Head of Xbox Phil Spencer Says Half-Life: Alyx is 'Amazing' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 May 2020 / 2,859 Views
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer via Twitter said he has "played some great VR games" and had the chance to play Half-Life: Alyx over the summer, which he called "amazing."
He enjoys virtual reality, however, he added that it is not the focus with their next generation console, the Xbox Scarlett.
This is all inline with what Spencer recently said. He previously said that in the future virtual reality might come to the Xbox, however, "that’s not where our focus is."
Xbox Scarlett launches in Holiday 2020.
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Good signs for Half Life Alyx. As for VR, well nothing wrong with having a mountain of studios focusing on making games for a platform and not a niche device that majority wont be playing.
He`s a gamer that like new technic stuff and a fair guy if another company develop something great.
i do not play games on PC, guess I will miss a great game and have to watch on youtube
That's the terrible thing. VR not in VR is much less an experience. YT just can't give you that experience. I honestly with more console companies were into including VR instead of dismissing it. It's made improvements by leaps and bounds the last few years and I don't see that slowing down. Developers are starting to learn how to really harness it and as we're seeing with HL Alyx, starting to create more robust games instead of quick one off demos of sorts.
As I've said before, there are lots of Phil's. Short life expectancy, no belly button. They are grown in labs and hatched from a pod, whereas the previous models were "sludge-piles" that could take human form for brief periods before reverting back to goo form and sleeping in a bucket. The Phil model is the most successful of all of the laboratory grown Xbox executives, but there are still obvious flaws in uniformity with the Phil model that lead to statements made within hours of each other which seem contradictory.
What shall be up with him? He doesn't pull out some of "his" employees to Work in VR games so that he has more staff to work on games not for VR.
Believe it or not, that is awesome for everyone not interested in VR
Not just Twitter. He's been a PR spam machine the likes of which has rarely been seen during the last 6-8 months. And as a result, he's been prone to regurgitation, and to a lesser extent, statements which can can fairly be construed as contradictory ....I made it a point of contention in these articles a few months ago. Never see you in the news/articles. Welcome to the terrordome.
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