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Spencer even appeared at the Final Fantasy Fan Festival as part of a renewed partnership with Square Enix.
TheXboxplatform is under constant scrutiny from every angle.
Part of it is because of how differently Microsoft does things, but part of it is definitely self-inflicted.
Microsoft is known for confusing messaging, and creating a perception of inconsistent commitments.
And what does the future of Xbox look like?
It’s not in our plans.
But I think you hit on the right point of ‘what it means to own an Xbox.’
And how do we continue to confirm that they feel great about their investment in what we’ve built.
I’m obviously going to have my own point of view on our hardware.
It’s an important part of the Xbox console identity.
And I think it will continue to be that.
“We absolutely do.
That includes the developer platform for Xbox consoles as well.
We’re always listening.
On cloud gaming, one thing that has been interesting you’ve watched us.
Early on, we talked about Xbox Cloud as a way to get onto mobile gaming.
And globally, there are a lot of people who play cloud gaming on mobile today.
But in a place like the US, the way people use cloud primarily is on Xbox consoles.
That’s sparked innovations that we didn’t plan.
There’s a roadmap of those things coming as well.
We need to verify we’re exposing roadmap to our customers to keep them excited.
We want our Xbox core customers that have been with us all along to feel respected.”
for this emerging gadget category.
I’m travelling right now, I have my Lenovo Legion Go with me, which is fantastic.
I think about those handheld PCs, almost extensions of my Xbox console.
We’ve been pushing for cross play, cross save, cross progression, for so long.
And I can play on the airplane and or play when I’m disconnected.
I think that’s vitally important to where we’re trying to go.
I think a lot about product entitlement, and we have Xbox Play Anywhere.
We’re looking at the ability to allow you to stream the games that you own."
Brazil is our second-biggest PC Game Pass market right now.
We’re seeing a growing use of cloud, in Latin America but also globally.
We had a pause on Xbox Cloud hardware deployment, which led to queue times around Starfield’s launch.
We’ve begun to start deploying more blades again to meet that growing demand.
Every one of those games people want to stream, people also want to play locally.
We have to build the tools for developers so that build both.
Yes, I think it does mean that our focus is more broad than it has been.
We’re significantly bigger than when Xbox started 20 years ago.
It’s our job to keep up with all that."
“Yeah, there is a roadmap for the Xbox Family Plan.
We put it in market to learn.
And we’ve been able to do that with how Game Pass is structured.
If so, what are the logistics of that?
What makes Xbox’s strategy different here?
Here’s what Phil Spencer had to say.
I can speak to us.
It goes back to some of our language on Game Pass in the very beginning.
We have a service that is financially viable, meaning it makes money, in Game Pass.
We want to do that as well, of course.
When you look at things we’ve done over the past 12 months.
When we look at the back catalog of games from Bethesda, we get really excited.
you oughta ensure those teams have passion for what they want to go work on.
I asked if we could seeWorld of Warcraft, StarCraft, orHeroes of the Stormeventually hit Xbox consoles.
“You did a good job at laying out some of the examples from the past.
There has to be passion in the team behind the projects.
That doesn’t mean that the team has to be the original team, every time.
They absolutely have the passion in this area.
There’s a lot of excitement for possibilities that we can all do together.
There’s usually some kind of reconciliation of those hints later on …
I’m not one to try and lead people on.
Where does Xbox console hardware, and its traditional customer base, fit into this new Microsoft Gaming division?
Here’s to the future.
