Whereas claiming that “the console is the core of the Xbox model,” Microsoft’s head of gaming has reiterated the corporate must concentrate on the broader gaming market if it is to achieve success. From a report: Throughout the Kinda Humorous Video games Xcast podcast, Spencer was requested if Xbox has taken its eye off the console market by focusing an excessive amount of on PC. In response, Spencer stated Microsoft could be unsuitable to suppose that simply constructing nice console titles may assist it overtake Sony and Nintendo when it comes to {hardware} gross sales. As an alternative, it has chosen to pursue a unique technique to the Japanese corporations, one targeted on fulfilling builders’ imaginative and prescient of enabling prospects to play their video games on any display screen. “We’re not within the enterprise of out-consoling Sony or out-consoling Nintendo,” Spencer stated. “There is not actually an amazing answer or win for us. And I do know that can upset a ton of individuals, but it surely’s simply the reality of the matter that whenever you’re third place within the console market and the highest two gamers are as sturdy as they’re, and have in sure circumstances a really, very discrete concentrate on doing offers and different issues that sort of make being Xbox laborious for us as a workforce, [and] that is on us, not on anyone else.”
He added: “I see commentary that should you simply constructed nice video games every little thing would flip round. It is simply not true that if we go off and construct nice video games then impulsively you are going to see console share shift in some dramatic manner. We misplaced the worst era to lose within the Xbox One era the place all people constructed their digital library of video games. So, whenever you go and also you’re constructing on Xbox, we would like our Xbox group to really feel superior, however this concept that if we simply targeted extra on nice video games on our console that by some means we will win the console race, I believe would not actually lay into the fact of most individuals.” Spencer claimed that 90% of the individuals who purchase a console yearly already personal a PlayStation, Nintendo or Xbox console, and their digital sport library lives on that ecosystem.
