AcidTwang@kbin.socialtoGaming@beehaw.org•Opinion: Phil Spencer, long cast as Xbox’s saviour, may be remembered as the man who killed it
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8 months agoTrue. These mega-deals are rarely about games, it’s more in the realm of finance. In fact it doesn’t really matter if it’s games, films, cars, saucepans, it’s all about the financial side. And as a consequence in order to make good on that investment these companies end up producing the blandest, widest-appealing pap, the complete opposite of innovation. However, the breathless way these stories are reported by a media, both specialist and mainstream, which is more concerned with business “success”, means we’re told it’s a very good thing, when it clearly isn’t.
He’s been happy to support the system for so many years, he is part of the problem.