Xbox Boss Admits Microsoft Can't 'Outconsole' PS5 | Push Square
In a rather eye-opening interview with Kinda Funny Games, Xbox boss Phil Spencer basically admits that Microsoft's gaming arm can't directly compete with Sony and Nintendo. It's fairly common knowledge that in the current generation of consoles, the PS5 is comfortably outselling the Xbox Series X|S, but it's still quite surprising to hear Spencer sound so deflated by current trends.
Essentially, the talkative exec says that he's well aware of Xbox's current position, and, as Spencer's said before, the team in green has little choice but to find its own path to potential success, rather than following in PlayStation's shadow.
«We want Xbox to be something that people who buy our consoles can feel like members of a full ecosystem. We're fully committed to that. We're not in the business of 'out-consoling Sony or Nintendo', there's not a win or solution for us,» Spencer explains (as transcribed by ResetEra).
He goes on to say that simply making good games isn't the solution to Microsoft's problems, despite what a lot of gamers might think. «It's not true that if we go up and build great games, that you'll see console shares go up massively,» Spencer states. «If we focused on great games, that doesn't mean we'll win the console race.»
The Xbox boss' comments are bound to raise more than a few eyebrows, and it goes even further: «There is no world where something like Starfield is a 11/10 and it'll lead people selling their consoles.»
In essence, Spencer is saying that PlayStation and Nintendo are so embedded in the gaming ecosystem that Xbox can't really go toe-to-toe. Indeed, he suggests that the previous console generation was a turning point. The PS4 outsold the Xbox One by a significant margin, and that momentum has
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