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Interview: Head of Xbox Phil Spencer, Talking Xbox Series X – Unlocked 437

Live from Phil's living room, IGN talks about Xbox and more.

NewMonday1521d ago (Edited 1521d ago )

Phil is actually a great guy focused on his platform, It's McCaffery who keeps baiting him into PS5 talk. the same for some hardcore XB fans who only want to force compare asymmetrical systems.

the XBSX is a great SUV.
the PS5 is a great sedan.

they are differently built.

ThinkThink1521d ago

I like this analogy. Can both sides just agree that both systems will be awesome?

NewMonday1521d ago (Edited 1521d ago )

I'v been hard on Xbox last generation like most gamers, but can admit they cleaned up their act and they do the best job they can. while the the same time Sony are still on form, and Nintendo also refocused on their strength.

I can't understand the need to declare a winner even before the next generation starts.

darthv721521d ago

Yeah that analogy is better than mine (the cheetah and lion) that I used a few times. I agree that both (all three in fact) are going to go about their ways the best they can. And we all win because of it.

LOGICWINS1521d ago

That's the consensus for most people. I'd happily get both if I had the time to enjoy both.

SyntheticForm1521d ago

Agreed.

Both companies are putting out great hardware and I'm looking forward to getting my hands on both. I love new hardware - specifically consoles. There's something about em.

Even my new car can't compete with these things really.

SyntheticForm1521d ago

@darth

They're both lions though - they're just different lions. Both consoles are very significant improvements. The SSDs and CPUs are great.

medman1520d ago

@thinkthink
I agree! I'm planning to buy both of them, hopefully they both release in 2020.

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343_Guilty_Spark1521d ago

They use the same architecture. A more valid analogy is a Honda Pilot vs an V6 Acura MDX. They share the same drivetrain. One has a quick V4 smooth ride...the other is more luxurious with a faster V6.

Zeref1521d ago (Edited 1521d ago )

Nah, XBX is just superior in every way except raw SSD speeds.
Stop trying to make up excuses for the PS5s lack of power.
Xbox is faster and more powerful. There is no sugarcoating anything.

There is no secret sauce that magically makes the PS5 on par with the Series X. The Series X has just as many optimization features if not more than the PS5, like VRS, which is a huge deal that could result in 20-30 percent better framerates. is not even mentioned for the PS5 and Series X has a unique decompression method called "BCpack" that is far superior to Kraken, that could actually make up for the raw SSD speeds,
PS5 is just the weaker console. There is no damage controlling this.

Xbox just out-engineered Sony, plain and simple.

I am not saying the PS5 is a bad console. It's just weaker. Sony will still come out with their great single player games that make owning it worth it over Xbox. I just need yall to get that through your thick skulls. They're not "just built different", Series X is just more powerful and that's it.

Spicyram1521d ago (Edited 1521d ago )

"I just need yall to get that through your thick skulls."

When someone uses the word 'Yall' then proceeds to call others stupid - i see TREMENDOUS irony in that.

"which is a huge deal that could result in 20-30 percent better framerates"...."Xbox just out-engineered Sony, plain and simple."...."Series X has a unique decompression method called "BCpack" that is far superior to Kraken"

Basically, jumping to conclusions (we literally have very few details on BCpack) calling other people stupid while they are trying to have a civil conversation, who knows you could be correct, but calling other people stupid when we dont have all the info and jumping to conclusions makes YOU look stupid.

We havent even seen prices yet, yet Microsoft out-engineered Sony? What if the ps5 is 50-100$ dollars cheaper and performs nearly on par with the series x? "Out-engineered" - anyone can throw the most expensive and most modern tech into a box. There is still the issue of price. the real win will come with "bang for your buck" - you really need to relax and refrain from calling people stupid

TheBrit1521d ago

@spicyram I guess our skulls could be normal and some are just 'thinner' ??.

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Feedog61521d ago

Well said. Everyone keeps making excuses for Sony instead of keeping it real. XsX is the better console not taking anything away from ps5.

FyBy1520d ago

1)Even technicaly advanced people dont know, how XSX and PS5 can be compared. XSX has more teraflops by smaller percentage amount than it was between Pro ans XOX. And even there it wasnt a deal breaker(for Pro). I think also much bigger percentage difference between XO and PS4 wasnt a deal breaker(for XO). It doesnt simply matter too much. Anyway, XSX looks like maybe 15% faster in terms of TFs. So we will see, how this huuuuge difference will be used.

2)Out engineered? You know business plan of MS? Do you know how much will premium model cost? Do you think it will be same amount as a base model of PS (PS5)? I can too build much more pwoerful computer. But at what cost? Do you think Sony out engineered ms with PS3? It was more powerful. No, because PS3 was more expensive and even then Sony had no profit on selling it. So stop this BS about how some company out engineered other. If you look into history, most "most powerful" consoles struggled. Making something bigger with bigger numbers doeasnt always mean someone out engineered someone else.

medman1520d ago (Edited 1520d ago )

@zeref
If we say the xbox is more powerful, fine. The xbox certainly appears to have a fairly significant advantage on paper. To say it's "superior" is questionable at this early stage. We need to see gameplay. You can outrun a 2000 horsepower car in a grocery getter if all that cars power can't be put to the ground effectively, and all it does is spin tires in every gear losing traction, going nowhere. It remains to be seen how developers, both first and third party, will make use of both systems.

I'm looking forward to both systems and will buy both, but we're putting the cart before the horse when gameplay for the systems hasn't even been revealed yet.

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timotim1521d ago

And the best part is he said we should be hearing majority about the games from now, leading up til launch. I think this is what most gamers will see as the deciding factor. I want to know what will be there on launch but also what's coming in the first 6 months.

xX-oldboy-Xx1521d ago

If you've got an current gen xbox your covered mate - they'll support you for another 2 yrs! How's that for pro-consumer.

I'm looking forward to seeing the PS5 exclusives, so I know what to buy on launch day with my brand new console.

timotim1521d ago

More insecurity I see. Why come into a Phil Spencer interview article to downplay Xbox and talk up PS5?

Yes, pro consumerism. I do have a current Xbox, in fact I have two of them. I'm glad my 1X and 1S will play all games...I plan on keeping my consoles around for other rooms in the house so it'll be great and compliment my shiny new SX well.

i3eyond the Circle1521d ago

There’s an entire market of people that will upgrade because that’s what we do and an entire market of people who can’t at the time.

We created this demographic that there’s going to be people who won’t upgrade because Xbox
Is supporting their older platforms for 2 years.. when in reality people who buy in the first 2 years are people who would most likely buy in the first 2 years anyway...

xX-oldboy-Xx1521d ago

Just offering some solid advice - and I only spoke the truth. Also highlighting there is no deciding factor - no one needs to buy an xsx for 2 yrs!

A slight segue to speak of my intentions, this is a place where opinions are welcome is it not?

timotim1521d ago

LOL...thanks for the advice...I'm still getting an SX though haha. If thats the case, there was no reason to ever get a PS4 Pro, going your logic. But, gamers did so because they wanted something even better than base PS4.

Gamers want the best...faster load times, better graphics and effects, sound, performance and frames...SX will give gamers a superior experience...better than anything that ever been in a console...why wouldn't I want that?

xX-oldboy-Xx1521d ago

i3eyond - Just can't see the rush to upgrade to xsx. I can see why some will, like you said it's what some people do.

If someone has a xonex - and xsx boxes say xboxones, xboxonex, xboxsx supported - can you see why some wouldn't be in a rush to upgrade?

DJStotty1521d ago (Edited 1521d ago )

@oldboy

Why are current gen xbox owners only getting covered for another 2 years?

I'm curious, OH WAIT, is it the out of context comment about 1st party games over the next 1, 2 years will play up and down the family of devices?

In case you missed the memo, xbox have done away with console exclusives, as they actually announced a few E3's back. They want an ecosystem, whereas you buy a game once, and it will play on any Microsoft device you own.

That is exactly what we are seeing now.

"no one needs to buy an xsx for 2 yrs!" I see, as opposed to being forced to upgrade to play new games?

Who is the Pro-consumer?

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xX-oldboy-Xx1521d ago

That's brilliant mate - PS4Pro was never sold as a new generation of consoles.

Don't twist things for the sake of it haha

timotim1521d ago

Huh. Now just wait a second...if your going to open a can of worms be ready to deal with the reality. New generation or not, PS4 Pro played the same games as base PS4...right or wrong??? Pro just played them better...right or wrong??? The principles are the same right...its two consoles that play the same games, but one is superior...so if you didn't have a problem with upgrading to the Pro, why do you seem to have a problem now with those wanting to upgrade to an SX??? I didn't twist a damn thing...its the same difference! Why not keep that same energy?

xX-oldboy-Xx1521d ago

If Sony released a new console - not an iteration of a current gen console - I'd expect it to be supported day 1 with exclusives only playable on the new console.

It is not 'the same difference' - don't you understand what a console generation entails?

They have a beginning and an end. How hard is this to follow?

Either way Sony AND Nintendo will still outsell the xbox family of consoles.

DJStotty1521d ago

Oldboy

Think you need to get with the times, it is not Sega vs Nintendo anymore.

And even then Nintendo did backwards compatibility, it is nothing new, and most people will not buy a new console, just to play an exclusive.

timotim1520d ago

You're hiding behind semantics boy. I'm talking about the principles, which does not change when you're talking existing gen vs new gen. Nor was I talking about console sales at all. I'm talking about how you're completely comfortable with supporting the idea of a PS4 Pro when Sony does a superior console that plays the same games, yet now, want to come off as if its forbidden or a terrible idea when Microsoft does it. At no point did you condemn the Pro for its principles that the console stood for. You have no problem playing cross-gen games on PS5 because you understand that most 3rd party games will be...and when Sony puts LoU2 and Ghost, among others on PS5, you won't have a problem there either. You'll say yeah, but they will also have exclusives at launch...could very well be the case, but none of them will be doing things from a design standpoint that couldn't already be done on current gen, outside of visuals...something all of XGS games will take advantage of on SX.

xX-oldboy-Xx1520d ago

timotim - ok mate I've tried to be nice. YOU'RE the one talking semantics, you silly drip.

THIS IS A NEW CONSOLE GENERATION, THIS IS NOT A MID-GEN UPGRADE. 3RD PARTIES HAVE HAD CROSS-GEN TITLES SINCE PS3/4.

Yes I'm completely, unequivocally, happy to buy a mid-gen upgrade if it's going to improve my gaming experience.

I'M ALSO HAPPY IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SONY WILL RELEASE A NEW CONSOLE IN THE FUTURE AND SUPPORT THAT CONSOLE WITH EXCLUSIVES FROM THE WORLDCLASS 1S PARTY STUDIOS.

That's the point of it all numptie, straight you guys and gals on team xbox are pieces of work.

Never in all of console gaming history has the manufacturer not supported that console with exclusives on launch day. And especially for 2 yrs after the launch.

AGAIN - you see that as a good thing, I SEE THAT AS A REASON NOT TO UPGRADE.

timotim1520d ago

🤔🤔🤔….. nope....still upgrading to a SX.

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Automatic791521d ago

Love the lazer focus Xbox team has. Not worried about competition focusing on Xbox and only Xbox. Shift from hardware to games talk now. Expect steady stream of games content.

alb18991521d ago

I just don't know how a gamer doesn't like Spencer.

xX-oldboy-Xx1521d ago

Maybe because he lies with a straight face, and keeps doing it. He's a grub.

rlow11521d ago

That's the best you can come up with? Lol

FloydianAndroid1521d ago

Are you a rock troll or more of an ice troll?

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xX-oldboy-Xx1521d ago

DogsBower - Really? Beyond all the rhetoric of empty promises, the overblown and BS claims that were perpetuated for most of the gen - Power Of The Cloud being the most obvious - was and is an absolute lie.

AngelicIceDiamond1521d ago

What did he lie about? Before you say Cloud Flight Simulator is full blown cloud tech. So what did he lie about?

waverider1521d ago

dont tell them truth. they cant handle. after the worst gen ever, they still think he is genious. lost all marketshare, sales are dead in the water and for the second time straight thinks that teraflops will make gamers jump ship and buy the console. after the X and series X, im gonna wait for..... the triple X,

DJStotty1521d ago

@oldboy

As a Sony fanboy, i can get why you think he lies.

xX-oldboy-Xx1520d ago

Angelic - DJ - don't you remember how hard ms pushed 'The Power Of The Cloud' - you also must know who was front and centre in that charade.

You guys really are gluttons for punishment, Phil lies to your face on multiple occasions and you give him a free pass.

He's a salesman without integrity, a spineless company man - wish you guys could see through him.

But alas you need some hope I guess.

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Trying to push players over from PC to console is a terrible idea, PlayStation

As PlayStation announces its new strategy to encourage PC users to choose PS5 it is a bitter-sweet moment for PC gamers.

Christopher17h ago

I mean, it's a business based on hardware market. Do we expect them to not even try? It's not like Nintendo doesn't do the same by not putting any games on PC and Microsoft until recently did the same. I don't care what they attempt, as long as they don't abuse the community or lie about their goals/requirements.

Will it work? Not likely. Should we care? No. Let them waste their time, it doesn't affect anything.

RaidenBlack17h ago

let them try ... at the end of the day, we get few extra PC games ... yay ... and also promotes game preservation via PC ... so double yay.

LordoftheCritics45m ago

If only Playstation games provided the ease of pc gaming features.

Primary being very few PS games support m/kb.

Fishy Fingers16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

I wish them the best of luck.

But PC players are often a patient bunch, many will even wait for Epic launcher exclusivity to end until a game comes to Steam.

If they didnt buy the console when its games were exclusive, why would they do it now theyre not?

MrNinosan2h ago

Way more do than you probably think.

ravens522h ago

All you need is that one game that'll make a few switch at a time. Like a game a PC player REALLY wants.

-Foxtrot16h ago

PC gamers are just too patient and loyal to their gaming set ups, something they've spent a lot of money on to perfect. They have backlogs of games which many never get round to finishing or get round to at all and will always have other multiplatform releases to keep them going.

Over the many years Sony has published so many awesome titles such as The Last of Us, Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Infamous, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, Dreams, Puppeteer, Resistance, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo, Motor Storm, God of War, Horizon, Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, Bloodborne

If none of those games BEFORE all these PC ports convinced a hardcore PC gamer to get a PS5 console then why on Earth would porting them them to PC now make any difference? All PC gamers now know 100% is that they just have to be patient, which they are good at anyway to get a PS5 game 2 years later.

I get GaaS games or multiplayer focused titles but if people really want to play these games they'd have gotten a PS console years ago.

helicoptergirl15h ago

Who cares? Then just stay on PC and play the waiting game. No big deal. Sony wins in the end anyway.

Number1TailzFan15h ago

I mean if there's any single player Sony games that I actually want that aren't on PC then I would buy said console to play them on. But the ones that I like that aren't on PC are few and far between anyway so no loss for me.

If I game, it's usually multiplayer titles, otherwise I like playing around with some other software.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken6d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty6d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken6d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty6d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken6d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0076d ago (Edited 6d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken6d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot5d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto5d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer5d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek5d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken5d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie5d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12086d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast6d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit6d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export6d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2036d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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