Spencer: Sony Has a Huge Lead, Not Sure if the Xbox One Can Catch Up to PS4

9th October, 0 replies

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has told a panel at the GeekWire Summit 2015 that he isn't sure if the Xbox One can now catch up with the PlayStation 4.

"You know, I don't know. You know, the length of the generation... They [Sony] have a huge lead and they have a good product. I love the content, the games line-up that we have," said Spencer.

He went on to note that the Xbox team was well aware of the criticism facing the platform when it was announced and launched in 2013. The morale of the team was at an all-time low and his first priority when he took over was to restore the Xbox team's confidence.

Spencer had to be "very forthright with them about where we were and our ability to do things like beat Sony was critical. What I've seen in the 18 months that I've been in the role is the team is getting more work done in a day than I would expect."

"Every time I sit down and I do a product review, mostly every time, the team comes in with surprise and delight around the momentum that they have, more than I'm able to add. And when I see that transformation of a team that's questioning the leadership of the organisation to a team that's motivated by the customers that we have and their ability to delight them, I see a team that's making amazing progress."

"[Backwards compatibility] was one. We didn't know back compat would work. We started it. A few ninja engineers went off and figured it out, how do you go from PowerPC to X86 and translate game code that's about as time-critical as any piece of code that you would want in terms of its performance, and they got it done. So I would never question the ability of our organisation, but I'll say we're not motivated by beating Sony, we're motivated by gaining as many customers as we can."

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