Phil Spencer gives his first impressions on Nintendo Switch

The head of the Xbox brand, Phil Spencer, wanted to give his impressions on the new machine of Nintendo.

[DemonChicken]

Nintrendo: "We announce that we will now start charging our fans to use multiplayer"
Phil Spencer: "You are welcome Nintendo"

[tyasia0]

Gamers: F you!

[UgoGalimbertti]

Will they give anything back? Like Live and Psn, the free games / deals. Because, I mean, 12 games a year might be a lot for them, unless they embrace indies

[DemonChicken]

One free game a month (SNES or NES) and expires at the end of the month, price unannounced - value already sounds shit.

I am in the UK and the switch is already expensive as it is plus already paying for multiple subscriptions. Well looking forward to seeing Nintendo charging for online play in the future for their handhelds too.

Just because one company started doing it (plus they also had ads on top) doesn't mean it right to do it. Glad some gamers or people disagreeing rather vote for their favorite company than their wallets!

[XanderZane]

You'll get 1 free (NES or SNES) game for the month, but you don't get to keep it. After the month is over, you can't play it anymore. Will have to uninstall it. Nintendo is greedy and stingy.

[NeoGamer232]

Charging for online gameplay was always inevitable.

You cannot continue to run an online gaming network for free forever.

It costs companies literally hundreds of millions of dollars per year to keep these networks up, continually modernize them, and keep them as secure as possible. They can't just sweep that money under the carpet as a free service. The reason Nintendo is now charging is that it needs to fund the expansion of their online gaming service and this is the only way to do it.

[tyasia0]

That's B.S. The networks could easily pay for themselves from the revenue from game sales and advertisements. Steam, EA Origin, Uplay ect. are all free on PC. Microsoft was just greedy and realized console gamers (like you) were naive.

[Derceto]

lol Hundred of millions per year. ROFL Sure, maybe collectively in the entire gaming industry.

It's called operating cost of your business. The problem with this new generation of morons, is that they are happy to take on the operating costs of every company because the company says it's necessary.

What's next? Companies gonna charge monthly for people to pay for their cafeteria and cleaning staff too?

[Muzikguy]

I don't believe this at all and I certainly don't believe it's anything like "hundreds of millions of dollars per year" to keep up online networks. My guess is that it's actually quite cheap to do and it's masked with the whole "it costs money to upkeep" idea so companies can roll in some extra cash. Operating costs should never be pushed onto the end user. That's part of business.

[Firebird360]

That's cool and all but the problem is as of now, Nintendo doesn't have a online gaming network. Wiiu online was laughable at best. Nintendo is not psn or Xbox live. And don't even get me started on needing a smartphone to setup online play and voice chat... what in the actual F...!

[Muzikguy]

"In a twist and a first for the industry, we're pleased to announce that you'll be able to use your smartphone to party chat. No, we don't think that it's backwards"

[XanderZane]

Still don't know why Nintend thinks we should pay them for their terrible online service. Wasn't SSBB a mess online? Splatoon was good. Still, Nintendo doesn't offer enough for gamers to have to pay for it. Unless it's $5 a year, they can forget it.

[PistolsAtDawn]

They actually more so copied PSN than XBL....XBL at least invested in Dedicated servers to be used for gaming and not behind a secondary paid service. PSN started charging without upgrading their network at all....which is what Nintendo appears to be doing.

[DashArrivals]

You can't trust Phil Spencer. I never trust anything he says.

[zidane1341]

But yet Im sure you trust anything Sony says

[SirBradders]

I'm starting to get sick of the Spencer said articles. Please stop approving this junk, we don't get this crap from Sony and Nintendo all the time.

[Tussin187]

Get off of Twitter. It's like that other guy with funny hair thats on there on all the time...Can't think of his name...hmmm

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[Ark_]

http://trumpdonald.org/

[SirBradders]

I'm not on ot I'm on bout n4g.

[Irishguy95]

We used to. From Reggie at some point and a few other wankers from Sony. All of them just BS marketers

[Featuring_Dante]

that is SO inappropriate. reported!

[SegaGamer]

The guy can't seem to say anything without people making a big deal out of it. People are obsessed.

[SirBradders]

I wonder who, fanboys?

[PistolsAtDawn]

Just cause you don't like something doesn't mean you have to visit the page and try to get it silenced. Just move on.

People ask Phil questions all the time and he engages with the audience, MOST would suggest that is great in a leader of a massive gaming company. If it were the opposite and he never wrote back but Sony did...Something tells me you'd be spinning it as a great thing for Sony and MS acting too high and mighty. I've never seen anyone here that is complaining right now, complain when Neil Druckmann or Mark Cerny has something to say (even when it's about something MS related that they don't have the inside knowledge about). Only a fool complains about too many options to gain knowledge.

@Bradders below ..."I wonder who, fanboys?"

[SirBradders]

Never assume because you'll make an ass out of me and you bro.

[Moonman]

Yeah because Odyssey and Seasons of Heaven will be better than Sea Of Thieves. ;p Zelda will be better than a vaporware Fable. I really don't blame him for being excited. ;p

[BLKxSEPTEMBER]

Zelda will most likely be better than what Sony or MS has to offer this year period. Let's not act like Zelda can only topple MS games...

[trooper_]

A game we've barely heard anything about?

[BLKxSEPTEMBER]

Barley heard anything about? Are you kidding me? There are hours and hours of gameplay on YouTube of Zelda and it's ZELDA!!! It's like 30 years old so exactly how much info do you need for a Zelda game? You must be like 12 or something to make such a silly comment.

[AmUnRa]

So Zelda will top games like, Horizon? And all the other games on the PS4?
You Nintendofans are delusional and not for real.

[Derceto]

Spencer is a silver tongued marketer. He knows how to sway mindless people with certain little actions and words, over long periods of time, and win their favour. This obviously does not favour the Xbox market directly, it simply makes him appear "classy" when in reality, he likely isn't, and this indirectly helps the Xbox name. He's a business competitor. You can bet your a** he likes to watch the competition flop.

I'm guessing the truth is more of a sigh of relief that they won't have to compete with Nintendo's hilariously crappy system. They're already getting their a** handed to them by Sony, he has to be more than happy Switch is garbage. Only in a perfect world would everyone speak the truth though. You certainly will never get the truth from Phil Spencer, because he's not caveman stupid.

[jznrpg]

Yo Phil, worry about Xbox, it's sinking

[lastking95]

Money and sales say otherwise. Biggest month EVER!= sinking? 😂 majority share of $3 billion revenue off paid console online subs.= sinking?

1 cancelled game and a lineup you personally not liking is 0 proof it's sinking maam lol.

[thatguyhayat]

Is there going to be an article where the man eats? When he takes a doo di? On serious note he needs to just stop and pull off the greatest E3 ever in microsoft history

[Lennoxb63]

If he did that it still wouldn't matter or change much. It's cool to hate whatever MS does judging by the agree/disagree ratio on any comment that's pro MS.

@Liqu1d @BlackTar187
I'm playing the victim for stating a fact?

[Liqu1d]

Stop acting like a victim please.

[BlackTar187]

Lennox stop playing the lame victim Card, put on your big boy pants.

[UCForce]

It's not stating fact. It's about MS facing major issues with first party exclusive. And they handle it poorly.

[rainslacker]

Screw the fan boy war, and this false notion that somehow people are unfairly criticizing MS. I want MS to show me why I should care about that x1 I brought, so yes, they have to pull off one heck of an E3. Maybe not the best in MS history, but something damn good.

If you want to act like MS is being unfairly attacked, more power to you, but I prefer to pressure them into getting their sh*t together and releasing some games that interest me.

Their line up this year is pathetic. Last year was barely serviceable.

I'm happy he's excited for Switch. I think it looked OK. Now that Spencer and I agree, he can tell me why we should feel the same way about the X1, because like the Switch, I'd love to see what kind of new game ideas can come from this new Scorpio of theirs....or better yet, the X1 they launched the generation with....because there haven't really been that many.

[starchild]

That would be true if the people criticizing had a track record of being fair, rational people, but that isn't the case. The majority of them for years have shown a very clear pattern of consistently hyping only one platform and attacking all others.

[Xavy]

never gona happend, look at him lol the dude should work for twitter :D

[Xavy]

lol

[bleedsoe9mm]

the salt that phil spencer is a gamer and cares about gaming is pretty delicious

[hirobrotagonist]

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[Shakengandulf]

I don't care what Phil thinks but apparently i do care because i posted it here.
Idiots logic.

[zerocarnage]

Look I own n Xbox, so in my eyes Phil needs to be caring about Xbox more than what he's doing about everything bloody else. It seems as though Phil in my eyes just wants to talk, I want to see a good line up this year and a turn around, more exclusives. I've enjoyed the service Xbox has put out but it needs exclusives and Jap games. Phil needs to be more concerned about Xbox and less concerned about other stuff that's for sure. I want to see less halo, cod, gears and all the rest that 3 n more years ago in my mind went stale for me. I will give Sony props they got it rite here with exclusive and Nintendo have for even longer, so why can't Microsoft get on board with it. Take some risks ms and that is why I think scalebound was worth it and the risk should of been given the chance.

[BIGBOSS08]

Is Phil Spencer going to give his impressions of his breakfast tomorrow morning?

[Elda]

Didn't even read what he posted,does folks really care what his thoughts were? Because of what he thinks will folks let that be their deciding factor to buy a Switch or not...smh.

[vegasgamerdawg]

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