Xbox fans keep repeating this and it's cringe. Right now the ONLY thing keeping MS from dominating the gaming space is Sony (after their own incompetence). So for them to say that, it's only a way to deflect from their failure to compete with Sony for over 20 years now.
“ Spencer wants the company to remain gamer-focused with any price increases. Ami Silverman, who at the time was head of Microsoft’s consumer sales and marketing, responds with “all good points, let’s be gamer obsessed here as we have not gotten out of the woods... we know this could be our time to win fans vs lose being a follower.”
You know, I knew that Spencers “for the gamers” talk was all PR bullshit and yet…I’m still surprised by this
Can't the same be said for all video game companies and/or companies with video games as one of it's main pillars ?
Ultimately, it's about making money. No one is in this for free, praise from gamers and consumers hardly matter if you're not selling and they're not buying.
The thing is out of the big 3 Phil is the one who tries to sell this image the most and is so over the top with it
He says one thing, contradicts himself a few months later
The gamer image is exactly why MS chose him after Don, literally, he was the only one who didn’t LOOK like a suit on the surface and that’s why he ramps up that “I’m just like you guys” image to try and lure people in with his promises
The others don’t do that, I mean Jim Ryan is an arsehole but he doesn’t go on like Spencer does he, Jim knows what he is.
phil spencer is the worst thing to happen to gaming and consolidation will kill all inovation and creativity, look at rare, look at halo, look at how many people say you can create what you want when your bought out
You’re joking right? I do call out Jim Ryan, he’s an asshole
You just choose what you want to see because calling someone a fanboy is better than actually debating them
I call both sides fairly as I can, I even get called negative over it but I don’t give a shit because being “negative” aka a realist these days is better than being a loyal lap dog.
How the hell are you all tweaked by this? Do you honestly believe in what these companies promote? It’s called competition and that never goes away. So you better know as much as possible about your competitors. Naive to think anything else.
And their hubris has massively backfired. Xbox Series is in a worse position now sales-wise than the disastrous launch of Xbox One, Microsoft has made owning an Xbox console utterly irrelevant.
The internal Microsoft email is very interesting. However, I am not sure to what extent the the CPU and GPU advantages that they believe the Series X has over the PS5 matters when the Series S is the base console? When considering the S to be the base and feature parity must be maintained, it essentially eliminates any perceived advantage since developers will not be able to take full advantage of the X architecture.
I don’t understand how this would get missed. Seems obvious from the start 🤷
Forget the S I’m not convinced the X is more powerful. On paper they both have pros and cons, in reality the PS5 out performs the X in every game and we’re going on 3 years now. Starfield is the Xbox game of their generation. That shows what the X is capable of ACCORDING TO MICROSOFT. Compare it to PS5 first party games and it’s a wash.
"we do have a clear performance advantage (12 v 10)"... "we expect that we'll have 30% advantage on GPU performance and a 25% memory bandwidth advantage" These guys are idiots. To them moar teraflops = better 🤣 And yet Ps5 still has the better looking exclusive games this generation, and their exclusive games have more innovative graphics options like 40 FPS VRR quality modes. Third party games are also usually neck and neck between XSX and Ps5. Where is that "clear performance advantage" again?
Hilarious that they say there not interested in competing with Sony, steam and Amazon / Apple are their real competitors.
Next thing they are heavily analyzing sony's moves and making plans accordingly.
So to the media they say one thing then do the exact opposite. We've been here before lads.
“ Spencer wants the company to remain gamer-focused with any price increases. Ami Silverman, who at the time was head of Microsoft’s consumer sales and marketing, responds with “all good points, let’s be gamer obsessed here as we have not gotten out of the woods... we know this could be our time to win fans vs lose being a follower.”
You know, I knew that Spencers “for the gamers” talk was all PR bullshit and yet…I’m still surprised by this
Just PR talk to lure gamers in
How the hell are you all tweaked by this? Do you honestly believe in what these companies promote? It’s called competition and that never goes away. So you better know as much as possible about your competitors. Naive to think anything else.
Like headless chickens....
And their hubris has massively backfired. Xbox Series is in a worse position now sales-wise than the disastrous launch of Xbox One, Microsoft has made owning an Xbox console utterly irrelevant.