Huh, a thread that delivers the goods for a change.

So was this created in the depths of visioneck by ethomaz?

It would have had even shittier English if it did.

Much like most political leaders, there's likely a hard limit on what Phil Spencer himself can impact within the greater context of MS as a massive company, so it makes sense to me that a lot of his job comes down to appearances and the like. It's mostly comes across as hollow, but at least I can believe that he's legitimately trying to steer the department into a games-centric direction as opposed to what we had before with Don Mattrick, who's influence on the brand ultimately led to me switching to Playstation as my main gaming base.

Thinking about it though, that hollowness does speak to a greater tonal issue I've had with Microsoft's marketing for a few years. A lot of their products and services lately are attempts (sometimes failed, other times successful) at aping something from a clear industry leader, and in turn their ads just come off as so cloying, manipulative, and self-righteous. The said could be said of a lot of advertising of course, but I still remember the "Scroogled" Bing campaign, a series of pretty annoying Windows phone ads that really seemed like they were speaking down to people, and that ridiculous attempt at misrepresenting the 4K features of the Xbox One S when it first came out. Am I the only one who's been rubbed the wrong way by MS marketing lately?

Wish Sony and Nintendo had someone as vocal and active as the XBoss :)

You are really asking for trouble with this post. Good luck.

Wow this is actually a really good post. Sure, it is flaming Phil spencer, but it's not overly mean and it's pretty hilarious. It's also totally true.

On the other hand, I didn't know you count to 6 as 1,2,3,3,4,5,6.

I don’t see why. If so, then what does that say about the thread? 

Papa Phil is passionate about gaming and he shares a lot. I would just enjoy someone like that from the other two as well. At least in the US, there doesn’t seem to be someone as engaging with fans and open in interviews. It’s like Kenny K but instead of batshit insane tech stuff he just talks about the industry.

Considering that before Phil they had a lot more exclusives (X360 and start of X1), do you really prefer his direction?

So you wished that Sony and Nintendo were more about talking and less about doing?

Jesus christ?!?! was there a hack at Microsoft? how did you get access to the Phil Flowchart?