Microsoft’s Phil Spencer Discusses Revisiting Beloved Franchises

At present, throughout an episode of the Official Xbox Podcast, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer talked about the opportunity of revisiting a number of the older franchises by Activision Blizzard and different Xbox studios. 

Spencer talked about throughout the podcast, that counting Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, and Xbox’s personal studios, the variety of franchises that now Microsoft has in its portfolio is “type of inspiring” but in addition daunting.

He feels that the corporate must be “an amazing custodian” for that content material, because it represents reminiscences for folks and he desires to guarantee that when Microsoft revisits one thing, they do it with their full potential — a motivated crew that wishes to work on one thing and make a distinction. 

He does not need it to be one thing created completely for monetary achieve or for a PR announcement that then does not get delivered. 

I’ll begin with the groups, and what are they keen about. That is why I am excited to go on these visits. After which we’ll take a look at it.I believe we have accomplished an OK job at Xbox. I do not suppose we have accomplished an A+ job on taking a look at our franchises and revising them. 

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I do suppose with Sport Go we’ve got the power to choose a few franchises yearly and amost do like A revisited– I simply made up that time period, so it is not a model. 

Spencer believes that taking a look at all of the franchises Microsoft now controls, there is a chance to return, even when it is simply “to acknowledge the second and what these issues meant in gaming’s historical past and do one thing proper with it. Make it accessible to folks by means of Sport Go.”

I believe there’s a chance. There’s not a plan for that, however there’s a chance. If groups wish to return and revisit a number of the issues that we’ve got and do type of a full deal with it, I’ll be all in on that, as a result of I believe there’s simply a tremendous trove of issues that we will go and contact once more. 

Spencer introduced up the current Quake 2 remaster for instance. He believes that was superior as id Software program did a extremely good job revisiting the sport and making it present with out leaving the historical past behind, and he’d like to see extra issues like that.

Requested whether or not there are franchises that he’d personally prefer to revisit, he talked about a number of the previous Infocom or Sierra video games like Zork or King’s Quest, just because they have been moments in his gaming expertise that basically meant one thing. 

He additionally talked about that Blizzard has some superb franchises like Starcraft, however an important factor is that they are handled with the respect that they respect they usually’re not handled like a strategy to have a PR second.

Throughout the identical podcast, Spencer additionally promised parity (as a lot as attainable) to Name of Responsibility followers on PlayStation and Nintendo consoles.