What is Major Nelson thinking here?
He was just trying to cover his ass and job.
"Amazing. He dresses worse than me."
build wall
>>319417036
I should get this mole checked one of these days
>>319417036
"I'm going to deport this fucking beaner if he doesn't stop asking me retarded questions."
>>319417036
>I am nailing this interview
>>319421727
Stern Bern gets BTFO
>>319417036
"Who is this loud mouth fucking idiot and why is he asking me questions?"
"I should have taken Geoff Keighley's advice."
>>319417036
"What's this guy's name again?"
>>319423461
I'll need to see more of this as research for a project I'm working on.
>>319423647
Yeah yeah, whatever
http://wattchewant.tumblr.com/post/80666887568/well-heres-another-elite-animation-nothing
>>319417036
"Get this fat spic out of my face."
"I can't believe I'm being interviewed by some faggot who's job is to play video games."
"Fuck this industry. I'm gonna go unbox some shit."
>>319417036
"Was it right to wear plaid with this business suit?"
>>319423647
Sangheili mating rituals?
>>319417036
What's this guys name again?
>>319425848
Major Nelson.
>>319417036
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot9SYHVdXTk
Never forget 2013
>>319423580
Angry pedro
>>319423067
He was right though, it is simple to disable the DRM and they did it shortly after
What is Phil Spencer thinking here?
Why everyone working at Microsoft have such a punchable face?
>>319429606
Yeah, of course it's simple to do, but it just didn't fit in with their idea for the console at the time. It would've made all the features they were advertising kinda pointless.
>>319429816
>MWAHAHAH MICROSOFT THEATER, MICROSOFT BOSS AWARDING THE MICROSOFT GAME, THE PERFECT PLAN
>>319417036
Who the fuck is this faggot?
Get off the fucking stage.
>>319429816
>i wish i was at home, playing Halo 5
>>319429606
Nelson was right that it's not just a simple switch. I'll bet MS designers and programmers had to go through quite a bit of pain to "disable DRM".
>>319417036
4 HOURS
>>319429816
BloodBTFO
>>319417036
>What is Major Nelson thinking here?
>I hope this spic doesnt call it xbone or I will cry, Trump cant win soon enough, he smells like farts and week old tacos
>>319430225
Phil thinks otherwise
http://gamerant.com/xbox-one-xbone-name-microsoft/
>>319429816
>w-why won't anybody buy an Xbone...
>Halo 5...
>>319430159
>add // to the line of code that stops the user from accessing his xbone games
>wow that was a pain
>>319430339
hahaha he's so cool
>>319429816
>what if its bloodborne
>shit what if its bloodborne
>HAHAHAH EAT MY DICK SHUHEI
>>319430159
>I'll bet MS designers and programmers had to go through quite a bit of pain to "disable DRM".
kek
>>319417036
>>319421727
I hate that stupid underbite. I hate the way he puts his pinky up when he takes the microphone. I hate the way he scratches the back of his head with one finger. I hate the way he takes the mic away like it's his. Fuck I hate this guy.
>>319430339
I feel bad for Phil, he really tried, but it was imposible to save the xbone from the madness Mattrick left the xbox brand in
>>319431170
He's a piece of shit.
>>319429816
I want to marry Phil!
>>319431223
he then went on to fuck up Zynga. Fired 15% of the staff only to have the stock continue to flatline. His pay package was 50$ million...
>>319431223
>>319431223
I honestly think he should leave M$. They're a sinking ship.
>>319431223
what really fucking annoys me is that his entire reign solidified the reputation of the xbox, the dewritos and cod and tv bullshit
not things like mechassault
not things like phantom dust
not things like the (formerly) good online community
not people like j allard
mattrick
if the xbone fully redeems itself by the end of this console gen, ill be happy, but until now fuck mattrick
>>319431785
he should go to sony and try to save the vita, I bet it has more chances to survive than the xbone
>>319431785
he got fired from MS and replaced by someone who actually gives a shit about vidya
he went to Zynga and tanked them as well
>>319431861
>good online community
>Xbox Live
Nah, that's never been true.
>>319417036
"That looks like a really old jacket, poor guy must be angry about his financial situation"
>>319432149
kek
>>319432042
Rainbow Six Vegas and Chromehounds andHalo 3 custom gamessay otherwise
>>319431957
I'm talking about Phil. However, he is probably M$'s best chance at becoming relevant. I hope they're paying him a lot to make sure he doesn't go anywhere. I genuinely like him, and I don't even own an Xbone. He's probably one of the few genuinely likable business execs out there.
M$ would be doomed in the console market without him.
>>319432042
I dont know about you, but the mechassault live community was great, most people were friendly and nice in the early years of live, then halo 2 destroyed live with 10yo screaming in the mic invading almost every game
>>319432274
>Rainbow Six Vegas
I'll concede to your point in that case. Halo 3 was kind of a mixed bag.
>>319432465
Halo, COD, and SF are probably the three major franchises responsible for Xbox Live's shitty reputation.
>>319432363
Phils knows shit
Theres one vid where he was recorded without knowing and hes geeking out about Robin Beanlands music and vidya soundtracks, its shit like that where you can see the difference between some bullshit exec and somebody who genuinely cares about making good vidya
In nearly every interview he does he keeps talking about how he wants MS' game studios to be brave and creative again, thats why at those game awards he grinned like a bitch, because an MS game won the art award
>>319432851
https://youtu.be/He01GLhV4Fg
you mean at 28m 48s?
>>319432851
>>319433094
Aww man.
Shit like this makes me optimistic about the Xbone's future, despite the rough start.
Sony needs somebody like this guy. Like who in Sony's upper management is even close to this right now?
"XBOX, LARGE"
>>319433094
B
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>>319431223
>it's the "Mattick is responsible for everything wrong with XBONE and Phil Spencer is a saint who is saving gaming" maymay
You are literally LITERALLY falling for marketing.
>>319433331
yoshida is probably the closest sony equivalent to spencer in "knowing shit about vidya, being skilled at vidya and being likeable"
PHIL PHIL PHIL PHIL PHIL PHIL PHIL
PHIL NYE THE XBOX GUY
>>319433832
phils GOAT you autist
>>319431861
>not things like the (formerly) good online community
As someone who's been on XBL since beta, the community was never good.
>>319433619
w-what? even mattrick said the xbone disaster was his fault, and no one ever said Phil is a saint, I in particular said that I feel bad for him for being working hard for a dying brand
>>319433094
Awesomedavid wise is better
>>319433934
Pic related, not autism or marketing
>>319431893
sure is neogaf in here
>>319433094
the only bad thing is that hes surrounded by turds like Aaron Greenberg, who know virtually fucking nothing about vidya except provoking smarmy Neogaf threads.
Notice how when he said that about the music, nobody carried on his conversation and expanded on, they just kind of nodded without really understanding.
>>319434003
Yes, one single person is responsible for the entire direction of a major product for one if the biggest companies in the entire world.
Don Mattick basically tied up all department heads and the board of directors and forced them to watch as he purposefully ruined the XBONE with his vision.
Thankfully Phil Spencer was there just in time to save everybody and the XBONE and lead the major product for the leading software company entire with his own personal vision.
Thank you, Phil.
>>319433094
I think he is proof that you don't have to sell all of your soul to be a business man
I mean, look at Mattrick. The guy used to actually make video games.
>With Jeff Sember, Mattrick co-founded Distinctive Software, Inc. (DSI) in 1982 at the age of 17. He implemented games such as Test Drive for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and PC DOS. DSI became known for racing and sports games until it was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1991.[5][6]
I think EA is what changed him.
>>319434265
Phil Spencer, J Allard and Peter Moore and Seamus Blackley knew EXACTLY what people wanted.
To an extent Kudo Tsunoda (the WABAM kinect guy) surprisingly had good knowledge of vidya.
the following is a blacklist of who to avoid whenever their names come up:
Yusuf Mehdi
Aaron Greenberg
Don Mattrick
Adam Orth
Crapgamerreviews
>>319434419
*in the entire world
>>319434529
This Kudo Tsunoda?
>>319434419
seamus blackley confirmed on a IGN podcast that phil and don had an altercation about TV and DRM taking precedent over xbone
phil wanted game-first multimedia-second like J allard
don was firing everyone who didnt agree with him, phil only got away with it because he was a long-time MS veteran
tldr: phil went along with it, but he fucking hated it and confirmed several times how much he hated it
>>319434419
>xbone
>being able to be saved
>yfw Phil gets rid of world hunger and achieves world peace
Feels good supporting the Xbox Won
>>319434793
>he actually believes the PR
Phil Spencer is a saint, a SAINT
>>319434419
It's not about how much control they actually have over the product, it's how they present themselves. Mattrick actually went out of his way to insult the intelligence of his consumer base. I think the Xbone wouldn't have been half the disaster it was if it weren't for faggots like him, Nelson and Adam Orth creating as much bad blood with consumers as possible. Every other article was about something stupid one of them said or them bactracking on certain policies seeming overnight.
>>319434793
This
>>319434793
That podcast was fucking great, would be so cool if nintendo and sony had one like it
>>319434976
is this some sort of tactic the xbots are using to deflect criticism against the xbox brand?
>>319434419
You're an idiot. Mattrick was able to do what he did because Balmer agreed with him. He had total control over the Xbox vision and Balmer was all about moving away from games and hardware and pushing Xbox as a service. Balmer had been pushing Microsoft as a whole in the direction for a long time, it wasn't until Mattrick was fired and Balmer resigned that Microsoft and by extension Xbox started to improve.
Phil Spencer runs the division and it shows because the Xbox has steadily been improving since.
>>319433094
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>>319434431
Don Mattrick also made the MS-DOS version of Metal Gear 1, Mattrick was always a mistake, literally the only exec who was unanimously hated by his own fanbase apart from Sakurai
>>319430752
half way through codeacademy already bud?
keep it up!
>>319434946
>yfw Phil finds a cure for slanteye and turns Yoshida Shuhei into Joshua Sutter and Satoru Iwata into Samuel Isaacs (RIP) and Sony & Nintendo become part of the XBOX brand
Phil is love, Phil is life
>>319434714
I bet halo is proud
>>319421727
Nelson's such an asshole
>"HOW DO YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT THE DEVS, IT'S NOT SO EASY"
>less than a week later
>"So yeah we'll just patch out the always on, it's a 2 minute fix"
>>319435278
also helps that Nadella and Spencer came in at the same time and Nadella was openly curious with all this shit
Apparently when Nadella went to E3 2015 he was 1000% behind Xbone because "its the only microsoft product capable of producing such applause and enthusiasm"
poo in the loo and big dick spencer combined at the perfect time
>>319435278
Yes, Mattrick was allowed FREE REIGN over the entire Xbox division and nobody, not even the investors or directors, could do a thing to stop him.
That is until PHIL showed up!
>>319435516
It was simcity all over again
>>319435729
The investors frequently questioned Balmer and put pressure on him about it and all the other dumb shit he did. That's why he resigned, the board was gonna fire him.
>>319435729
to quote several insiders during 2012:
"Mattrick is a tyrant, he fires people left and right, is eccentric and lives in a huge mansion"
Also idiotic investors were behind TV and DRM bullshit all the way
Everyone at MS fucking despised him, its only until E3 2014 that employees started being noticeably happy again, apparently when Halo: MCC was announced one member of staff was close to tears because for the first time his products were being cheered since 2008, Halo: MCC ended up having its own problems at launch, but still point stands
>>319435987
nope, investors were all the way behind it
its the backlash that caused him fucking off
the people funding windows 8 era MS, were as stupid as youd think
>>319436008
>Halo: MCC was announced one member of staff was close to tears
I hope he was close to tears when people BOOurns their 15GB release day patch that solved nothing
Xbone is the PS3 of this generation.
>>319436008
>Everyone at MS fucking despised him, its only until E3 2014 that employees started being noticeably happy again, apparently when Halo: MCC was announced one member of staff was close to tears because for the first time his products were being cheered since 2008, Halo: MCC ended up having its own problems at launch, but still point stands
jesus christ
being at MS mustve been rough during the kinect era
>>319436284
Yep
I hope Spencer remains as Head of Xbox for as long as possible, he's the only thing that would stop them going down that arrogant shithole that the 360 and now the PS4 is going through
>>319436306
Had a friend that interned at MS. He said it was nightmarish. Super cut throat, couldn't trust anybody because they would throw you down a well for a scrap of bread. Nobody seemed happy to be there. Dunno what it's like now but that was back shortly after the Xbone reveal.
>>319433094
phils awright
>>319430225
That was the point
>>319436539
I havent heard a single peep of bad PR around MS since Satya took over apart from W10 privacy
But it is MS, its not a matter of if, its a matter of when theyll trip up
>>319417036
>"what was his name again?"
>Microsoft announces game for PC and Xbone
>totally open about it, happy to share their games with Windows users
>in fact actively advertise it
Vs
>Sony has games coming for PS4 and PC
>do their best to hide it
>act like PC doesn't actually exist when talking about their shared games
Based MS
It's ridiculously ironic to say, but despite M$ demanding we all suck their cock at the beginning of the generation, they turned out to be the most customer-friendly out of the three companies about a year or so later.
>>319436747
Every company trips up. What matters is the severity of it. I don't see MS fucking up like it did in he final Balmer years.
>>319417036
"Please leave me alone, Joe."
>>319436901
Thats mainly because Xbox is going into a service as opposed to just being a piece of hardware now.
There will be another Xbox console, its been confirmed now, but its going to co-exist with Windows and its all going into the same ecosystem with crossbuy/crossplay, hence why Phil keeps promoting shit like KB+M and kind of easing people into "being able to play on whatever device they want"
its really fucking risky, but if killer instinct works good on PC then it should play out well
>>319437113
Turns out consumers like having more than one platform to play on.
>>319431223
I fucking hate this guy's face, looks like Tom Cruise with down syndrome.
>>319417036
>Damn, when did we start letting monkeys onto the show stage, is a new Viva Piñata coming out or something?
>This poor Brazilian smells like shit, I probably shouldn't let him into the backstage showers though because he'll shit on the floor
>My feet hurt
>>319436975
>XBOX 2013
>cant use the games you own without bullshit
>expensive gimmicks
>CoD maps
>PS4 2013
>Lets you use physical and digital games without restrictions
>Huge focus on games
>Promise of creative and innovative first party ip's
now its
>XBOX 2015
>Lets you use physical and digital games without restrictions
>Huge focus on games
>Promise of creative and innovative first party ip's
>>319436975
>PS4 2015
>cant use the games you own without bullshit
>expensive gimmicks
>CoD maps
>>319433094
hahaha, adam boyes slightly cautious of an xbox journalist infiltrating his territory
>>319437452
It's typical Sony hubris though.
>PS2 does very well
>think they can sell their customers anything
>PS3 is an overpriced no games machine for the first half of its life
>Sony desperately claws it's way back by being humble and focusing on games
>eventually overtakes Xbox because of Mattrick and his Kinect obsession
>get cocky as fuck again
>release PS4 and taunt Microsoft
>sell gangbusters on the virtue of not being Microsoft
>once again an overpriced no games station
>ahead in sales though so they don't give a fuck
The Xbone will overtake the PS4 by the end of the generation. I guarantee it.
>>319434793
>tfw when Don Mattrick and Yusuf Mehdi was working on utter bullshit, Phil was talking to Kamiya about Scalebound, SWERY about D4 and helping Iron Galaxy build Killer Instinct
>>319437880
also overseeing rare building sea of thieves
and overseeing moon studios build ori and the blind forest
and overseeing reagant games build crackdown 3
andfiring the shitty team behind the phantom dust reboot
>>319437452
>XBOX 2015
>Lets you use physical and digital games without restrictions
>Huge focus on games
>Promise of creative and innovative first party ip's
And it only took the xbone to almost die to make this changes, not to mention its selling like dog turds
>cant use the games you own without bullshit
what?
>>319437880
Spencer understands his market.
>>319437837
>The Xbone will overtake the PS4 by the end of the generation. I guarantee it.
Honestly, I doubt that, but I am sure the difference between the console sales is going to be lower at the ond of the generation
>>319438031
>>319438031
Yeah it took Don Mattrick almost destroying the brand and getting fired and a new CEO to fix the problems. That's how shit works.
PS4 requires you to pay for your old games again if you want to play them. It won't read PS2/3 discs. Instead you have to pay to stream them, and it's more of a rental than owning the game.
>>319437837
i can see xbone overtaking PS4 in NA
but it wont beat PS4 overall, Sony owns so many different territories where xbone struggles massively
as long as they just carry on the way they are though, thats fucking great, people seem happy with it
>>319437880
Thank fuck Nadella is behind it all as well
The fact they just went and bought Minecraft one day shows they arent fucking around
>>319438257
NA and UK*, UK and NA are Xbox territory and kept the 360 going all by themself.
>>319438493
Well Xbox will never beat Nintendo or Sony in Japan. It will just never happen.
>>319438593
>>319438593
nope, theres only three things i can name that japan likes from the US
apple, star wars and twin peaks
they arent ever getting that slice of the pie, the MSX only did well because it was built by microsoft japan
>>319438593
Nah all they can do is work with japanese developers.
Which is what they did with the 360, they had relationships building with Sega, Mistwalker, Capcom, Namco, really fucking good relationships as well.
One guess who decided to throw that away.
The Xbox keeps getting better. Every event they announce a slew of games and features coming out. Sony has just been sitting on their asses screaming "THE GAMES ARE COMING GUYS". But the only PS4 exclusives coming in the next year are Ratchet and Clank and Uncharted 4. It's like the post-Kinect 360. They think that because they're in the lead they can get complacent. Instead they should be using that lead to win more.
>>319417036
Wait a minute that hand posture....
>>319438746
KFC
>>319439068
imagine a console race where NO developer ever got complacent
imagine if Sony, Nintendo and MS were all going balls to the wall, how fucking good that would be
>>319438237
>PS4 requires you to pay for your old games again if you want to play them. It won't read PS2/3 discs. Instead you have to pay to stream them, and it's more of a rental than owning the game.
But no one is forcing you to use that feature, and if you are like me you still have your ps3 or even the ps2 around to play last gen games and ps2 classics if you ever got them, not to mention sony never announced the ps4 would be able to run ps3 and ps2 disc games, so its not like they bait and switched people around those features.
Its a kike thing to do to only allow people to use those games using psnow, but to be jewed there has to be 2 people, the jew (sony) and the consumer (you) for it to work, and if people refuse to sub to psnow sony might be forced to patch ps2 classics to be able to run in the ps4
>>319433094
Phil replied to my idea of a Mechassault sequel, he just said "sounds awesome" through a message on XBL
It was kind of an empty answer but its something
You retards do realize that he is PR for MS right?
>>319439238
I can't fathom why they don't. When your opponent is on the ropes you don't back off and give them a chance to get back in it, you go for the throat and finish it. So far this generation Sony has just sat back and not given a fuck and doesn't even consider anyone else an threat. Microsoft is slowly and steadily coming back and earning more positive public opinion with every event. Nintendo has gone full retard and decided they won't compete with anyone while also still trying to capture the core gaming audience. The fucked up thin is that Nintendo has the best exclusive titles by far but the WiiU and it's games are marketed so poorly that nobody cares about it. Instead of working to fix that problem Nintendo is ditching it for a new system and making the same mistake Sega did.
>>319439318
>Its a kike thing to do to only allow people to use those games using psnow, but to be jewed there has to be 2 people, the jew (sony) and the consumer (you) for it to work, and if people refuse to sub to psnow sony might be forced to patch ps2 classics to be able to run in the ps4
But thats the thing, Sony fanboys never complain, you get apologetic threads on Neogaf, people making excuses for them, more people encouraging it.
It really does sound like im making some bullshit generalization, but with the Xbone DRM everyone slammed it, with that Metroid Prime Pinball game everyone slammed it, with things like Vue and PS Now its thumbs up across the board.
>>319431785
>uses "M$"
>calls them a "sinking ship"
>still assumes he has any credibilty
kill yourself
>>319439716
Metroid Prime Federation Force I mean
>>319439318
Sony will never patch it because Sony doesn't care. When Sony is ahead they historically just don't give a fuck.
>>319439715
>>319439715
i was fucking mindblown when i heard that they were charging for PS2 BC
like if you did that uprendering and trophy addition for free, and implemented it exactly like MS did (region free, physical+disk etc), you wouldve got the upper hand
but their job is to make money so, fuck it im not surprised, it'll sell
>>319439458
What were you even expecting?
>>319429816
>you will never wear cool clothes and go fishing with phil and talk about vidya
>you will never lose that faggot major nelson one night and spend all night looking at the stars with phil
>youll never receive the warm embrace of phil spencer
>>319440314
Absolutely nothing, its just kind of respectable to even receive a reply.
Im a fucking huge Mechassault fan and was trying to show demand for a sequel.
>>319417036
he's onto us. fuck. deflect. deflect.
>>319439753
you know people has been using M$ to refer to microsoft since the 90s, right? right?
i just want an xbone slim and a rebranding of the entire console
especially around the release of scalebound+recore+crackdown
>>319439475
Most of the people in these threads are generally underage and have never worked in a company in their lives. No self respecting adult worships a corporate employee, its strictly reserved for children (manchildren), neet and ofcourse other employees.
>>319441127
>implying Phil isnt gorgeous by his own merit
>implying Phil shouldnt have his own swimsuit calendar
>>319437393
He looks like a mix of Spenny from KvS, Tom Cruise and AIDS
