Head of Xbox at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, has been talking to the press quite a lot recently, and we've been intrigued with what he has to say.
One of the main things gamers and the press have been talking about since 2013 is what they call the video game "console wars" between Microsoft and Sony. This is due to the coming of the new systems, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.
Every new generation of gamers get to argue about which new console is the best, but Phil Spencer is a man who doesn't care about the so-called console wars, and as such, won't make decisions based on that. Maybe that is one of the reasons why Spencer has chosen to no longer support third-party exclusive games on the Xbox One.
"I've said before, the one thing that I probably find a little distasteful in the discourse around games is the divisiveness that people try to build between platforms," Spencer remarked during an interview with GameSpot. "It becomes more about what piece of plastic I own than what games I'm playing. It becomes more about somebody else failing than the things I love succeeding. I don't think that's a good place for our industry."
We have to agree with Spencer on this one. In our minds, gamers can debate on which console is better, but when it begins to get violent with negative words and thinking, that is where the line is crossed and where the console wars need to end.
Several websites around the Web, we won't name which, have prospered from gamers on both sides of the fence going at each other in the comment sections. It makes for earning a lot of money to have gamers return to a page on a regular basis, but arguments should never be the basis of doing so.
At the end of the day, we can only hope this trend ends eventually, but we're not counting on it, at least, not right now anyway.
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