Xbox's Phil Spencer (@xboxp3) is about to take the stage at Wall Street Journal's Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, CA.
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) October 26, 2022
He will be speaking for 30 minutes about "Beyond Xbox: The Future of Video Games at Microsoft" pic.twitter.com/Y44AwYNwNj
Phil Spencer on Xbox Keystone ?
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 26, 2022
"Keystone was something that we were incubating internally. Late spring we pivoted to working with Samsung. I still have the prototype... will we do a streaming device at some point? I expect we will, but it's years away"https://t.co/K4P2XVOxZA pic.twitter.com/X0K3GlowMX
Phil Spencer (@xboxp3) at WSJ live on plans for Xbox Mobile store:
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 26, 2022
"If you take a long term bet that we will be able to get access to players... on Android and iOS, we want to be in position with... a storefront to take advantage of it."https://t.co/K7ZSFJadim
"This opportunity is really about mobile for us. When you think about 3 billion people playing video games, there's only about 200 million households on console."
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 26, 2022
2/2
That's as clear as you can get, it'll stay on PlayStation, it may even come to Switch, they care more about filling their mobile gap.
Interview starts by talking about the Activision acquisition. "I truly believe with every product that we ship, we ship our culture," @XboxP3 says. "Ensuring that teams that are part of Xbox feel safe feel heard feel included, is critical" https://t.co/01QtUDRQL9
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
Spencer adds, "There's no doubt Microsoft and his role in the tech industry. We're a large tech company. And I do think that this the discussion around an acquisition of this size is warranted."
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
Still expects deal to be approved.
Call of Duty, he says, is like Minecraft. "When we acquired it was on I think 12 platforms and now it's on like 22 platforms. Our intent is to treat Call of Duty very similar to the way we've treated Minecraft."
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
He notes, though that Apple's power is hard to ignore.
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
"It just shows the market power a company has if the result of you complaining about it is you get kind of you get thrown out of the store," Spencer says. Adds that Xbox Cloud going through the web browser isn't ideal
Ok, sure, but what about the Keystone streaming device?
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
(Which I've written about on and off for over a decade: https://t.co/bQ2fX9XZWI)
Spencer says given up on set-top-box (for now), instead focused on building app for places like Samsung TVs (see: https://t.co/p9Uwm0hxh6)
"We've held price on our console, we've held price on games for us and our subscription. I don't think we'll be able to do that forever. I do think at some point we'll have to raise some prices on certain things." Says it was important though to maintain prices this holiday.
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
"Metaverse is..." question -- Spencer says it's "a poorly built video game." (Says he'll probably get in trouble for saying that.)
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
"Building a metaverse that looks like a meeting room, I just find it's not where I want to spend most of my time"
Says it's "early early stages"
NFTs -- why are gamers all "No F-ing Thanks"?
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
"I often find that technologists start with what the technology is, how it was built, why we're so proud of how it was built," he says. In gaming, he says, it's about how this tech makes their life better.
He notes that while some apps have ways to move UGC and whatnot between platforms, there isn't really a system for changing entitlement or "willing" rights to someone. Those things need to be figured out, he says.
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
Mobile, Spencer says, "is definitely a hole for us."
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
"Our teams need to reflect the customers that we aspire to earn through our products," he says. "That's not just what we look like but what we sound like in our lived experiences."
Notes that mobile games are huge in Lagos
"I just often think about us as stewards of that IP not really owners of that IP because it really is a franchise that's owned by the people who play, and their love for it."
— Ian Sherr (@iansherr) October 26, 2022
Says he'll put it in the queue. @saraheneedleman thanks Mr. Sssssspencer for doing that.
“Phil Spencer says CoD will be treated like Minecraft and will additionally include Switch releases in the future”
“YOU’RE TAKING COD AWAY FROM US!!!!” Hardcore PS fans probably
Wait, so not only is AoE DE not getting any love in forms of updates and new content, but content that the first AoE is all about (ancient history) is getting ported to AoE 2 DE?!? 
I guess that would explain the engine change.
EDIT: I didn't know that AoE DE was built on top of the original games engine from 1997 lol. This is probably for the best then.
Did you catch the news yesterday? Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is getting another DLC, Return of Rome!
— Age of Empires (@AgeOfEmpires) October 26, 2022
Return to your roots and visit times past with #AgeofEmpiresDE content, playable in #AgeofEmpiresIIDE. Keep an eye out for more details in the future! #AoE25 pic.twitter.com/Mmwz2nh3m0
Been playing more and more Persona 5. Still very fun but I wanna talk a little more about the flaws I've encountered.
1) Silent protagonist. I think this is a pretty bad choice. The biggest issue so far I've seen with this is when it comes to the anime cutscenes. It just doesn't work there at all. Imagine creating a whole anime season with a silent protagonist. That would be awful.
Then you have these scenes where people are directly talking to you and you have to answer. 80% of the time you get two or three answers to choose from that are pretty much identical. Don't let me decide something when there is nothing to decide. You don't even give me the illusion that I could steer the events to my liking (the Telltale games come in mind...).
2) Time management. I always look forward deciding what to do with my time but there are sooo many scripted events that completely mess with my schedule. Then when that scripted scene is over and time has passed I will usually be automatically transported to the cafe and Morgana either doesn't let me out of the cafe or even worse she will straight up say that I'm too tired to do anything and I should go to bed.
I got a job at the convenience store where I got extra points for attributes on a day with a "7" in it. So I went there on the 27th of April and wanted to repeat that on the 7th of May and guess what happened. On both May 7th and 17th there were scripted events that stopped me from getting the extra points. Maybe it will work on the 27th of May??? Idk.
Also why the fuck can't I do more things on a Sunday when there's no school? "Daytime" is just as long as the "After School" time period and you will always skip "Morning" for some reason. Actually, school days are better than Sundays because there's at least a (low) chance of getting a seat on the subway and reading a book.
3) Minor issue but the timing of the tutorial messages are sometimes off. For example I went into Mementos and worked my way through various levels when I got a tutorial message about me being able to crack down some weak walls. No shit Sherlock, I literally had to break walls to get to the lower levels to even receive this message. Obviously I figured that already out so maybe display the tutorial message earlier?
What a tease
fun story: there was art from our next game in this through dozens of eyes reviewing it, no one noticed it until yesterday afternoon
— inXile entertainment (@inXile) October 26, 2022
you almost got a sick leak
better luck next time
| gtotheunit91 said: What a tease
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— inXile entertainment (@inXile) October 26, 2022
Lol.
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