It's been a very busy year for Team Xbox and particularly Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who not only has had to navigate two consoles launches in the middle of a pandemic, but has also had to make countless interview appearances in that time.
However, in recent weeks and months we've started to see more members of Team Xbox conducting interviews such as Jason Ronald, director of project management at Xbox, and Sarah Bond, corporate vice president of gaming at Microsoft, and Spencer says he "really likes" seeing these team members getting known by the community.
Spencer's reply was in relation to Sarah Bond's recent appearance on the Kinda Funny xCast, where she talked about the success and future of Xbox Game Pass, which later received praise from the Xbox boss.
Of course, this doesn't mean we're going to stop hearing from Phil Spencer anytime soon (nor would we want to!), but it's great to see the head of Xbox giving extra recognition to others involved on the team.
What do you make of Phil's comments here? Give us your thoughts in the comments below.
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In Phil we trust
"I really like the people on the team who do the real work getting known by the community."
This guy always knows what to say. He's not only a brand leader and a marketing man but especially a kind and sympathetic dude!
Always like seeing Phil but Sarah Bond is also brilliant, always about as open as an exec can be and like Phil not afraid to have to 100% stick on brand, gives credit where it is due across the gaming landscape.
Jason “the beard” Ronald is great too, though very dry, best for the tech stuff.
Only one I can’t stand is Aaron Greenberg, comes across as typical marketing snake oil salesman who would twist or say almost anything to get a point scored and seems to hype the fanboy drama BS.
But perhaps that’s just his role or just me.
@Kefka2589 yeah Greenburg is the odd one out buy he could just not be the greatest public speaker. They did win a marketing award and in reality their stuff was great until they came to the actual shows...they need someone new to be in charge of the live shows. They are getting better but they did horrible this year and from what I've heard it's the norm.
@Kefka2589 Agreed on all fronts. Satya Nadella is engaging every time.
And to be clear, I don't think Aaron Greenburg is a bad guy, he does plenty of charity and other good work, there's just something that rubs me the wrong way. As @Krzzystuff said maybe he's not the best public speaker.
@Krzzystuff Xbox 100% deserved the marketing award, rolled with the punches successfully. Whoever runs their Twitter deserves a medal (and a raise) constantly hilarious and a great example of loving all gaming. See this whole thread from yesterday with many witty responses and a clear passion and knowledge of the whole industry.
https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1338921772083646467
@themightyant their twitter was fantastic! The series S leak reply could have won the award on its own. The UK twitter was mocking Sony a lot as well. Definitely need raises fir those 2. The Canadian Twitter is just someone posting the main twitter posts like 30% of the time and a few days later in some cases...that fool needs to be fired if there's actually a dedicated person.
@Kefka2589 At first I was thinking "who the hell is H. Jon Benjamin?" then I googled him "ah the voice of Archer!" - I don't think I can unhear that now whenever I read that Twitter feed
@Bmartin001
You beat me to it! 👍🏻
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