Sometimes from members of the press, definitely from members of the community
You mean the shill press like Jez Corden and Destin, who spin FUD attacking PlayStation in the name of the console brand you head? You mean members of the community like Crapdealer and Colteastwood who do the same regularly, let alone other rabid fanboys?
Always read between the lines when Phil Spencer is speaking. The more he talks, the more of a passive-aggressive tone it seems like takes. There were shades of that in the interview with him and Matt Booty talking to Jeff, Lucy & that other dude.
He seems to virtue-signal about not wanting to compete by traditional means, but he works for a company that grew by competing (and monopolizing its share of competition) through those same means, often squeezing other smaller competitors out of the market space. Which to an extent all companies have done, including Sony, but Microsoft are an exception in the degree of anticompetitive tactics they used historically to get to where they are today. Xbox is a beneficiary of that; when you look into the motivations for the division's creation they are founded explicitly on the concept of traditional competition and squeezing out direct competitors, specifically Sony PlayStation.
When I see statements like this paired with actual actions the division makes such as looking to acquire more 3P publishers (cutting off the total number of independent 3P publishers on the market a competitor like Sony can actually work with directly, which incidentally hurts PlayStation customers), and the statements they've made to get regulatory approval for the ABK deal, how various Xbox executives openly associate with console warriors who basically want to reduce PlayStation to 3rd place to "win the console war", etc...
...quite honestly Phils' words are worth less than a penny. Let your actions do the talking, not your mouth.
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