Xbox boss Phil Spencer mentioned how the crew “needed to ensure we had an incredible present” with Xbox Games Showcase 2023, and the way he feels they “did not hit” the bar set by buyer expectation in 2022.
Xbox Games Showcase 2023 introduced us an entire wave of bulletins, and Spencer says the Xbox crew “knew the movement popping out of each Bethesda and Xbox Game Studios was gonna hit.”
Xbox boss Phil Spencer says the crew “needed to ensure we had an incredible present” with Xbox Games Showcase 2023
“2022 was a light-weight yr,” Spencer says in an interview with The Guardian. “That’s type of a optimistic solution to put it.” Speaking of the Xbox Games Showcase for 2023, Spencer provides, “I knew that our first social gathering was gonna be robust. We have over 20 studios, and it was considerably anticipated that they’d rise up to hurry after Covid and get their product popping out. We knew the movement popping out of each Bethesda and Xbox Game Studios was gonna hit. I’ll be sincere, I at all times really feel like we’ve got lots to reside as much as. The expectation of our clients is excessive. We know we didn’t hit that bar in 2022 and we needed to ensure we had an incredible present.”
Spencer additionally commented on Starfield, which had its personal centered deep-dive proper after Xbox Games Showcase 2023 (and which Tom selected in our TA crew picks for the very best of Summer Game Fest 2023), saying, “making the very best Starfield is totally our objective. I need to construct the best possible video games we are able to.”
He additionally discusses how far Xbox has come, saying, “Our enterprise proper now, from a income standpoint, is about twice the dimensions because it was within the Xbox 360 technology. And we’re tens of millions of consoles forward of the place we might’ve been in comparison with 360. We’ve by no means had extra Xbox gamers than we’ve got proper now.” Later, he feedback on the truth that Halo wasn’t featured through the present. “I wouldn’t say Halo is of lesser significance, however we’ve got over 20 studios now. I’ll return to the years the place I had mainly 4 video games — Fable, Forza, Halo, Gears, the 4 horseman of the apocalypse. We have much more video games now.”
What did you make of Xbox Games Showcase 2023, and all of the video games coming to Game Pass it introduced?
