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"There is no world where Starfield is an 11 out of 10 and people start selling their PS5s," he said. "That's not going to happen."

"We lost the worst generation to lose in the Xbox One generation, where everybody built their digital library of games," Spencer said.

"We want our Xbox community to feel awesome, but this idea that if we just focused more on great games on our console that somehow we're gonna win the console race, doesn't relate to the reality of most people.

"Like 90 percent of the people every year who walk into a retailer to buy a console are already a member of one of the three ecosystems. And their digital library is there. This is the first generation where the big games they're playing were games that were available last-gen. When you think about Fortnite and Roblox and Minecraft, the continuity from generation to generation is so strong.

"I see a lot of pundits out there who want to go back to the time when we all had cartridges and discs, and every new generation was a clean slate, and you could switch the whole console share. That's just not the world we are in today."

Because of this, Spencer insisted, Microsoft is trying to pitch a unique offering, one that includes Game Pass, cloud gaming and the idea games can be played on any device by everyone. "We're not in the business of out consoling Sony or out consoling Nintendo,"

"There isn't really a great solution or win for us," he said. "And I know that will upset a tonne of people. But the truth of the matter is when you're third place in the console marketplace, and the top two players are as strong as they are and have in certain cases very discrete focus on doing deals and other things that make being Xbox hard for us as a team - that's on us, not anybody else - our vision is that everybody who's on console has to feel like they have a great experience and they're a first-class citizen, they've invested a tonne in our platform, but we are not in a position...

"... and I see it out there, I see commentary, that if you just build great games everything would turn around. It's just not true that if we go off and build great games all of a sudden you're going to see console share shift in some dramatic way.

"We have this unique vision because we see what creators want to do. Creators want to build games that can meet players on any screen. People play with their friends regardless of whatever screen they're on. And the console is the core of the Xbox brand. There's no doubt. So we will stay focused on making sure that console experience is awesome.

"But I know some people want to hold us up as just being a better green version of what the blue guys do. I'm just going to say, there's not a win for Xbox in staying in the wake of somebody else. We have to go off and do our own thing, with Game Pass, with the stuff we do with xCloud and the way we build our games."

"When I look at Showcase - and I'm not going to try and oversell Showcase here - I'm very enthusiastic about Showcase," Spencer said. "We're going to announce some things people haven't seen, some new games, we're going to give some updates to some things."

What can fans expect from Xbox in the future? "We've got Starfield coming, we've got Forza coming, we've got Hellblade coming, we've got collections of games, I'm seeing very good builds of Avowed... I can see it," Spencer teased. "But, until you have a controller in your hand and you're smiling from playing our games, none of my words should matter."

Fable gameplay trailer so so soon inshallah

Sounds like Spencers vision is to make Gamepass a service where you can subscribe to in any console and play Xbox games there but I don't see Sony ever accepting that since they are building their PS+ to compete with Gamepass.

But maybe if the Activition deal passes and they make Call of Duty an exclusive then they can force Sony to accept such a deal

I mean he’s right no one is gonna sell their ps5’s for starfield

Lfield

should've made TES6!

The amount of articles and uproar that has gone to common sense statement

nah but I’d sell my Xbox if they brought starfield to ps5

Imagine if Starfield turns out to be mid (a la Fallout 4)

what? cmon phil i speak for everyone when i say i’ll drown my ps5 in water if starfield is a classic

Fallout 4 is definitely not as good as 1-3 or NV but it’s still a great game

They really only f***ed up the dialogue systems, the companion and relationship system was greatly improved, enemy systems like ghouls crawling out of crevices and s***, flying vehicles, power armor mechanics, weapon modifying, all junk having some use, etc. are all improvements.

He said more than that tho; he said that making great games would not make people want to buy an Xbox console, which is actually very wrong imo.

Not focusing on making great games while putting their every thought on Gamepass isn't a good plan

The kinda funny interview he did was great, you rarely hear CEOs be this candid. Refreshing tbh

There’s a lot more room for Xbox gamepass to grow, there’s over 1 billion pc gamers worldwide

Even if the Xbox console grows its market share by several % and gets closer to Nintendo and sony, that’s only a few million more players really

This is the equivalent of J Cole saying he’s not gonna compete with Drake and Kendrick

Gamespass becoming a universal service sounds like an interesting future, but like @op said, PlayStation would never play ball with PS+ being their thing.

As strange as it sounds though, I feel like it’s more of a possibility that Nintendo would make some sort of Gamepass deal with Xbox. Xbox games on a Nintendo platform, but not the other way around

And pushing Gamepass isn’t a excuse for mediocre games either

Yeah but the writing was ass in general, which, for an RPG, is kind of a big problem.

That, in conjunction with the dialogue system and lack of choice, also leads to almost all the quests in the game suffering from possessing any degree of memorability.

Doesn’t help that it was following up New Vegas either.

Isn't that the whole reason they made the Series S, as an affordable entry into the Xbox ecosystem

Exactly; if there is a game in the same level as Last of Us or God of War on Xbox I'll probably buy a series S and sub to gamepass there

they made a thread bout this HAHAHAHA

once again, sony cucks down bad for whatever reason. Activision purchase soon, game pass on the PS5/6 soon after that

That interview was so sad lmao

Bro basically said they can’t compete with Nintendo and Sony by releasing good games

Like wtf

That’s the POINT of video games

Y’all aren’t releasing good games, if any at all. And when you are, they’re busted ass games that shoulda been delayed 2-3 more years

Phil man lmaoo