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Microsoft’s head of gaming Phil Spencer has said companies like Xbox have a responsibility to ensure players and creators are united rather than divided

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“Our creators who bravely and intentionally release their visions to the world, particularly in the current culture of criticism and cancellation. Our players who bravely and intentionally carve out time for our games to invite, rest and rejuvenate their lives.

 

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And he has done an excellent job!

Phil is the man

Yet, it's 100% divided

Well he fails at that.

Proceeds to shoot halo in both knees, turn gears of war into a storefront, sanitize forza to kiddy baby levels, condemn rare to the sea of thieves mines, lay off thousands of employees Xbox 360 era gaslit us into thinking microsoft could run a gaming company

Would help if developers do not NVIDIA proprietary software, but use OPEN STANDARD software instead.

Hi Philip

really. united under whos boot. xbox..... you already own 2/3 of the market with fucking xbox and pc/microsoft... what the fuck else do you want. the world ?

And yet his fans like AndreaPichinini and MldGhost are pure cancer, and they bully other people in the community every single day

Phil go home

ele anda falando muita coisa, na prática .......

Gonna be real honest, they ain’t doing a good job of it. They gotta make sure 343 is hitting deadlines.

Can’t wait to play Starfield on my PS….. oh wait.

You're going to go down in history as the best Xbox president ever I feel you should be president of the United States to get us out of this craziness with Ukraine people back home are suffering and we're giving away. Hard-earned American money that people need here

No you don’t. This whole “United” thing just implies more moderation. Less social interaction.

Then Baned the damn hackers

He says while buying up entire publishers and making previously multiplatform franchise exclusive

Lmao this guy 🤣 he talks out his ass and everyone believes this 🐍 Xbox takes no responsibility they just talk alot and then don't come through its what they always do

Man talks shit all day every day

I figured out that Phil Spencer isn't focused on Xbox. Instead, he's taken a route that favors GamePass as a separate platform and draining Xbox gamers to power it. Jim Ryan sees that and exposed it. Now everything he speaks it becomes clear he's a fraud. I miss OGXBOX

Forcing crossplay on all games is their new gameplan. Halo, MW2, ForzaHorizon just to name a few for example.

Tbh I agree. I'd gladly have gow, horizon and tlou on xbox for fallout, Tew3 and scorn.

😂😂😂😂

This guy is a joke. He’s lying to everyone’s face everyday just because they gave him a paid medal.

I’m really surprised Phil Spencer still has his job after so many years of being completely clueless and offered nothing apart from a strategy involving billions to get subscriptions to Game Pass which anyone could have done or continued but properly by producing games as well.

He says this but then makes something like starfield exclusive. At least someone like jim ryan doesn't act like phil with constant nonsense about uniting the gaming and other bollocks

Phil Spencer divided Tomb Raider's fanbase in 2015 by making a timed exclusive deal for xbox. This guy is cancer in game industry.

Unity is not hiring gay people and blacks regardless of their talent, cold hard truth. I like Microsoft products AKA the Halo franchise and using a Windows PC, but there's a lot of social things they need to just leave out of the equation.

That's why They started with Exclusives?

Tell that to all the layoffs and other things going on especially with your flagship. Shit I enjoyed most the games your studio put out but the fact you let stupidity run it then proceed to dig them farther by laying off the single player team just don’t look to good man

As he buys full publishers to divide gamers 😂

Lol what a 🤡 FirePhilSpencer

Microsoft sure does good work in that department right now am i right? 🤣

Hence their political neutrality.

Well creating a wall garden is not the best way... Exclusives must stop if he was serious...

He's the biggest joke of this industry lmfao ! 😂

They should add machines like this one

I am not disagreeing, I am attempting to obtain some followers. Minecraft Anyone ;-)

Wow he’s so nice…how can I give him some money to help him with this dream?

Ah yes, exclusives always bring players together.

yes united under PS, thank phil

Xbox should be putting their time and effort into actually making AAA games instead of wasting money buying up studios and laying off employees.

AKA worse games

Yeah right Xbox still doesn't deliver first party titles,what a joy that is!

Just get a PC next time around…that’s what I did.

Didn’t they just fire a lot of employees from 343 and Bethesda?

Yeah right and you do that by firing 10.000 hard working people who are depending on income from Microsoft right XboxP3 and satyanadella

I Want Exclusives 😎

Everyone in Sony's little web, like this is what they wanted don't the regulators see they are afraid of Microsoft.

just wait, next week or so he will bash Sony for something ... again. Dude just start making good games and stop the embarrassment.

Yeah sure. And all this exclusivity bullshit really helps with that.

🤔

Cry baby cry 🤣🤣

Complete clown. I miss the peak days of Xbox during the 360 era when they were putting out bangers instead of having zero first party quality control.

United you mean business. The only thing he did to unite players was to force Sony's hand at cross play and it worked. Buying studios and making them exclusive is not unity, it's the complete opposite. I would rather if he didn't say anything these days as it is hypocritical.

Pretty rich after having divided Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda games into his camp.

United we stand... divided we see MSFT buy every videogame company there is

Uniting rape culture indeed. Weird ass guy, guy does shit for the platform and the poverty xbots celebrate him like crazy 😭😂✌️

Oh god. Hopefully this doesn't mean more woke bullshit

Suuuure! 😂

Good luck

'Which is why buying them ALL up, uniting them under OUR banner, is logical step. As is laying them off right afterwards, since we only wanted asset & IP rights to everything from the start lol'

Sounds like they want the monopoly of the gaming industry and money

We’ll give the gamers what they want Phil .. Sony doin it for you

Console gamers are having a war in the replies while Nintendo and PC gamers are just chillin Sup y'all Mario lovers?

'Xbox have a responsibility to ensure players and creators are united rather than divided' - tell that to the Halo community you've devastated and drawn apart since 2015. Not to mention your about to put the final nail in the coffin of your flagship game. unreal

He said while making High On Life and Redfall an Xbox exclusive.

Phil's full of crap. His the reason xbox console brand is dogshit now.

Hypocrisy - The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.

Comment section full of Playstation fans complaining about upcoming Xbox exclusives while ignoring Playstation's entire history of doing the same thing. No surprise.

But not the workers with their jobs, got it

Then why they firing Bethesda & 343i devs? Lol.

Ha…ha…hahaha…hahahahahahaha

another pr from phil to assure people that they is the good guy while others company is the bad guy since they doesnt has anything else on their table for the moment. another statement will contradict itself sooner or later. talk less, work more phil.

Microsoft would know a thing or two about division Namely 70 billion divided by 10,000

If only this guy was as good as managing as he is at saying whatever people want hear and lie…

Not an unreasonable take. Kind of an odd source though.

Can't even say that aged poorly. The last few months have not done any such thing sadly.

As they layoff tons and tons of workers.

This guys spending all the Microsoft money so they gotta sack 10,000 people lmao

Phil Spencer then went on to announce Xbox BIPOC Trans Lesbian Communist Gamerx Month during which time every game's price will doubled and the extra profit generated will be donated to BLM, Antifa, Greta Thunberg, Volodymyr Zelensky and the WEF.

Sure bud. Keep talking out your ass

Well... We are all united in wondering when Xbox plans on releasing some games for their console...

Get out Phil. You've done all you can do for Xbox it's time to move on.

Yet you wanna make shit exclusive

Phil don't spent much time in a Xbox chat party with the regular Xbox gamer does he. There's nothing but divided Xbot clowns spreading hate amongst that crowd in typical Xbox chat party. Phil should no this as he and Microsoft Xbox has spent 20+yrs dividing gaming.

I’ll believe this BS pr crap if bethesda/blizzard/activision games aren’t all exclusive when they were always multiplayer

i feel like he is saying that every year and its still a bag of bullshit

This guy 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I see he's working hard to get that deal approved.

the amount of shit this guy talks is unbelievable

Honestly idk why he says this when no other company cares to keep games off of Xbox. Ps swiping up yearly exclusivity for third party games left and right and I think Xbox should as well, this shit is way past divided.

Guess what XboxP3, as a life long Xbox fan and a owner of a Series X, I AM divided.

Well if that is true then start giving us some games. While we're at give us some decent games with gold that people have heard of instead of obscure garbage.

I call it

microsoft and nintendo are always down for cross play. But sony would always deny or make it impossible for it to happen. So I agree with him

Amen!!

He is at speeches but Today he had the opportunity to stand for Xbox division employees and stop layoffs. He did not, that was his choice

the fakest person in gaming

Holy fuck yall cry! Sony has been doing this gatekeeping for years, and you all dont say a dman word but laugh at xbox Gamers. It happens to you, and you cry like no tomorrow. If you cry so hard about bethesda and activision putting games in ps5 cry aboht square enix on xbox

'United' he saids but yet buying up two big publishers that have been on other platforms for many many years are in one ecosystem is the opposite. This dude is a straight up liar.

We need to start seeing a bit more action and a little less talk out of Phil...

This screams exclusivity talk

Y’all aren’t doing a good job

Until Phil understands that letting a game developer finish their game before releasing it is the way business should work, we will continue to believe he is full of it.

So uh… are ES and Fallout gonna be exclusives now then?

BS

He's probably saying this because of 343

What does he mean by that?

First unite the employees you guys fired . Double faced

Says the guy Xbox laying off a lot of employees… that’s United huh

Yea kicking out 10,000 across all M$

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Fun fact: microsoft created the console wars.

and the results came in and that was a LIE

Pinocchio phil

Players & creators, but not people who work there, of course

WotC highly disagree

'Can't we all just get along?' Nice sentiment, less toxicity between devs and gamers would be nice, but without details on what they plan to do, the words ring hollow. I definitely say that announcing games years in advance does not seem to help the situation.

Pffff… useless subscription for unsupported regions… more than 10 years no support in my country… unsubscribed and will not come back

United how? Only game I've played since the last Gears of War was the waiting game. No achievements for that though 😕

Looking forward to playing Hellblade 2, TEW 3, TOW2, TES 6, Prey 2, Wolfenstein 3 and Doom 3 on PS5

What does this even mean

He needs to work on getting third parties cause playstation is hogging all of them.

Meanwhile he keeps games exclusive to Xbox and pc

Living In a Dream World.GIFInsert

Except he IS about to cause Diversity.

Phil Bullshit Spencer 🤦‍♂️

Ok then remove that drm setup from your console and put full game on disk instead forcing gamepass to getting rid of ownership

Jim Ryan could learn alot from Phil Spencer. PlayStation XboxP3

Hmm...

CRINGE

Then why can’t Xbox Release a single game within a year

When people actually believe a CEO cares about his customers and 'uniting' them

Yeah. Ok Phil.

Legend.

Despite having owned every generation of Xbox since launch, Phil’s words fall on deaf ears for me. You can’t keep preaching gamer “unity” when actively trying to buy third party studios for the express purpose of making products exclusive. That’s the OPPOSITE of unity.

Start with 343

I mean... technically he didn't specify where.

10,000 employee layoffs at Microsoft later:

Sounds like something a guy who's losing the battle would say

Then make your own IPs and stop buying established third parties.

Sony agrees with this statement. However, the agreement is Playstation exclusive for an undisclosed timeframe.

Oh boy, something about a Xbox…

LIAR

Those who disagree with him get help please he is wright.

Microsoft Logic: Don't be divided, let's unite! By unite I mean let us acquire you and monopolize the video game industry just like we did in the PC world.

Coming from the King Clown that buys developers and Companies...

GG MS 😄👌🥴

*Proceeds to help lay off 10,000 employees across all of Microsoft* Pretty sure that’s considered a divide.

Keeping us united huh? So that your game plan with trying to buy all those studios? Because Mr Spencer I sure see a lot of divded folks those days

This Phil is a hypocrite and a real jerk. Smiling and being friends with everybody, Bob's world. This guy should have been fired a long time ago.

As they try to separate PlayStation gamers from ABK creators. And already separated Zenimax creators from PlayStation players. 😂

This man is so full of it 😂

So Starfield will be on all consoles? Ok, let it happen lier, facts don't talk

That clown, the real question is, who in this world still believes him? Just look his face lol what a clown

Turn off forced crossplay

Is that why they are dividing them by making Starfield exclusive? :p eh XboxP3 :p

Rightttttt says the one buying the big companies so they can take exclusives 😂

People keep going on about them buying up studios, but I'd rather those studios be kept alive than be shut down like Activision used to do. We lost a lot of good studios and people to those dark times....

Dude is a skeez and I’m amazed how nobody seems to pick up on it.

XboxP3 Walk the talk, fund scalebound or give ip back to platinum because fans and devs want the game. You arent listening to xbx , platinum fans and hampering the procedure.

Until the deal closes 😂

He says as he tries to pretend Microsoft is an underdog and not the behemoth pile of money that it truly is. “Oh woe is me, Sony is trying to make us small!” By *puts on glasses* making good fucking games and delivering to their fanbase for years...

🤣🤣🤣

Buy Buy Buy Buy buy

My man is the biggest snake oil salesman

I’m so sick of this guy’s kumbaya speeches. You want Bethesda and Activision games to be exclusive? Fine. Just stop preaching about unity.

Wtf

whats that supposed to mean.? Players not getting rightfully angry when the industry tries to trick them for harmony's sake?

Amen! We need to gatekeep gaming spaces and ensure Marxists, Leftists and Feminists GTFO.

I don't see Halo on PS or Nintendo... what a clown. Award? for what? Just buy companies? wow

Lies of phill

what a fraud

Phil 'wait until next year' Spencer has aged a DECADE since this ABK deal was announced. lmaoooo He's clearly comfort eating too. lol

Yeah right as long as it’s on his service , he talks a load of shit , when any company Nintendo or Sony work with creators the are not divided , think he just speaks because he likes the sound of his own voice

Hell yeah lets spend 70 billion in a company and also fire employees🤙Sigma male mindset(Microsoft execs)

Old news I challenge you to tell some real news

Phill Spencer is the best exclusive ever

Bunch of cap, Starfield gonna be great with my dualsense features right

Then don't hate on the fans, it's that simple.

Steals games from XBox players, two-faced about exclusivity, creams himself at the thought of a big-brother-esque mega-ban, blatantly lied about freedom of creativity and being more open and transparent ‘Muh unity’

'united, in our pockets' xD

Microsoft will fire 10K employees.

The Hypocrisy!

He’s really doing PR, if he thought that he wouldn’t have made Starfield etc exclusives. Nothing wrong with having exclusives, just don’t pretend XboxP3

I would say companies like Xbox and PlayStation and Nintendo first and foremost have a responsibility to ensure players who buy into their ecosystem have top tier games to play.

Nice lie buddy

I just laugh every time I read a new quote from Phil Spencer regarding “exclusives are counter to what gaming is about”, or “uniting players rather than dividing” Phil, you are taking games away from other platforms…this is dividing, not uniting FOH

I agree but buying up studios doesn’t help , it just fuels the fire & although healthy competition is good , it’s basically a console war more than ever now

XboxP3 Stop making windows second class just remember you guys at Microsoft wouldn't be where you are without windows let alone have a job so focus on both windows and xbox windows for gaming not much has been going on why where direct storage games etc on pc theres non yet

Lol hypocrisie

Sony says otherwise with its rapid fanbase and biased influence on fanboy journalists

His messages always read like a Hallmark greeting card. And feel like one too.

And Xbox fanboys are the most hardcore divisive people, hating on other platforms.

Let them know PHIL!

Sure until there is a profit. Who believes this crap?

United not diveded!!!

The thing that I always see is why arnt they putting x Bethesda title on ps5 as an owner of both its simple if Sony really wanted starfield or redfall on its hardware they would offer something in exchange for the title to hit ps5

Yet he took away future Bethesda games from ps lol

Meanwhile the dude let's dozens of games (particularly JRPGs) skip us on Xbox.

So explain Halo Infinite then 🤣

The PS cope is real lmao.

Sony has exclusives.. Xbox is also allowed to have them. If all the PS fans wanna cry about those games being locked to Xbox or better yet 'Xbox eco system' at least take a look at the Sony exclusives. Get all the systems and you can play everything

like Windows, very united without much competition

yea, united behind Microsoft

I can't wait to pick up Starfield for my PS5 then. 😆

I wounder if he ever hears the sh** that comes out his mouth..

Lol he just be talkin out his ass at this point

Name one creator that wanted to add Seasons, battle passes, and the cosmetic grind that was once part of your dedication and not your wallets into gaming XboxP3 You corporations created the divide and now want us to unify for a vision that IS NOT the creators? How sway

Rakothah I hate when he makes statements like this, the gaming industry is a business no matter how you paint it, focus on benefiting your own brand and offerings to your player base instead of pretending to worry about everything else.

The replies to this are giving me [more] brain damage.

Este tipo es el mayor pedazo de mierda. Él está tratando activamente de matar los juegos con cada paso que da. Bravooooo Phill NatalyaNatflix

All he says is bullshit. This man is so annoying

With Jim Ryan trying to boicott the Activision acquisition (while locking 3rd party games from coming to Xbox), throwing shade at MS, and PS fanboys harassing and doxing other gamers for not praising PS, that's Mission Impossible

That’s why they bought zenimax and made their products exclusive… LMFAO

Then let creators listen to the players and give us Starfield 60 FPS mode

Lots of toxic console warriors in the chat whenever something about Xbox is mentioned.

Unless he owns them all…

Yet he let his underlings push console wars

Can get behind this sentiment. But I would like to know Xbox efforts to unit players by offering more localization in first party games. IMO, severely lacking in that area. Also effort to enable local devs that aren't only in NA/EU/JP. I wish an interviewer ask these questions

So he just said united under the Microsoft banner. Ain’t that a monopoly?🤔

It’s a bit hypocritical to say something like that. I don’t say Xbox shouldn’t compete, given that Sony has put them in this position. But he’s not uniting anyone 🤣 he’s making business…

That why Microsoft is laying off 10,000 staff by March!

by giving up on japan

He’s divided gamers and destroyed the Xbox brand…

Says the guy who spent +70 billion dollars acquiring third party publishers like Bethesda and Activision. There's nothing 'uniting' about that. It's business.

all right where are my Bethesda games on PS5?

He says as he buys studios to keep certain games off the competitions platform

Mans is goofy ah

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