Fantasy Phil

[Bobbi Champagne Jr]

Let's play Fantasy Phil! You're Phil Spencer and have access to a big wedge of cash, what do you spend it on?

I'd buy Sega Sammy and put out a special version of the Series S in Japan with Sega branding (Series Sega?). Start bringing back some of the classic Sega franchises with a real focus on quality, like SOR4. Sega games would be released on Switch (when feasible) and Xbox, and support cross platform play/ saves. That way the mass market can still play the games and there's an easy introduction into the benefits of Game Pass and higher fidelity gaming on the Xbox in Japan.

What would you do?

 

[gospvg]

Go buy Sony or Nintendo

[Qazimod]

Buy a few more months for my GamePass subscription.

[Super Craig]

Get Rallisport Challenge 2 released on the Microsoft Store and make it work on the Series X.

[carlospie]

Make a series x game

[RubberJohnny]

Stop making Halo games.

[spanx]

What's Peter Molyneux up to these days?

[bradigor]

PGR licence

[Clipper]

Buy From software for the fallout

 

then let them remain multi platform after the furore subsides 

[the_debaser]

Konami and tell them to start making games again. 

[bear]

Bring back Poker Smash and then give it to everyone using an Xbox or Windows PC as a Christmas present whenever they update the OS around December time. Like when Apple gave everyone that U2 album. Except there's no option to uninstall it or remove it from your library. It's there forever, for everyone. 

[K]

I'd pitch a Ready Player One game to Ernest Cline that actually licensed a huge chunk of the properties that appeared in the book and film, so that you could have a Gears of War level that involved the Ghostbusters and the kids from Stranger Things turning up through a dimensional portal and teaming up with them and Master Chief to fight the Collectors from Mass Effect, and then once Cline was in my office to hear my pitch I'd batter him round the head with a stapler until he promised to stop writing books, and fucking watch/read something a bit more challenging.

[layten]

1 hour ago, gospvg said:

Go buy Sony or Nintendo

 

From, Sega and Konami. The Resetera meltdown would feed me for years.  

 

Actually, can somebody really buy Konami and make some games again.  

[Wonderm]

Cosmic Smash 2022

[LaveDisco]

1. Short stock

2. do my best.

3. Ruin it.

4. Profit.

 

 

SEGA is a great shout. Rebranded special SEGA edition S, super smart. Love it.

 

Get a great exclusive AAA game released every 6 months, and a great small arcade experience released every 3 months. (Size of games can shrink massively, when game pass is at play - no more pointless padding). Hold last gen ports back 3 months so people think of the X/S as exclusive. 

 

Publically come out against microtransactions/loot boxes, and other anti-consumer and child exploitation. Strip it from games, and don’t use it to maximise game pass value. Introduce a MS of seal of quality and make it an age-restricted opt in on the system menu to allow them. 

 

 

So as I said, ruin it.

 

 

[Ry]

If I was him I would retire and live happily on what I earned, which much be millions. Fuck games. 

[MattyP]

Speaking of Phil interesting read on the verge about console launches, xCloud TV app etc....

 

https://www.theverge.com/21611412/microsoft-phil-spencer-interview-xbox-series-x-launch-decoder-podcast

[Triple A]

Clicked the thread title thinking it was about Phil Harrison - would be a reasonable nickname for him!

[Keyboard Koala]

Start a talk show where you give questionable medical, psychological or educational advice.

[JPL]

5 hours ago, RubberJohnny said:

Stop making Halo games.

I think they already have.

[Harsin]

Give up alcohol and mend broken bridges with Grant.

 

Sorry, didn’t like the question so chose a different Phil.

[lordscotland]

Make the worlds first ‘location location location’ game exclusively for Xbox 

[DeDeDe]

Stop a couple of guys from making trouble in my nephew’s neighborhood in Philadelphia.

[Doctor Shark]

Kung Fu Chaos 2. 

[MikeBeaver]

Bring back 1 vs 100 already!!

[Bobbi Champagne Jr]

Oh yeah, I’d also look to do a deal with Oculus or Valve to make one of the VR units compatible with the Xbox. You could have a curated version of the respective marketplace available as well. 

[Mars]

22 hours ago, Ry said:

If I was him I would retire and live happily on what I earned, which much be millions. Fuck games. 

 

You could afford to piss on a Series X every day!