It might not feel like it, but it's been a whole eight years since Phil Spencer first took the reigns as Head of Xbox back on March 31st, 2014, and he's been celebrating that anniversary today in a message to fans on Twitter.
In a reply to someone on the social media platform, Spencer stated that "it's been an amazing journey" so far for him, calling his time in the role "the most rewarding years of my career and really excited for what's ahead."
As you may well know, Spencer took over as Head of Xbox from Don Mattrick who left after the botched Xbox One launch in 2013, and since then Spencer has transformed the Xbox brand with innovations like backwards compatibility, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Cloud Gaming, the Xbox Series X and S, and much, much more.
We're all hoping Spencer sticks around in the role for a long time to come, although he did admit late last year that he has "more years behind me than ahead of me", and Microsoft has encouraged him to think about succession plans. He seems to be more than happy staying put for now though, so let's hope he's got plenty of years left yet.
Congratulations Phil on eight years as Head of Xbox! Leave your comments down below.
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Huge credit to Phil for turning the ship from almost sinking after Don telling consumers stick with the 360 if you dont like it. Backwards Compatibility is brilliant and overseeing the rise of game pass and day one xbox exclusives on that. Phil plays games and has a great relationship with his customers. Xbox will probably match playstation for exclusives eventually which is great for gamers
He’s done well but doesn’t get my 10/10 nod until I see Xbox studios turn out some top end AAA games with some regular releases though out the year.
Xbox is for all year not just Christmas 😂
I hope now Phil has set the programme in motion which he has done very well, he gets a bit micro management on game development and looks at Studio infrastructure and game development project management etc.
Brilliant job so far, how far they’ve come, and he’s not done! Exciting times.
That Switch is still in the background. 🤔
We only care about what's on his shelf. Any sleuths out there who can connect the dots for us?
I agree a fine job saving Xbox from the scrap heap however we need more 1st party game exclusives. We had Forza 5, Halo infinite and Microsoft flight simulator but we need a new game probably every 2 months - or am I being greedy.
No, no, thank you Phil! & thanks to all the Xbox team & family!! 👍🚀🌈🎮🎧💗
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