Phil Spencer and the Battle for Xbox's Soul 

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But pushing game pass was and as revealed by unsealed documents from Activision case Microsoft hoped to hike gamepass to as much $30 once it establishes dominance .

This is what happens when you put your games on PC.

You people don't buy them regardless. Stop it.

Now it's how can we nickel and dime the players..

He needs to go. There's been no accountability.

​@BajatheChickenMan the decision has nothing to do with him. He's always been just the face of xbox. Silly kid

@@paradox1241 Then they can get a new face if he's so unimportant. They need to clean house at the executive level. Responsibility falls on those who are in charge, silly kid.

​@@paradox1241You've believed all of Phil's false hopes and broken promises the past decade haven't you lol

in Phil we do NOT trust.

Fairly common amongst mergers. You don’t need two marketing teams, for example. You can normally consolidate without harming capability.

Ummm okay , that analogy was awesome haha

They did put faith in them, and we got Redfall. 😂

Share holders don't give a crap about the future, they just want more money Now.

Or delays upon delays, like ALL these devs these days

@@TheJohhnyE Arkane staffs also wanted Xbox leadership to cancel Redfall and give them something new to work on, and they just left them to just continue to push out a dead project...

​@@TheJohhnyE Goes to show faith is useless😂

So it back fired?

At least you've outed yourself for having no idea as to the cause of the closures of these studios.

Yeah this is not it.

​@@distortedsoul27 But that is why? What? Why don't you elucidate us then?

tango died when the founder of the studio Shinji mikami leaved the studio with alot of people directly after hifi-rush release. The studio as been an empty shell with no leader since hifi-rush release Arkane austin died when 90% of all veteran developper leaved after prey release and during the developpement of Firefall ( that was way before the purchase of microsoft ) That straight fact that can be easy find with a 5 sec google search.

What does the show have to do with tango studios

@@reasonjefferey4644 did you seriously just miss the worlds most obvious joke?

What they should've said: "ZeniMax was in a bad spot when we purchased them, to the point of toppling over completely. We did this to tidy up the resources available and focus on the future."

I’d have been like cool so when are we getting a new fallout game

She tried a Phil Spencer and failed... She's got sno snake charm

Satya Nadella (CEO of microsoft) likely has him tied up in his basement its been nigh confirmed that microsoft has kicked the xbox team out of the drivers seat

He's probably handcuffed

Phil is no longer the head of Xbox, he's the CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Sarah Bonds is now the head of Xbox.

@@michaelludlow626 This is the answer.

@@atlien1988She’s in charge of developing the hardware and keeping everything under one cohesive vision that was built by Phil. He’s still in charge of everything and in control of the overall decisions and direction.

yeah that's how you know this whole video is just him being an apologist for Phil Spencer who is a grown man that doesn't need another grown man to speak for him

@@FaZaFurhod except he didn't do that in this video. He talked about how bad it is, and that's my point. If Ryan Xbox McCaffrey says it's bad, then you can believe it's getting bad.

​@@FaZaFurhod You must not have watched the video

​@@FaZaFurhod pal didnt you even watch the video or just like other fools only a few second cuz you have the same attention span as a fish🤦🏽‍♂️

@@FaZaFurhod Moron.

They were never the chosen one. A decent sidekick at best but they couldn't even play that role.

Agree with this guy above me. They were NEVER the chosen one… chosen losers maybe.

It was said you would destroy Crash Bandicoot not join him!

Maybe in the 360 Era but no, PlayStation has always been the Chosen one...

@@WitcherGrandMaster no Nintendo is the chosen, Playstation is barely doing any better with their current leadership.

"the ones who gave us Gears 1-3, Halo 2,3, Reach, Forza, Orange Box, Mass Effect 1-3.etc." Most of those people were never even at Xbox. Gears 1-3 was Epic. Orange Box was Valve. Mass Effect was EA/BioWare. Xbox isn't successful enough to make those sorts of deals any more and those devs aren't for sale, now even Bungie has gone over to PlayStation.

@@faustianblur1798 yes true. But they released on Xbox first before being ported over to PS3 and PC. Like what happened to 2nd party titles like Final Fantasy, Nioh, Stellar Blade, Silent Hill with the PS4/PS5.

Bro been waiting for 15 years. If you aint sheep idk what you are

Project Gotham Racing

The Xbox team is on a mission.. and it has nothing to do with games

This should’ve been a major red flag that people haven’t talked about enough. Prior to the start of this gen he had an interview with the same Ryan where he said they didn’t lose Xbox One generation due to the quality of their games (keep in mind, he said this the same year PS had exclusives like Nioh 2, FF7R, Ghost of Tsushima and TLOU2, which is better output than the entire XB1 7-year lineup) but other reasons. Now after the Redfall disaster he comes out again saying great games don’t sell consoles and that everyone is locked in due to digital libraries. At the same time Nintendo has their best console ever which launched with 0 backwards compatibility, and both Sony and Nintendo still have anywhere between 40-60% of game sales happening physically (which means people can sell them if they really wanna switch platforms). The guy is just straight up clueless and wouldn’t be able to identify and nurture amazing games if his life depended on it, because he doesn’t believe in great games.

not according to the xbots over on twitter they want ms to buy up square enix capcom sega as well i.o interactive the list goes on. shouldn't never happened in first place also ryan wanted ms to buy up Japanese developer up like square capcom just get get revenge on sony to take games away from playstation. him and destin were big supporter of the buyout.

why its the company thats get bought out own choice

@@illusionsounds it's the CEO's choice to sell, Not the employees. The CEO gets a mountain of cash while the employees get fired.

@@PillsburyNinjaKneadingJustice yes indeed and if he created a company and he can make a butload of money with it why shouldnt he sell it if that is what he wishes

@@illusionsoundsbecause un-employing dozens of employees so you can make a quick buck is immoral.

Has IGN cut its strings?

Ryan is like a blind fan bro

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The thing is - it's the correct choice. Getting into consoles in the first place was a massive blunder for Microsoft. Microsoft's revenue comes primarily from Windows. They inexplicably believed the "PC is dead" nonsense and went into consoles, competing with themselves and neglecting their own platform so badly that Valve was able to set up shop on their lawn and create a monopoly in an OS they don't even control. The Xbox was a mistake. Microsoft should have always focused their game development efforts on PC making it the premiere gaming platform.

The showcase will blow your mind.

​@@CavangoVulgora With what at this point?

@@jorshwaminguez4699half life 3

@@jorshwaminguez4699 Maybe a new controller or something like that

A great showcase could answer some big questions, but will those games actually arrive on schedule?

REAL

not really, The horizon of great games just kept moving.

Nope

Which of them actually has a soul? Be it Xbox, PlayStation or Nintendo they’re all in it to make money for their shareholders. Nothing else.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 I personally wanted to say this as well that since when did Microsoft have a soul

@@ashokathegreat4534 Sounds likely. They’ve spent what, like $90B on gaming acquisitions? They don’t really have anything new to show for it, just limping along. IDK how any Xbox leadership folks still have their jobs.

Didn't horizon 5 sold extremely well?

@@x0Fang0xnobody really knows anymore. Xbox sales and gamepass numbers are blurred. A game can have “2 million players” but no one knows if it’s gamepass downloads or purchases.

Its simple. Phil Spencer and that whole team don't know what a AAA game is if it bit them on the butt. We are talking yeeeeaaars of gaming failure.

Almost all their first party games aside from Redfall have high aggregate review scores. This is revisionist nonsense

You should start a business, sell nothing, and see how long you last.

it's a business, genius

@@BDafarmer yeah and it’s ruining the industry, genius

Save how? You can't just reverse a studio closure like that. And lots of those people are already looking for new jobs.

That game is a basic RE meets SH. Get over it.

Because it was made the same guy who made the best RE games ​@@occiferfigpucker4840

Tango was already a sinking ship. Their CEO and at least half of their staff left after Hi-Fi Rush.

​@@occiferfigpucker4840yes and it's a masterpiece because of that if you didn't know yet ; )

Too busy playing Fallout getting nuked on his camp

You want Donny to come back? I'll give Phil until this Friday to say something

Oh yea like Japs do it better. What's that Silent Hill? Still not doing Kojima's idea? Okay then 😂

It's not just Western game studios that share these problems.

@@SuperAngryWalrusthen why isn’t Sony having these problems….

@@jacobtaylor5503 They are. They also laid off developers.

⁠​⁠@@SuperAngryWalrusBuying too many studios and cant sustain them thats why thats why Buying Publishers is a a bad idea in the first place creating first party studios from the ground up while maintaining your existing studios and expand them and the rest just making 2nd party and 3rd party games deal is always whats works and Thats what Sony always did.Thats why Sony laid off developers and close down some studios like Sony London isn’t as big as Microsoft laid off and closing down studios.For the past 10 years Microsoft close more first party studios than Sony has.And when Sony buying studios it makes sense like Insomniac,Housemarque and blue point studios.Buying publishers with multiple Ip’s and studios aren’t easy to manage thats why Microsoft and embracer group close many studios

Would it though? They need to sell new games not get people hooked on old games. XBOX not having much content is an old battle they're still fighting but they have bigger problems now.

@@benjamincurtis1412 That's the thing, it probably wouldn't have. Phil somehow managed to sell his magic beans idea to Nadella but the whole business model of Xbox is preposterous.

gamepass won't save xbox. At this point, gamepass has hit its ceiling. If you haven't bought gamepass yet, you probably never will

The reality is that Gamepass has hit market saturation. The people that don't want to own their games and want to rent them have signed up. Everyone else isn't interested. Microsoft assumed that they'd just keep growing, but vastly overestimated how much the average gamer dislikes subscriptions controlling their entire library.

But… they never was the hero never reached number 1 … ever. Their like a rich villain that never wins

​@@fabolousjada5070😂🎯💯

@@fabolousjada5070 The 360 generation you could say they won that and they were definitely the innovators or pioneers that generation.

@@Prodigy396 nope they didn’t they came in second place at the end. Close but no they didn’t win

The higher ups at Microsoft shouldn't have gave him an open check book.

Yeah hard Disagree. Gamepass is blitzing the rest because it's a genius ideas. Spencer did nothing wrong.

@@dcmastermindfirst9418incredible analysis…..

@@robob221 Thankyou

@@dcmastermindfirst9418hes being sarcastic dude 😂

Hard Disagree. It's the best time. The xbox is a clear better console in general. This smear campaign against Microsoft is rubbish. Gamepass is the best gaming service ever. Phil got nothing to worry about.

@@dcmastermindfirst9418cope harder

​@@dcmastermindfirst9418Blind Contrarianism, love to see it

@dauinn8087 Lol what's blind here? I'll let the numbers speak for themselves. Sony simply can't compete with Gamepass alone. That's just a fact son.

​@@dcmastermindfirst9418 😂

Microsoft sharpening the axe, who's next?

Definitely a red flag.

That code language for latinx and african womens

@@ashokathegreat4534 Huh?

One of the studios closed was nominated for game of the year and made profit. That's not the metric they are using. It also wouldn't make sense because game pass exists.

⁠@@jesse1086you’re correct on the fact that Tango had a huge hit with their game. However, it’s been said over and over again, Game Pass is NOT sustainable. They are bleeding money with the service model and unless they had an unrealistic number amount of subs, it’s only going to get worse. Doesn’t help that they spent so much money on buying ZeniMax and ABK. They spent way more than they were allowed to, on top of an already no profit service plan and it’s finally crumbling down faster than they can fix it.

​@@jesse1086HI FI rush surpassed it's target quota and exceeded expection for its scale. However, it's revenue is to small. Sold only like 300k. Could have sold more if it wasn't for gamepass.

Xbox doesn't need a new CEO. Microsoft does as sadly, Xbox is powerless against its parent. Satya tells Xbox to close studios, Xbox does not get to have a choice in the matter.

It was Microsoft, not Xbox that closed those studios. Plus, those studios were going to be closed regardless of if Microsoft owned them. ZeniMax was in that bad a spot that they were looking at collapse due to overstretching their worldwide resources, such as staff and support. So many people aren't looking at the cause, instead are thinking emotionally, and the games media are eating it up for views.

@@distortedsoul27you dont know this buddy

⁠​⁠​⁠@@distortedsoul27you’re thinking just as emotionally.

@@balfanghellfire then Satya Nadella needs to resign; Steve Ballmer had a better leadership.

Shoutout to Ryan McCaffery you a real one ☝️

dude was corpo from the beginning dont be fooled. He just puts on this front of being a "real gamer" and dressing like the old guy who still works at gamestop.

think of it this way, Phil is the Reggie Fils-Aimé of Xbox

He was always a villain. People inexplicably ignored the rampant lies because they hated Mattrick so much and tied Xbox to their personal identity. Phil was a failure from the start.

lol

Bad microphone?

😂😂😂

Hasnt*

He’s the only CEO from the big 3 who frequently appears and speaks in public, and when he does he wears jeans and a gaming shirt referencing some obscure old IP so people fall for it and think he’s a “true gamer” like one of them and not an old bonehead who barely knows how to hold a controller like Jim Ryan. Except ironically Jim Ryan at least knew what made his console thrive: great games, and tried to make sure they had those. Phil on the other spent his time whining about how the industry isn’t growing and how people are locked in because of digital libraries while Nintendo currently has their most successful console ever despite it having 0 backwards capability. And he was simultaneously chasing a mystical audience of “3bn gamers” who were just a grasp away if only they didn’t need to spend $300-500 on those damn consoles and $60-70 per game. They basically fell for his charm, and still do, as evidenced by this video where people still believe he’s some sort of pro-gamer CEO who now has to fight and internal battle against Microsoft bean counters.

Because he wears cool shirts and plays Fallout 76.... what else do you need from a CEO for a major entertainment brand?

He did?

What a weird thing to say.

Halo and Gears haven't been that relevant since 360 era. Even last year's Forza was a buggy mess ! They need the 360 era people back.

11 years later they haven't recovered with that fiasco of presentation; it's simple, Xbox peaked with the 360, Sony peaked with PS4.

Did we watch the same video? These likely aren’t decisions made by Phil himself but from higher up. Things wouldn’t really change by replacing him

Xbox still has that pinnacle. In Gamepass

Bro when have they been the pinnacle they never even been number 1 they were number 2 ONCE 15 years ago bud

@@fabolousjada5070 Gamepass alone puts them above Sony.

​​@@dcmastermindfirst9418Gamepass is crappy as hell. Just look at the sales of xbox. Can't outsell ps5 despite selling a console that is 300 dollar 😂😂

While it IS true that to climp a ladder you must be willing to step on rungs, Phil Spencer's job is to generate profit, regardless of his character.

It's not like theyre gonna have anything.

Its just going to be gears and cod.

They're not gonna have anything interesting and I've been with Xbox for 14yrs.

Maybe another Fable trailor, with that wierd looking lead character.

@@mig1017 maybe that's the default character? Maybe there will be a character creator? Like BG3.

Bloodborne,DemonSoul Nigg4 dafuq you talm bout?