The New York Videogame Critics Circle has confirmed today that Head of Xbox Phil Spencer will receive the prestigious Andrew Yoon Legend Award at the New York Game Awards on January 17th, 2023.
Spencer will be in attendance to claim the award in a couple of months' time, and shared his thanks in a variety of Twitter messages today, stating that he was "honoured" to be the latest recipient:
The Andrew Yoon Legend Award is given to "people and organisations that have exhibited a significant, sustained body of work that shows exceptional artistic achievement and innovation", and past recipients have included the likes of Reggie Fils-Aimé, Tim Schafer, Jade Raymond, Todd Howard, Rockstar Games, Hideo Kojima and others.
Phil Spencer has been receiving a lot of support on social media over the past few hours, including from the likes of former Nintendo boss Reggie Fils-Aimé and former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden. Great to see!
Congrats, Phil! Feel free to leave your messages of support for the Head of Xbox down below.
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Good for him. I am not familiar with NY game awards.
Good for Phil.
He impressed me more when he took over in the Xbox one days, turned it a bit and released some very good AAA games and cut some deals like the Tomb Raider one.
So far the new series generation he done sweet nothing for me at all really apart from FH5.
New games count and very good AAA ones at that. Just go look at the just released console sales the other two are double the series consoles worldwide and series third in the USA again.
Let’s not mention Europe and Japan etc.
it’s starting to look like a joke.
@grumpypotato The industry is very self-congratulatory these days with these stupid award shows they seem to love flaunting.
Don't tell them over at Push Square. They will s**t a brick.
@Jey887
I don’t think push square have much to worry about on Xbox performance this year and sales results 451K for PS5 for the week just released.
Top in all territories apart from Japan to the Switch.
@grumpypotato he did kind of save xbox. They were not competing at all. It was Phil that pitched this vision of xbox game studios expanding from the 5 or 6 studios they used to have to a massive collection of studios and IP.
Not sure how much of the decision was his but xbox has had an emphasis on having both the most powerful console and the most affordable console available. They did it with the one x and one s last gen a couple years after he became head of xbox. Then they continued it with series s and x and it has brought a lot of new users to xbox. Instead of convincing Sony users to abandon Sony, he gave them a reasonably affordable way to have both.
Like all business executives, he is profit driven but a lot of his decisions do seem to be about offering xbox users the most options possible whether it be the backwards compatibility push, or the console hardware options, cloud options, pc options, etc.
@Dezzy70 I wasn't implying that they have anything to worry about. A lot of them just seem to despise Spencer.
@Jey887
I see, Phil’s ok I guess just not delivered much this new generation for me so far.
Preferred his Xbox one days so far.
I assume he’s getting this for pioneering Gamepass? He certainly can’t be winning for his contribution to releasing first party games.
What's he being awarded for spending Microsofts infinite cash piles 🙄😂
Ridiculous!
"exceptional artistic achievement and innovation"
Where? He's never done anything artistic or innovative, so this make a complete mockery of the award and shows that back slappers will big each other up even if they clearly don't deserve it.
You might think Phil is the greatest CEO of all time, but I cant imagine any argument that shows he meets the criteria for this award.
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