spencer only fixed the hardware side for Xbox with Series, but the software side was full of failure and disappointment and that is what can be called to account for 90% of the issue with this generation; most of the rest is the decision to strip the Xbox console business of exclusive games. What Spencer has created is a completely redundant box in the console market and he hammered the final nail in the coffin with his decision to release Microsoft games on the PS5.

If Mattrick didn't get fired as you say, that only makes things look a lot worse for Xbox management decisions. What you are saying is that they would have kept him if he hadn't left on his own.

The 8th generation is far different than the 7th generation in terms of games. Digital libraries and GAAS became the norm in the 8th generation and a lot of people didn't want to give up their game libraries they bought. That is why a lot of people said losing the 8th generation was the worse generation to lose. Playstation and Xbox bread and butter are third party games. Their exclusive don't even chart that well in comparison (DS 2 for example sold only 1.5 million). According to newzoo, there isn't even a first party exclusive in the top 20 most played games.

Source 
Xbox : https://newzoo.com/resources/rankings/top-xbox-games-series-s-x-global

Playstation: https://newzoo.com/resources/rankings/top-ps5-games



Nintendo isn't competing against Playstation or Xbox because hardly anyone buys a Switch for third party games.

Microsoft strategy is a sound one to put all their game on all platforms and turn Xbox into a console/pc hybrid. Microsoft's future is secured because all the acquisitions they were able to make under Phil Spencer (Minecraft, COD, Bethesda RPGs, WoW, and more). That is why Phil Spencer is a great leader in my opinion.