Whereas claiming that “the console is the core of the Xbox model,” Microsoft’s head of gaming has reiterated the corporate must give attention to the broader gaming market if it is to achieve success. From a report: Through 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 incorrect to assume that simply constructing nice console titles may assist it overtake Sony and Nintendo by way of {hardware} gross sales. As an alternative, it has chosen to pursue a unique technique to the Japanese firms, one centered on fulfilling builders’ imaginative and prescient of enabling prospects to play their video games on any display. “We’re not within the enterprise of out-consoling Sony or out-consoling Nintendo,” Spencer stated. “There is not actually a fantastic resolution or win for us. And I do know that may upset a ton of individuals, but it surely’s simply the reality of the matter that once 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 give attention to doing offers and different issues that type of make being Xbox arduous for us as a group, [and] that is on us, not on anyone else.”
He added: “I see commentary that should you simply constructed nice video games all the things would flip round. It is simply not true that if we go off and construct nice video games then swiftly you are going to see console share shift in some dramatic manner. We misplaced the worst technology to lose within the Xbox One technology the place all people constructed their digital library of video games. So, once 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 centered extra on nice video games on our console that one way or the other we will win the console race, I feel would not actually lay into the truth 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.
