Microsoft's Phil Spencer responds to user-sent questions about the Xbox One, providing the following defense for cloud processing (one of Xbox One's more-touted USPs).
The Microsoft Gaming CEO wants consoles to be more like PCs.
This is actually an interesting proposition.
Apple is currently facing some legislation issues for exactly that.
Since they restricted me from commenting on the last major article I was gonna say Phil wants multiple store fronts on their console. Which would give the console more games, options and different ways to buy and consume.
He talked about a handheld
Expansion and meeting where Gen Z wants to take their games where ever, download somewhere and go and connect with their friends.
"This notion that Xbox can only be this one device that plugs into a television isn’t something we see in the Gen Z research. Because nothing else is like that for them,” he said.
“Some of them will have an iPhone, some will have an Android, but all the games and everything is the same. I can still get to TikTok on both of them, at least for now.
“All of their stuff is available wherever they want. So for Xbox, our brand pivot — as we attract and maintain relevance with a younger audience — is ‘Xbox is a place where I can find the great games I want to.’”
How is plus this any different than what they've been doing? They're targeting Gen not millennial and definitely not Gen X as they're old and are car from the demo. It's Z, instant access, multiple devices, f2p (sadly)
More lies, Phil you don't care about gamers.
You want Epic on xbox because no one buys games on your platform so you have nothing to lose, and your long term goal is to force other platforms to accept other stores on their platforms including yours, lowering their own revenue while you subsidize your own xbox business until all your competition can no longer maintain themselves.
I have said from the beginning the FTC is fighting the wrong fight, instead of trying to block Microsoft from buying publishers what they need to do is force Microsoft to split up and divest its hardware and it's cloud business from it's PC software (windows) business.
Countries have laws that prevent people from dumping cheap grain or iron ect. into markets and making it so other companies can't compete, this is exactly what Microsoft is trying to do, flood the market with cheap games and hardware until no one else can compete.
Of course he would, this would get Xbox games tbag publishers wouldn't ever consider Xbox for, but, it would also get him PlayStation games, he wants sore badly, because PlayStation publishes their games to Epic Games store so, he's trying to find work arounds to get games devs don't want to publish on Xbox. Read what Euro game devs are saying about Xbox, they're getting ready to abandon it and Game Pass is showing the truth, it's flopping there too. Euros are smart, they don't want any of it..These are Phil's final attempts to see what he can do to stay relevant in the hardware market, he's desperate here, big time but this is a desperate attempt and a way to try and land games publishers don't trust Xbox with, he's a deceitful one, but it's only going to make publishers more mad because now you're insulting them and trying to pull the wool over them. By their honor they're seeing this and you'd find how honorable they are. This is also showing just how well Game Pass is really doing. (It's not). He wants Steak for the same reason. Microsoft may as well go back to making and selling PCs at this point. Phil, gave it, dude. Ya failed
Phil Spencer is ushering in a new age for the Xbox platform, one that could be appropriately titled ‘The Multi-Platform Age Of Xbox.’ It’s begun with four games coming to PlayStation and Nintendo consoles, and if recent reports are true, there’s many more to come.
Spencer dug a bit into why he’s leading Xbox in this new direction, and how part of this change comes from Gen Z buying habits, and the lack of growth in the console market.
Lmao
“It’s not our fault Xbox fans, we have no choice, blame yourselves or the young”
I thought he said a while back it was because of AAA budgets being so bloated or something
Apparently sea of theives was a huge successful on PS so I guessed the board has seen dollar signs and that small batch of games will probably Expand
Polygon spoke with Spencer during the annual Game Developers Conference, and though the conversation ranged from the possibility of a handheld console to the trouble with closed platforms, one theme was inescapable: What the hell is going on with the games industry? And how will video game makers and publishers — Xbox included — get out of it?
“You can’t succeed unless you draw in customers from other publishers and other platforms. And because you’re not finding new customers with the games that you’re building, everybody’s kind of fighting over the same-size pie.”
People are going to twist this into him saying that Sony is bad for exclusives but what he is really saying... what he is trying to shout from the hills to the Xbox faithful, is that Xbox can not remain exclusive if you want them to ever take risks or make big games again. The back and forth game the PR team plays with the fanatics has to stop. Spencer doesn't know what Sony or Nintendo is going to do , but he is taking the Xbox games and putting them everywhere and thats how its gonna be. Going multiplat is the only way to GROW. Full stop that is what he is saying.
I don't think Phil Spencer is the one you want to ask this question. Are you sure he wasn't the one who asked it?
I won't bash Phil as much as I think he and his leadership team deserve, however, the data is showing the XBOX WW sales are nearly life support levels. Redfall failed - Star Field decent. What about those issues?!
Nothing is really wrong with the industry. More like: what the hell are video game makers doing? I’ve very rarely have I seen the disconnect between what gamers want to play, and what makers are trying to sell this wide.
What's the point on invest $500 on a ecosystem, that you will have on another console plus the other console exclusives. Why this made sense for Phil, get new customer but losing the old ones.
This is why the cloud is such BS. MS suggest the cloud will make graphical performance better and make up for any difference with PC, PS4, but then when they talk specifics its always BS tiny things like leaderboards and gamerscore than are enhanced by the cloud, things that are already possible and working fine.
Omg. Yet another whiner who thinks ms should copy Sony..
Buy a damn ps4 then! They act like they don't want what Sony offers.. But need ms to do the same.. Then they'll be happy.. Right.. Lol
I'd like to point out a blatant fact here.. Sony is in dire financial troubles while ms makes billions and billions a year..
Looks like doing their own thing works well for them.. And Sony fans should stop worrying about ms and start supporting sony
So we can just download the cloud :p like with the drivertars in Forza 5.
I think most people are starting to understand by now that cloud tech will not make games more visual stunning.
But they can enhance even a singleplayer game. Let's take The Witcher 3 that is coming to next gen consoles.
It's a big living world and with cloud tech that world can live on and evolve even while you are not playing. So when you turn on you XBO again, everything is not as it was when you stopped playing.
Let's continue to play with the idea of The Witcher 3 using cloud tech.
Let's say that you could leave notes, carve hints on trees or rocks for people in your friends list. With the cloud this is uploaded and shared to every friend you have that have The Witcher 3.
It will automatically upload and download content, even when the XBO is turned of.
Let's take on a different scenario and a different game. Imagine playing Forza 5 and with the plans to upload AI to your game. A race offline will never be the same as the AI drivers are evolving and growing.
Imagine playing a FPS singleplayer game where all the enemy in the game is driven by AI downloaded from how other players play the game...suddenly a play trough of a game is never the same as the AI evolves and change.
These are some possibilities the cloud can do for gaming.
The funny thing is if sony does announce an ONLINE service like that of the xbox ones cloud, fanboys on this site would start talking about how evenly matched both consoles are in that regards and how awesome the ps4 cloud is over that of the xbox one. i realised the arrogance of many fan boys here has become like an infectious terminal sickness. smh. they will say and agree to anything just to bash the xbox one....