Phil Spencer Wants a 'Steady Flow of Great Games' on Xbox - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 April 2022 / 2,787 Views
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on the latest XboxEra podcast and transcribed by PureXbox said he wants the first-party lineup of Xbox studios to get to a point where it can release a "steady flow of great games."
Spencer said the company has yet to reach that point, but he, Matt Booty, the Xbox Game Studios' teams, and ZeniMax teams are working on getting to that point.
"We do have a lot of great games in development...We want to get to this point where there's a steady flow of great games that are coming, that our customers can predict," said Spencer.
"We're going through right now, you know, [and] we don't have a big game this quarter - so Matt Booty and the teams, and the ZeniMax teams...want to get to that point where we really have a great on-ramp for our platform and games that people can get excited about on a regular basis."
Microsoft has worked in the last 4 or 5 years to grow its first-party lineup of studios with major acquisition of Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax, Playground Games, Obsidian Entertainment, Ninja Theory, and many more. Microsoft is also in the middle of acquiring Activision Blizzard.
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yes, me too!
Seems like once the Acti deal closes they should easily be able to have one big game per quarter, and then one AA type thing per quarter as well, plus more.
Yeah, I believe they will have around 30 studios once that deal closes. That is huge!
Those investigations won't have any impact.
We already know that. He said not so long ago during a few interviews, in his candid manner that we appreciate, that he liked how Sony Studios was doing things, and he want d to deliver in a similar manner. With how many studios he acquired over the last two years, I sure hope he’ll managed to deliver on that wish.
His passion for the industry is undeniable. Now lets hope Microsoft really has this said industry’s best luck interest at heart, and he’s not a mere PR puppet to Satya…
I believe he first said this almost a decade ago. And we are still waiting.
He only took over in 2014. After that he spent 2-3 years cleaning up the mess that the management team during the Xbone era left behind and trying to salvage the Xbone as best he could. Then that's when they started looking towards getting studios which only started in 2018.
Good you agree with me.
Not really. 2021 was a great year for Xbox with 5 games released. So the tides are starting to turn. I'm personally more excited for the RPG games that are in development. We're more waiting on games releasing every quarter.
Haters gon hate
Overall, Xbox had a really good 1st party offering in 2021, but they still have issues when it comes to having a steady flow of games throughout the year. 2020 actually had a better release schedule but they lacked AAA games. I think 2023 is when MS will start hitting their stride, which in a way is good timing because currently having 'system sellers' doesn't even matter for console sales.
Who doesn't for their console? Question tho when was the last 1st party MS game on Xbox? Is it still Halo? Just curious.
Indeed it was. Halo Infinite released in December, but there was also Forza Horizon 5, Psychonauts 2, and Microsoft Flight Simulator that released in 2021 by Xbox 1st party studios. Age of Empires IV is also a 1st party IP for Xbox that released back in October, but it was only for PC. There are a lot of rumors that it will get an Xbox port soon though.
