Phil Spencer has been the Lord and Saviour of the Xbox brand since Don Mattrick sabotaged the Xbox One before it even released. In an interview with IGN, Xbox Co-Creator Ed Fries has said that Phil Spencer considered leaving Microsoft all the way back in 2004.
Talking in IGN Unfiltered, Fries said “When I decided to quit Microsoft, I had 1200 people working for me, one person walked into my office and said—“Should I quit too?—and that was Phil Spencer. And I said, “No Phil, you don’t have to quit, you should stay and make this better”. . . He’s done a great job of fixing things.”
Ed Fries also talks about his wishes for cross-platform play between Sony and Microsoft as well as a lot to do with the Xbox brand as a whole. Check the video out below.
Lewis is a games journalist, freelance gaming and consumer-tech journalist. They contributed 344 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: has since served as Editor-in-Chief at StealthOptional and Gaming Editor at MSPoweruser, with bylines at Gfinity Esports and FRVR.