Phil Spencer: "There is no world where Starfield is an 11 out of 10 and people start selling their PS5s"
eurogamer.netXbox boss Phil Spencer has insisted making great games won't help Microsoft catch up to Sony and Nintendo in the console race.
Microsoft's Xbox Series X and S currently lag behind Sony's PlayStation 5 and the Nintendo Switch, with sales struggling.
And after the disastrous launch of Redfall — something Spencer has personally apologised for — Microsoft faces increasingly tough questions over Microsoft's ability to regularly release high quality triple-A games, and the future growth of subscription service Game Pass.
In a video interview with Kinda Funny Games, below, Spencer explained why he believes Bethesda's Starfield potentially being a superb game will do little to help turn things around for Xbox.
«There is no world where Starfield is an 11 out of 10 and people start selling their PS5s,» he said. «That's not going to happen.»
But why not? Why wouldn't great first-party games from Xbox move the needle? According to Spencer, Xbox's fate was sealed after it lost the last generation.
«We lost the worst generation to lose in the Xbox One generation, where everybody built their digital library of games,» Spencer said.
«We want our Xbox community to feel awesome, but this idea that if we just focused more on great games on our console that somehow we're gonna win the console race, doesn't relate to the reality of most people.
»Like 90 percent of the people every year who walk into a retailer to buy a console are already a member of one of the three ecosystems. And their digital library is there. This is the first generation where the big games they're playing were games that were available last-gen. When you think about Fortnite and Roblox and Minecraft, the continuity from generation to generation is so strong.
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