Spencer explains Windows gaming absence at E3
Phil Spencer told Polygon that this doesn't reflect shifting priorities for Microsoft, but rather attention to the venue.
"E3's a retail show," Spencer said. "It's a retail show, it's a console show, so it didn't really feel like the right place for us to talk about Windows, but Windows and gaming on Windows is critical to Microsoft's success."
Spencer isn't just in charge of Xbox - he's head of all the companies gaming efforts, which he feels are strong in different ways.
"When we're doing gaming strategy, gaming focus inside the company, that's my job," Spencer said. "I think in a lot of ways, you could argue gaming on Windows has never been more healthy in that the biggest of the big franchises, League of Legends, World of Tanks, those things dwarf a lot of what we're doing in this console space in terms of users and monetization. They're all on PC."
Spencer said in April that gaming could help revitalize Microsoft as a consumer brand, doing for it what the iPod did for Apple.
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MusketPosted:
I can see why, As it would be harder to present PC Games with all the announcements for console games.
MissPosted:
AR15Miss That makes sense to why he didn't. I don't think I would have talked about it either at a console focused show.
Which is exactly why there wasn't any PC presence. No one there cares about PC. It's a console show, so it would waste MS's time and the hosters of E3's time.
Well people do care about PC gaming as it is very popular. But no one watches E3 expecting to hear anything about PC games.
AR15Posted:
Miss That makes sense to why he didn't. I don't think I would have talked about it either at a console focused show.
Which is exactly why there wasn't any PC presence. No one there cares about PC. It's a console show, so it would waste MS's time and the hosters of E3's time.
slapshot101Posted:
I really wasn't expecting them to show anything PC related at E3. I really don't see how gaming can do what the iPod did for Apple because it was a huge change and a whole new concept but video games both PC and consoles are already pretty common and they are not really making anything new and completely "game" changing.
DivePosted:
Miss That makes sense to why he didn't. I don't think I would have talked about it either at a console focused show.
Yeah would've of been silly, people would lose interest as the majority of them would've been console gamers.
MissPosted:
That makes sense to why he didn't. I don't think I would have talked about it either at a console focused show.
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