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Is Phil Spencer Clueless? (PressureCast One-Hundred-Fifty-One)

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DivoJones2786d ago

Boy this has clickbait written all over it.. so rather than watch this video from a random unknown podcast I'll just say this. You're never going to find a company executive who believes their product is inferior to their competition.. ever. Whether it's Phil, Shuhei, Reggie.. they all believe their product is the best, their lineup is the best, and their future releases will be the best.

DrKarateChop2786d ago

Rather than read the above comment written by a nobody, listen to the podcast. ;)

SoulMikeY2786d ago

Yeah... no. Don't give in to clickbait. F*** podcasts.

S2Killinit2786d ago (Edited 2786d ago )

I'm trying to find the section where he talks about Spencer. If I had to guess I would say he is referring to Spencer being "clueless" when it comes to VR. But I don't think he is actually clueless, its just that MS is caught off guard, and MS didn't work on a VR device. Now MS is in deep trouble because Sony is delivering on the VR front.

Edit: so basically he is saying MS and Spencer shouldn't try to act like they aren't part of the "console wars". And he is right. Both sides have done it, and there is no point acting like your an angel.

vega2752786d ago

Why would he be clueless on VR. They aren't making one. They would rather support third party hardware when it comes to VR. Which is alot better as it doesn't limit what devises can be used on the system as sony did.

MS would be smart to support many VR headsrt besides just oculus rift. As it would give more gamers option and they could use whatever store to sell games. Sony only wants gamers to buy from them. But maybe people arent interested in psvr games but rather get their games from steam. What then

S2Killinit2786d ago (Edited 2786d ago )

there is a huge difference between owning your platform and renting one. For one thing, owning the platform allows your in house developers to focus on what they have. The platform made from the ground up for a device will work better, and is better optimized than having different devices. Then there is the cost. If they have to pay someone else to use their headset, that means less money for other things. It also means higher overhead for anyone wanting to develop for the system (unless MS is willing to take the hit for the developers?)
To be fair, I think MS will make a 3rd party deal with a single headset provider as opposed to multiple headsets (probably Oculus).

But the biggest problem they have is that they will have to begin from a zero instal base for their VR device as no xbox one will work with it until scorpio. This is going to make VR game development on xbox a real hard sell. So yeah, they are caught off guard completely when it comes to VR. By the time scorpio arrives, (even IF it will have VR from the get-go) Sony's Playstation VR will already be an established platform with millions of units already in consumer hands.

Goldby2785d ago

@vega
Well the people who arent interested in PSVr wont buy it, it isn't an accessory that is required to be purchased by every playstation gamer, it is an option after all, which is good for consumers. not to mention the entire VR package with Sony is less than a rift and a VR capable PC.

As S2Killint stated, having to partner with a 3rd party company for your VR isn't a very sound setup. instead of making a VR headset that can work with Every Xbox One they decided to leave all the owners of X1's and X1S' in the dust for VR, unless they Buy their new console (Which will be more than PSVR)

Adn if they are more intersted in getting their games on Steam, that means they are PC gamers, and if they can use the rift now and use Steam as their store front, why would they wait a year for a console that can do what they would already be doing on PC?

Added that the install base (as S2Killin stated) is 0 for Vr on Xbox. when Vr is ready for Xbox (hopefull;y in time for scorpio release) they have to convince not only 20+Million Xbox Gamers to upgrade to a new console, then spend that amount on a hmd. and ontop of thaty try and convince people who ahve been using PSVR for a year that their purchase was wasted because 6tf with the scorpio and non of the games they purchaesed will be useful on the new console+VR headset.

Ms is in a corner in terms of VR, and unless they pachake Vr in with Scorpio at an insane price, it will not take off on the Xbox

vega2752785d ago

Yoh have no clue what your talking about.

It would cost MS anything as far as overhead becsuse their first party studios wouldnt be making games for the hardware nor would they have to worry about optimization since its not their vr headset.

It would actually be no different then PC. As any devise could be used on it without limiting the user base to only one vr headset or store to buy games from.

Automatic792785d ago (Edited 2785d ago )

@S2Skillnet

"clueless when it comes to VR"

You have to be pretty clueless to think Phil is clueless. The reason MS is not venturing into VR(is due to Kinect). They lost millions on Kinect, they also sold a ton of Kinects, at the end the software did not match potential. So instead of creating/ investing in VR they are investing in more games, hardware, and Xbox Live. Phil has been clear from day one you can not experience high fidelity VR, with current systems. Hence for the birth of Project Scorpio next year. Not only will Xbox support all VR devices minus PSVR but the games will match the high fidelity experiences. Most VR experiences you see at launch, for all VR devices, are tech demos. Next year you will see games take real advantage of VR.

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VideoGamesAreDumb2785d ago

Had you actually watched the video you would have known:

1. I profusely compliment Phil Spencer's tenure as Xbox boss so far, and his drastic improvement to the brand.

2. The title is referencing an interview last week where he claimed the recent approach to their marketing is not part of the "console wars"

3. The disconnect between his statements and their Twitter and television ad campaign.

4. My belief that an subtle attack campaign is the CORRECT approach for the company, but his disavowment of "console wars" is insincere.

You can have your opinion, that does not bother me. However, this accusation of "clickbait" is an uninformed and unrelated opinion. I am not offering "one weird trick to lose weight fast" or the "secrets of attracting women" I am sourcing and quoting the man himself. Proposing an idea. Building an argument. And defending an opinion.

Which I will say is far more compelling than baseless name-calling and insults. Don't like it? Make your own podcast. But this immature, overly defensive, and insecure distraction is no better than the clickbait you claim to detest.

Toodles!

XXanderXX2786d ago

He's got a job in an industry will all like & would love to have , so to think his clueless is just down right stupid .

Goldby2785d ago

i wouldn't want his job.

I wouldn't want to be the face of Xbox currently with all the competition they ahve against them, on top of the false promises the Company has stated over the years.

Yes he is better than Don, and has done an amazing job re branding the once soiled image of Xbox, but they are still playing catchup.

XXanderXX2785d ago (Edited 2785d ago )

I would love his Job , My first order of business would be to bring back Bill Gates and his Cutthroat business Savvy , as for what follows afterwards it will send shockwaves thru the industry .

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IndominusRex2785d ago

Why is it always Phil Spencer? I never see anything about playtation execs. Or even Nintendo execs

VideoGamesAreDumb2785d ago

Phil Spencer is far more frank in his interviews.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken2d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty2d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken2d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty2d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken2d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0072d ago (Edited 2d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken2d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot2d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto2d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer2d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek2d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken1d 17h ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie1d 16h ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12083d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast3d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit2d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export2d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2032d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai4d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H94d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1014d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H94d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion4d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_924d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19724d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing694d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard3d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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The Witcher 3 REDkit Q&A - CDPR & Yigsoft Confirm Steam Workshop Support; Further Changes Planned

CD Projekt RED and Yigsoft have launched The Witcher 3 REDkit on PC. We interviewed both studios to discuss the release of these mod tools.

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