I have honestly lost my patience with Phil Spencer. The generation can be considered lost from a first party perspective, he took the job more than 5 years ago, and before that, he was in charge of the xbox studios division.
While there have been some good games, even the great ones (Forza Horizon series mostly imho) feel "more of the same". It is very clear the generation will close without a platform defining game, without a system seller. And note that I do not care at all if a game also comes out for PC. The performance of first party studios has been consistently bad, and the (exclussive) second party line up has been ridiculous with the exception of Sunset Overdrive (an IP that is now in sony's hands). I consider this a failure, his failure.
Another generation will start, with a very poor first party line up (non existant!), and, if the recent event has served for anything is that there is nothing awe-inspiring close to release. All the focus is still on services (xcloud, gamepass,...) and they keep forgetting the most important thing: the games. The hardware of the series x is indeed amazing, but without incredible exclussive games, it will never shine.
MS has bought lots of studios, but too late for the current generation and, it is apparent now, for the release of the next generation. This is a monumental mistake. I won't even talk about the Halo Infinite or Scalebound debacles.
All these things are owned by him, and the great recent achievements of xbox are unrelated to him: backwards compatibility, hardware excellence.
After all this consistent disappointing, all we have is PR talk.
Which brings me to Peter Moore, he was also a good talker, but he also delivered games, as somebody wrote recently in this sub "in spades".
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