SWORDF1SH knows. He has a feeling about it.

Like I said, alternative motives. And that's not really saying something nice about Uncharted, the 'i'm sure' part makes itsounds like he's reluctantly agreeing with somebody. And it would be nice to add a little context to that tweet by showing what he replied to.

Believe it or not I liked Spencer when he first became boss at Xbox. But over the years I came to believe he's a bit slimey and two faced. 

So you'll just have to accept what I believe and a few others in this thread believe.

It's called an opinion. Get over it! Why are you getting so offended? 

I don't see why anyone would assume that any of these guys are BSing when they say nice stuff about other companies in the industry. Many of them are gamers. Just like many of us, they play games on multiple platforms. There's no reason to think that they suddenly change when they go to work for one of these companies.

No, it makes it sound like he hadn't played the game yet, because it wasn't out.

Spencer is fine.

And how are you aware of these motives?

Here:

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and believe you when you say you "liked Spencer when he first became boss at Xbox".

I only wish you'd extend the same courtesy to Phil when he compliments the competition.

Offended? I'm amused, actually.

You don't see ANY reason?  They are ONLY gamers, or that over-rides any other interests they have?
Forced Kinect was "gamer"?   Always Online was "gamer"?  Power of The Cloud BS was "gamer"?
I'm not saying you can't choose to believe them in this case, but there is a history of BS and deception.
This isn't unique to MS.  Look at Hello Games.  Or a multitude of other cases in industry.  Just being real here.

Breaking News: Yoshi says something nice.

You forgot to add that he's adorable.

Until their "cosying up" becomes anything more than "yeah I'd love to see Nintendo games on our consoles", it's nothing. Phil Spencer saying nice things about the competetion doesn't mean Microsoft are "cosying up" with Nintendo in hopes of trying to get their content on their platform (which would be weird, because MS have started publishing their content outside of their platform). Just like Shuhei Yoshida saying nice things about the Switch as you can see in this thread doesn't mean Sony is trying to cozy up with Nintendo to get their content on their platform. Even though they obviously would love to, because who wouldn't love to get more quality games on their own platform. If Nintendo for some reason actually were to decide to stop making their own hardware, they would either a) go mobile only or b) become a third party multi-plat publisher.