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Once Team Xbox, always Team Xbox. Thank you for everything Phil. 💚

Phil Spencer - P3 on Xbox@xboxp3.bsky.social

It’s rare in life to know when a chapter is closing, but after 38 years at Microsoft, that moment has arrived for me. I’ve made the decision to retire and begin the next chapter of my life.

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I’m considering getting rid of my xbox because of this, I used to think xbox had a future but it’s just circling the drain with ai generated slop and corpo bullshit. It was fun while it lasted but good things never last.

Microsoft gave a lot of gamers the middle finger putting a AI slop pusher in charge. Hope xboxAI flops super hard. No one is believes anything the new AI slop head is saying.

I had the pleasure of working with Matt Booty a million years ago back at Midway. He's a great guy that has come up through the trenches of game development, and it shows. I'm happy he's going to be taking on a larger role. Good luck everyone!

I haven't worked for XBox for a long time, but making hardware is very difficult if your aren't doing it all the time. My feeling a few years ago was that they would release a "reference" spec (ie must be able to do this many tris/sec etc...) and let 3rd parties build the hardware for Game Pass.

I'll tell you the truth. Team Xbox found out their PC Xbox hybrid was going to be too expensive because of the ram shortage caused by AI data centers. So Sasha killed it. He then told Phill retirement was happening immediately because they no longer had a product roadmap. Sarah rightly jumped ship.

After you guys ran Halo into the dirt and COD, I will never own another Xbox anything. You had it all. You got greedy. Xbox can go the way of Sega. Stop wasting our time with your garbage promises. Phil can kick rocks and find another company to ruin.

Head of AI taking over? As a long time Xbox fan since the OG model way back when.... I'm not feeling this at all. Seems like rocky (rockier?) roads ahead.

You’re gonna flounder for years while you try to figure out how to make Xbox “AI-powered” because you couldn’t figure out how to “leverage the blockchain” a couple years ago and Phil said “nah, I’m good”. How close am I?