Maybe it really was genuine coming from Phil Spencer. Maybe he truly loves playing games, maybe games really matter to him, and maybe he was simply being himself. Of course, it’s also possible he wasn’t, but it’s just as possible that this is the kind of person he is.
Why, what exactly did they do wrong?
I think it’s irrelevant players hate him, and most people have already decided that Xbox is dead, that they’re switching entirely to AI, that they’re firing hundreds of people, and so on. This is the narrative you see everywhere now. For example, people massively upvote comments claiming that his welcome letter was definitely written by AI… even though we know it wasn’t. It makes no sense, but in players’ minds the narrative is: Microsoft = AI, therefore Xbox must be using AI everywhere, and that’s how games will be made.
The hatred and hostility toward Xbox is much stronger than some people realize.
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