New Xbox hardware.
New team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility.
Diablo IV on Gamepass.
Under his leadership, many have lost their jobs and fewer games have made it out the door.
people should call for his resignation, he has literally flushed xbox down the toilet.
another 3 studios closed today, thats it now, get out
Phil needs to go. His time is over. When you oversee layoff after layoff after studio closure after studio closure, it's impossible to keep going forward and have people - employees and fans alike - trust you in any way.
Especially after HiFi Rush hit their metrics. I guess we know what to expect for Ninja Theory next once Hellblade is out, and Machine Games once Indiana's out & Todd Howard focuses back on ES6.
It's not just Phil (Phil is just the dumb kid taking the money) and Kotaku is NOT the voice to listen to as shi7 sites like Kotaku helped contribute to modern gaming toxicity and disinformation. Kotaku staff = Much like Phil, and yes need to go.
MS has been posting record profits, you think they give a crap about games and gamers? Think again.
What a prat.
People gave him and Matt Booty the benefit of the doubt for a few years due to the mess they inherited but a decade on and all they've done is ruin gaming for everyone.
The only success they've had is MS Flight Simulator which was developed by a third party anyway - and Forza Horizon which by pure coincidence went downhill in quality the second Playground were acquired (imo) and that's all I can think of. Everything else they've touched has been ruined.
It's genuinely staggering how either of these two guys are still there.
In an Interview with Game Rant, Neil Newbon discusses the performance choices he made portraying Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion, and why some decisions were risky.
Brendan writes; "Head of digital product development Dan Ayoub tells us about the toy maker's plans to get back in the game."
Hell yeah!!!
My favorite quote:
"Per emails received by Windows Central, confirmed by Microsoft as genuine, Xbox President Sarah Bond recently briefed her team on various topics.
In the emails, Sarah Bond reiterated Microsoft's plans to build new Xbox hardware focused on delivering "the biggest technical leap ever in a generation."
Way to go, Sarah!
Just focus and give us a full blown next gen system!
Wow “Forward compatibility”
That means, they’re already thinking of leaving the series X/S fanbase behind or it would have said back compat
Let's see how many people fall for this. Wasn't Series X supposed to be the most powerful console out right now? What happened with all that talk?
Funny watching those running Xbox spin their usual nonsense. Then someone else from Microsoft is gonna come and say something different.
This is just B.S. propaganda to get ahead of the negative press from their upcoming digital only series x and the complete loss of any disk based options when both s and x are digital only.
How are you going to preserve games when you can't stick any disks in the console?
And this is such an obvious con coming from the company that has pushed for digital only subscriptions and streaming harder and for longer than anyone else, this is the company that wanted to tie disks to your account to prevent resale and game trading.
I guess they can preserve their games by making disk versions for PlayStation.
Anyone remember when Microsoft deleted all of xblig removing access to hundreds of games people purchased?