>>714298905 (OP)
Talk big to get investor money. No matter how shit things are, you keep talking big. Tell people how things really are and they will flee like rats from a sinking ship, only fucking yourself even more.
His job is (probably soon to be "was"), to convince them the ship isn't sinking to keep them from pulling out, and perhaps lure more people in if he's lucky enough.
What was the point of the Activision-Blizzard acquisition again? It cost a lot of money, got Microsoft in trouble with the CMA and FTC, and resulted in all of zero games being made or even announced.
>>714299368
Well, he pushed backwards compability, xbox one x to fix that shit Metrik did, obscure games were ported, xbox sx for poor games + gamepass.
You hate him, but he did everything right, but you bought PS5 anyway
>>714298905 (OP)
allow every studio to get founded, then spend a decade in development hell before being shut down, without having ever released a game
>>714306209
And how much time will it take them to make their inversion back? If that shit makes a billion per year I doubt they would sell it for cheap.
>Used to work at Zenimax >Last year sucked >New managers came in, office culture became high school >Terrible time >Got new job, moved on >Getting to look at Linkedin today as all of my previous managers and coworkers are crying about losing their jobs and waxing on about their "next life adventure."
At the very least, Phil Spencer has given me some great afternoon entertainment.
>>714298905 (OP) >microsoft and playstation bleeding employees and studios like flies >nintendo has been on a years long hiring spree while building new office buildings to expand further
What the fuck is happening to this industry?
>>714299368 >Has he actually accomplished ANYTHING at Microsoft's gaming division?
Has XBOX ever accomplished anything?
It's been shit from its conception.
People were laid off because games take ages to release nowadays. Yet people are still expected to show up there at the company, doing nothing and still getting paid.
>>714310615
In the early 10th when Xbox was comparable to playstation in popularity basically the whole gaming community wanted Xbox to be gone. And this only got way worse when the Xbox one was announced. And the hatred never stopped untill basically today.
>>714311162
Videogames are dead because there's no real interest for videogames anymore.
No competition, no passion, no inspiration and aspiration.
Videogame have regressed and lost credibility.
>>714299368
he tried to use Microsoft daddy money to out compete sony and only make Microsoft convert xbox to a life service product(like windows, azura,etc) instead of letting it doing their own thing like they always did, thank you phil…