Xbox's Phil Spencer considers PS5 and Nintendo Switch players part of the Xbox community

This is Spencer's mindset after the Activision Blizzard acquisition closed

[Vengeance1138]

What a horrifically toxic person, im sure in his mind Microsoft already acquired both Sony and Nintendo and they are all that's left in gaming.
Can't wait for 2027!

[darthv72]

so... people who express positivity are toxic in your view? That's basically what you are saying right now. I know its easier to hate but it takes real strength to remain positive in the face of negativity.

As for him living rent free in your head... that will be $9.99 now.

[Eonjay]

This comment proves my earlier comment. There is nothing wrong with you. I have surmised that you are a developer and you are not dumb but in order to claim to be 'down with the Xbox' YOU have to become toxic yourself. He did not say anything you are implying. That's a toxic lie. Spencer is not expressing positivity. THAT is a toxic lie. People are not supposed to be positive in the face of consolidation that will lead to a worse situation for all of us. Ignoring that is TOXIC.

[darthv72]

^^man i wish i were a developer. I'm just an average joe who tries to be upbeat and optimistic even when the chips are down.

[Petebloodyonion]

@Darthv72
The spirit of Orchard looms over you!

[fr0sty]

He sees the writing on the wall, and knows that Xbox GamePass will eventually appear on both Sony and Nintendo's systems.

[Gamingsince1981]

It has to get on ps and Nintendo or xbox is dead by 2027, that's why. Xbox NEEDS gamepass on everything or they are out of business in 2027.

[fr0sty]

I don't see why people are disagreeing, Phil said it himself that if GP subs don't dramatically increase by then, Xbox is toast. Logically, the only way to pull that off is for them to go third party, as they aren't just going to magically start selling a ton more consoles. Even a new exclusive Bethesda IP hasn't even started to turn things around for them. They have not far from 100 billion dollars to recoup from all these purchases, and their shareholders will be out for blood soon.

[Zeref]

Can't wait to have all those Sony exclusives on my Xbox and on GamePass when MS acquires them 🔥🔥🔥

[Shane Kim]

The possibility of GP ending up on PS is much higher.

[Gamingsince1981]

Lol Xbox is going to be only a publisher by 2027 they won't be buying playstation, they need playstation more than anything to survive 🤣 you are trolling or dumb take your pick. Xbox is done, welcome to the future where xbox is a publisher releasing games on everything and playstation and Nintendo carry on as usual.

[InUrFoxHole]

Lol... 95 likes... Emo

[GrmpyolGamer]

He lives rent free in your mind

[TheEroica]

You should probably cry more about your inner bias.

[itsmebryan]

@Vengeance
What happens in 2027?

[Vengeance1138]

Xbox exits the gaming industry as Phil said if they don't get over 100M subs on GamePass by then it's not worth staying.
This number ofc being impossible as GP only has 25M subs now.

[PhillyDonJawn]

Vengeance the courts showed Xbox is more profitable than PS. So that make no sense

[Gamingsince1981]

@phily

No it didn't 🤣 Mandela effect in action in your world huh, Sony breaking records month on month year on year , xbox "we are a publisher by 2027 because no one is buying gamepass" yeah sounds like it's going well over at xbox. You are a clown 🤡

[neutralgamer1992]

would we be happy if he had come out and said screw nintendo and playstation? so what the heck do we want? MS have the money to buy and publishers are willing to sell. We have cult like fanboys on this site who will defend their box and brand even if their brand is doing wrong by gamers. Until we mature as a community greed with continue to rule supreme

i am so glad i am now a PC gamer. This nonsense has to stop. I have multiple store fronts offering competetive pricing and the ability to use cheat codes in my single player games to enjoy without all the MT

[MrDead]

He wishes he had a community of gamers. I guess buying the market and banning gamers from games seems like a community for him, now everyone is as miserable as an Xbox owner

[crazyCoconuts]

Maybe he's foreshadowing a future where they're no longer making exclusive games... where the Xbox hardware is like... not as important?

[MrDead]

No longer making games? They never made games in the first place, thats how ms made the Xbox the least played platform. All they're doing now is buying up an industry and dictating who is and isn't allowed to play, gamers have got nothing from MSs deals except for less options for where to play and two publishers no longer competing.

[Godmars290]

MS has never seen Xbox hardware as important. Never.

It why they didn't buy vital parts for OG Xbox.
Why the 360 was rushed causing RRoD.
Why 1st edition XB1 was built around Kinect, and technically crippled as a result.
Its why they're talking more about streaming than Series X while not really talking about how Series S sells better. Is hindering the more powerful system.

Even when MS honestly tried making games, PC specs where more important than their own console. Alan Wake - that quantum game/TV I'm not bothering to recall - and that cop game - I'm also brain farting on - all where first shown on bleeding edge PC rigs, and subsequently failed to live up to first reveals for being built down to the consoles they should have been built for.

Phil/MS might be claiming a win because he bought an industry position Xbox has failed to earn, but if MS lives to type, then all that's going to lead to is disappointment and denial.

[crazyCoconuts]

@God, i couldn't disagree more. It wasn't until XB1 that MS started leaning into PC and cloud.
Up until then, getting you on Xbox hardware so you buy games via their platform was the ONLY business model that existed. Of course they saw their hardware as important. The OG Xbox had built-in ethernet and was quite a bit more powerful than it's rival PS2. The RROD wasn't on purpose in the 360. The Kinect was a hardware play to gain superiority in the way Nintendo did with their controllers. Now that they have pulled in PC and have expectations around Cloud, maybe they're pivoting their investments to a sector they think they can "win" in, but that's a relatively new concept.

[Abear21]

I believe they said it’s more about Gamepass on everything under the sun and that sub model, a possible future without consoles. Now they own most of the industry, crazy!

[italiangamer]

Does this guy ever shut up with this blatantly fake and cheesy attitude?!

[gold_drake]

ugh.
please dont.

[shinoff2183]

Phil's on hallucinations again

[Destiny1080]

the pads in the cell need replacing

[Plague-Doctor27]

I dunno if what hes saying is that crazy. Sony gamers have no confirmed first party games coming in 2024. They should feel right at home in the Xbox community

[Rockstar]

Lol

[Elda]

Or the other way to say it...the pads need replacing in his Soft Cell "Tainted Phil"

[ApocalypseShadow]

Just a pure bullshitter.

I won't be buying any games under their umbrella. Won't be streaming their games. I will not create any Microsoft game accounts. Won't be purchasing any subscriptions from them.

Being on another platform does not make any of us part of the Xbox community. Such a ridiculous individual.

[niiopi]

Second this. I choose to spend my money WISELY.

[Plague-Doctor27]

I for one would like to welcome Xbox players to the Playstation Community. They have access to MLB The Show after all

[ApocalypseShadow]

They only have access to the game because they kept bugging the MLB about Sony's game being on their system.

They didn't spend any of those BILLIONS.... MAKING their own got damn game. They shadily went behind Sony where Sony had no choice but to go multiplatform with it or lose the rights to make their own baseball game. Any other developer, including the 2 TRILLION dollar worth Microsoft, could have made their own game. Just pay the MLB the money for the license. It wasn't exclusive. Microsoft chose not to because they are shitty.

I don't care about that community or Microsoft. That community has allowed and supports, a shady company like Microsoft that chooses to not make games. Only take away from others like they did with these publisher purchases.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Phil is riding on the clouds rn.

[AdonisIsBeast]

If you look up the definition of “gaslighting” in the urban dictionary, you see a picture of Phil Spencer.

[CrimsonWing69]

Why does he do this sh*t?

Don’t do this fake “we’re a happy family” bullsh*t. Have some fight in you like you did with the Activision Blizzard acquisition. Start treating the competition as competition and start getting on their level with exclusives and actual decent releases.

I guess we’re moving the goalpost to 2024 for being the year, amirite?

[Eonjay]

From the perspective of Microsoft, most of their customers are NOT Xbox gamers. No other platform holder is in this predicament. Therefore they buy all of the most popular publishers and then claim that the games they bought make anyone who play them a part of the Xbox community.

[Lightning77]

Well they do have Hell Blade 2, Avowed, Flight Sim 2 and Stalker 2 in 2024.

[CrimsonWing69]

god, I’ve been waiting for Hellblade 2 for what feels like forever.

[Lightning77]

4 years for that damn game goin on 5.

Ridiculous if you ask me.

[Futureshark]

From the extremely low Xbox console sales compared to both Switch & PS5, plus the mediocrity of the MS first party output compared to both Sony and Nintendo, I think it's far more fair to say that Xbox players are more likely to now be members of the PS5 & Switch communities.

[DrDoomer]

dis mofoka cray

[Abear21]

How ironic when Xbox has zero must buy games on their console this gen. I barely consider Xbox part of this generation’s gaming landscape yet. Sure, I’ll buy an Xbox when there’s a reason to, but that hasn’t happened yet.

[Phoenix76]

Yeah OK Phil.... I'm gonna have to press X for doubt on that claim

[Profchaos]

Can he not and just focus on making Xbox games good

[jznrpg]

If you really did you wouldn’t buy multiplat publishers and stop the games that were being made for other platforms. But we all know Phil is full of crap and thinks gamers are stupid . I want nothing to do with Xbox

[Petebloodyonion]

It would be nice if the entire Interview was posted instead of a snippet for clickbait and flaming purposes.
Personally after reading " The WHOLE" interview MS is starting to heavily imply that they will go the full 3rd party road.
https://www.famitsu.com/new...

(Google translate isn't perfect but you get a good sense of the interview)

Now there's a whole section where the interviewer asks about the relation with Steam since MS released their game on a service that competes with the Xbox and Windows stores in that sense it gives more sense to Phil's initial statement about community.

[DickyD1226]

Thank you for finding the full interview. I didn't know it was part of a bigger interview. I will try and do better n the future.

[Petebloodyonion]

No blame on you pal the blame is on the author of the article who used part of the interview to create some clickbait.
Judging by the flames in the comment section, well he succeeded.

[MrBeatdown]

Hey, Phil's gotta get them numbers up somehow.

Does this mean he's treating some of the Xbox community as second class citizens when he cancels multiplatform projects for PlayStation?

[Agent75]

Weird company, Microsoft. Windows awful to use since XP, games on PC and Xbox, I’d can PC games to boost Xbox sales. Microsoft owned Minecraft on other consoles. Sony pulled Spider-Man off Xbox. The more you look into it, the more you see how dumb Microsoft are.

[Chevalier]

https://www.gameinformer.co...

You realize Xbox got offered exclusively any Marvel game and turned them down is the reason Spiderman is on Playstation exclusively right?!

[EvertonFC]

This guy is a right nob imo, he's completely delusional the way he thinks.

[PassNextquestion]

I guess everyone can live happily ever after now that they are all part of Xbox community and if you don't play any of the games xbox own they will be buying those games you do play next 😆

Maybe they will buy AMD next that way not only are Playstation fans part of the xbox community they will also be playing on xbox hardware 👀

[Plague-Doctor27]

My office computer has Edge as their default browser. Guess my job is now part of the Xbox Community

[DickyD1226]

I only buy AMD most of the time haha.

[Barlos]

He wishes they were! He'll try to buy the community next

[anast]

Put GP on PS and I will believe it.

[Plague-Doctor27]

They 100% would if they could. Sony and Nintendo would be crazy to allow it though. It'd be like Apple letting the Google Play Store on their phone

[SonyStyled]

I wonder if PlayStation also considers Nintendo and Xbox players part of the PlayStation community too, as PlayStation has 1st party titles on those platforms.

Sounds bizarre mirror imaged, but whatever works for Xbox

[Hofstaderman]

Theres a word in the Afrikaans language.....voetsek. Please look it up, Phil.

[ApocalypseShadow]

I learned a new word today.

[Hofstaderman]

I can teach you a few more that can best describe that ass that is Phil.

[Charlieboy333]

@ Hof How about 'hoer naaier' ?

[niiopi]

BAHAHA.. No. The Trump of gaming.

[Zenzuu]

Phil is on some very good drugs. A few years from now, he's going to think he's Skynet.

[cammers1995]

Where's the starfield PS5 and switch ports then?

[CobraKai]

I mean i own a ps5, switch, and xbox so I guess it’s true

[Games1st]

Until he takes the games away.

[SimpleSlave]

Nah, I'm good.

[keegamer80]

Video game tribalism. I get it but, I wish it wasn't a thing.

[repsahj]

I will stop gaming if M$ will be the gaming market leader.

[mastershredder]

Nah dude, your stank is yours alone. Don't try that cross-platform snuggle bear BS.
Get wrecked.

[Aloymetal]

lMAO! So freakin' true!

[Exthun]

Crossplay community

[YourMommySpoils]

Xbox's Phil Spencer considers PS5 and Nintendo Switch players the only community. Fixed

[neomahi]

No. PlayStation doesn't want to be. Pull your bottom lip over your head and swallow. Your underbite ought to make that easy. Only a blind man couldn't see what he's trying to do. PlayStation simply needs to sabotage the acquisition and make it appear to not be that big of a deal. Cheapen Call of Duty, not bundle it with your hardware. Cliff Blezinski was just talking about a Gears of War reboot. PlayStation, offer the guy a job and let him build a Gears of War franchise for PlayStation. He's got no job right now, Sony Santa Monica could put him to work and let him create. Bring back SOCOM and you have it play like Call of Duty. Xbox squandered $70 billion! Take them away from them. Treat Call of Duty like it's useless and let Xbox kill it like they did Halo and Gears of War, that's their track record. Let them piss off their fanbase with the GaaS business model, you know that's what they want and what they'll do because they have to recoup that money.

Microsoft and Xbox are the devil, they really don't know anything about the gaming industry and if PlayStation has a chance to finish them off, this is it. You let the world know they wasted a huge amount of money, they're doing whatever they can do get it back because they can't afford to eat a loss like that, and then you throw out exclusive after exclusive to bury them. Know, this is Phil's version of if you can't beat them join them without giving up his brand. I ain't that stupid

[Knightofelemia]

I was but Nintendo and Sony offered me a better deal. Games that actually draw my attention and made me want to buy those systems. I am thinking of just selling my Series X I just don't use it not even as a blu ray player. Halo 5 was boring, the new entries into the Gears franchise are also boring, I am not a Bethesda fan, and I am not an Activision fan. I'll either sell my Series X or just trade it in I just don't use it.

[AnotherGamer]

And yet none of their games will come to ps5 and such lol.

[ThePacemaker]

What a slimy snake, the most talkative person ever.

[Brazz]

So, no more xbox exclusives? Are they planing to launch games on ps5/switch

[Hofstaderman]

Im adamant MS is moving to service and third party publisher and Phils starting to cushion it with statements like these.
2027 is the new 2012 Mayan apocalypse date for XBOX consoles.

[Kakashi Hatake]

If I were Xbots, I'd tread carefully on the trash talking. It's obvious MS wants to go 3rd party.

[boing1]

It's starting. They need those PS money.

[Chocoburger]

I've turned my back on Xbox after the 2013 DRM debacle, I am most certainly not part of the Xbox community anymore, and you have no one to blame but yourselves for that.

[Markusb33]

How ? this guy needs to talk less and lay off the recreational drugs

[Exvalos]

If that's the case, why is Starfield an Xbox exclusive

[TiredGamer]

To sweeten the GamePass pot. In business there are short term and long term goals. You can’t do everything at once. The vision of GamePass is to eventually be on every platform possible, otherwise the business model does not make sense.

[MrSec84]

Microsoft didn't buy Activision and ZeniMax to keep their games off of PlayStation and Nintendo, they're definitely going to try to sell Game Pass and DLC to everyone they can.
Whether you game on their box, PC, Mobile or another device (TV, Console, Table, etc), they want the potential whole world of gamers and don't care about the Xbox Console getting exclusives.

Halo, Forza, Gears, etc will be accessible to everyone through the Gamepass App, billions of potential subs is their target!

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

I think his jacket is on a bit too tight.

[Fonsecap]

Hey I'm a pc gamer!! Why don't you like me Phil? You bigot!🤣🤣

[jwillj2k4]

Whatever helps you sleep at night Phil. This is some next level narcissistic obsession. I think he said something similar when they bought Minecraft.

[DigitallyAfflicted]

When PR person runs out of ideas and has nothing to say, but still need to make press statement to earn the money…