Phil Spencer Admits He Passed Up Destiny and Guitar Hero Xbox Exclusivity

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This 2024 has not been the best year for Phil Spencer at the helm of Xbox. It is true that currently the president of the brand is Sarah Bond and that she forms a great team with Phil, but the discontent that is sowing in the passionate Xbox community is growing, regarding the loss of exclusivity of many titles and the little certainty that the next game will no longer be “Xbox only”. But the curious thing about today’s news is that there are famous games with which Spencer himself got off on the wrong foot.

The interview that the head of Microsoft Gaming gave at PAX 2024, which took place just after Gamescom, once again yielded interesting titles, but we didn’t expect it to be this one. Because according to Phil Spencer, One of the biggest mistakes was turning down Xbox exclusivity for a game like Bungie’s Destiny, which was ultimately handed over to Activision to make it happen.. But we must also add a giant who was a social phenomenon in his time like Guitar Hero.

Despite everything, he is not one of those who regret

As a good manager, he also knows how to manage bad decisions and it is well explained that Spencer admits that he is not “one of those who regret his decisions”. However, he does not want to stop saying that they were bad, but very bad decisions. In fact, Regarding Guitar Hero, when they went there, they commented: “You’re going to put a plastic guitar plugged into the console? And you expect it to work?. Of course it worked, but in a way no one could have imagined.

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