Spencer: Xbox isn't trying to move players away from owning games
pcgamesinsider.bizThe head of Microsoft's games business, Phil Spencer, has said that the company isn't trying to disuade players from owning games.
Speaking to Xbox Era, the exec said that the firm isn't attempting to encourage consumers to move entirely towards subscription services, such as its own Xbox Game Pass. Spencer added that the idea was to give players options as to how they experience their titles.
The Xbox boss also addressed concerns that the company was moving away from being a hardware business to becoming more of a platform.
"I’ve got a library of games on Xbox console. I want to make sure I’ll continue to be able to play those games," he said.
"Are we going to still do hardware? Are we going to still get to play the games the way we’ve always played? Am I going to have to rent all my games? Can I still buy games? All that.
"I think we’ve shown respect for people’s libraries over the generations with back-compat and Play Anywhere, and I want to continue to do that. You can buy every game that’s in Game Pass, we’re not trying to funnel everybody into one business model. Play the games the way you want to play them.
"We obviously have to run a good business, so we’ll have our pricing and everything that we do, but I want to make as many options as possible for the games that we have. So they find more and more players. It’s why us embracing Windows and embracing Cloud has allowed us to grow. One of our fastest growing regions for us right now is Asia and it’s not because we’re selling more consoles in Asia, but through cloud and PC, we’re finding more users year over year than in any other place. The fastest kind of platform is Cloud."
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