Popular English-language gaming edition Video game chronicle within the framework of summing up the results of the last twelve months named Phil Spencer “Person of the Year 2023“. The site highly appreciates his activities as the head of the gaming department. Microsoft…
The editors noted the positive effect of the decisions made by Spencer on the global strategy of brand development Xbox…
The portal believes that it is thanks to the head of the gaming branch that the console business Microsoft was able to completely change its course towards becoming a unique and unprecedented gaming ecosystem for users from all over the world…
“Phil Spencer appears to be a truly sincere, open person, ready to take responsibility for his actions. This is what ordinary players love so much about him. Even now, with the events happening around the world, thanks to which many companies are hiding from awkward questions, the Xbox leader is ready give out hundreds of interviews right from your home. “
The material says that Phil Spencer seems like “his boyfriend who truly loves games” – there is no aura around him of a soulless corporate figure who is only interested in money. It was with Spencer’s suggestion that the user-friendly Xbox Game Pass subscription service was born, which in the long term should become “gaming Netflix”, and the cloud platform xCloud – Microsoft’s weapon of attracting billions of people to console games on phones.
Spencer is also against the console wars, and his team played a big role in breaking the “wall” that prevented the emergence of full-fledged crossplay in games on platforms from different manufacturers. Today, none of the companies that produce set-top boxes are opposed to crossplay.
Reviewers also noted that Spencer is trying to ensure the Xbox has a multi-vector gaming future, so he buys studios and forms entirely new ones. Bethesda’s parent company Microsoft is acquiring for $ 7.5 billion in the largest deal in industry history.
At the same time, Microsoft allows all its new studios to fully fulfill their previously executed agreements with other manufacturers. For this reason, Deathlooop and GhostWire: Tokyo will be temporary PlayStation 5 exclusives despite the deal.
Today, Spencer’s main task is to start releasing good exclusives from Microsoft studios for Series X | S, experts say. The lack of new high-profile internal games at the start of the nextgen consoles was somewhat disappointing.
Read also: Second Cyberpunk 2077 is not needed: Squadron 42 disappeared beyond the horizon again – Star Citizen’s father does not want to repeat the mistakes of CD Projekt…
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