Ten years ago on March 31, 2014, then-Xbox Game Studios boss Phil Spencer was named Head of Xbox. And he inherited quite a mess. You all know the story; there’s no need to beat the horse corpse for the ten-thousandth time. The brand was in disarray after what can, without hyperbole, be called a pretty disastrous launch of the Xbox One. So how far has Xbox come under Spencer’s tenure? And where’s it going from here? Let’s look back and then look forward.
The article makes a strong argument for Spencer’s success as the head of Xbox and I’m hard pressed to disagree. Xbox game pass was and is a stroke of brilliance and it truly is one of the first things you think of when you think of Xbox. Game Pass and Microsoft’s aggressive acquisition strategies means that many of the of the best upcoming games in the next decade will likely be exclusive to Xbox and Windows. Sony has won this generation of the console wars but Xbox does look strong long term. I’m interested to see where it will head.
I didn’t down vote, but I’d assume that people on lemmy skew towards a dislike of centralised corporate structures, especially when they’re pushing a subscription service in place of game ownership, and so they’re not so much disagreeing with you as they are simply upset by what you’re saying. Of course, I may be wrong on that.
Personally I think it could go either way, I think their aquisitions have not yielded the return that they may have hoped for, and I really hope that gamepass fails, but it doesn’t seem like it will.
Que sera sera I suppose.
The article makes a strong argument for Spencer’s success as the head of Xbox and I’m hard pressed to disagree. Xbox game pass was and is a stroke of brilliance and it truly is one of the first things you think of when you think of Xbox. Game Pass and Microsoft’s aggressive acquisition strategies means that many of the of the best upcoming games in the next decade will likely be exclusive to Xbox and Windows. Sony has won this generation of the console wars but Xbox does look strong long term. I’m interested to see where it will head.
I didn’t down vote, but I’d assume that people on lemmy skew towards a dislike of centralised corporate structures, especially when they’re pushing a subscription service in place of game ownership, and so they’re not so much disagreeing with you as they are simply upset by what you’re saying. Of course, I may be wrong on that. Personally I think it could go either way, I think their aquisitions have not yielded the return that they may have hoped for, and I really hope that gamepass fails, but it doesn’t seem like it will. Que sera sera I suppose.