[Kotaku] It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass

[John Elden Ring]

Since 2014, Spencer has been the main person at Xbox’s helm. While his biggest supporters might want to blame the economy, PlayStation, or regulators, at the end of the day, he’s making calls that aren’t helping his staff or gamers. Sure, his Game Pass creation and the push to expand it have been rightfully applauded by many. It was a genuine sea change for the industry and did indeed bring more games to more people. But beyond that one big victory, the rest of Spencer’s run as Xbox’s top boss has been a series of layoffs, delays, apologies, poor sales, and mergers meant to feed Game Pass, but which instead have seemingly cost a lot of people their jobs.

 

[Sircaw]

@JAHGamer, you frequent Kotaku, give us a complete breakdown.

Plus they are openly admitting to giving him a pass, Great site.

 

[Yuniac]

@JAHGamer, you frequent Kotaku, give us a complete breakdown.

Plus they are openly admitting to giving him a pass, Great site.

Absolute Kotaku moment. Who in the world is giving Phil a pass?

 

[BroodCorp]

He is the president so you’d be right to assign blame to him, but how much of it is on Microsoft proper?

 

[ethomaz]

He already has Gamepass...

 

[Old Gamer]

I stopped giving Kotaku a second of my time ages ago...

 

[Shadow2027]

He is the president so you’d be right to assign blame to him, but how much of it is on Microsoft proper?

Fair point. Feels like they kept given xbox more rope to hang themselves with. Gamepass(destroying game purchase 1st/3rd party) 6 obscure and random team purchases without proper connection to teams, Zenimax, and now ABK without proper plans, logistics, financial data. Only thought was if they buy everything, everyone will naturally come to xbox and these companies will stay where they were when bought.

 

[reziel]

It's not just him though Matt Booty is a problem as well.

 

[Sloane_Ranger]

Gamepass = “One Big Victory” WTF are they smoking?