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Tom Warren

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
459 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But yeah, I mean, the mobile stuff is still, I don't know their mobile strategy really.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Obviously, with Nintendo, they have a strong collection of IP, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

They can leverage and they can be exclusive and they're always putting out great content that people buy the hardware for.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

They don't have a problem there.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Microsoft's gaming output over the last decade hasn't been the strongest, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Recently, it's got a lot better, but they don't have the respect of the industry for their content either.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

They just don't do the sort of storytelling that Sony does with PlayStation games.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

They don't do...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

that sort of content so they've had a content problem which is hence all the acquisitions right um but i think with the with the mobile stuff it's like what what essentially phil is saying here is that we need all this content to pull eyes away from tiktok right to put because no one is buying our console of a certain age right and they're worried that the

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

People my age, like 30s, 40s, they're the people that are keeping the consoles, but no one in their 20s right now is buying a console anymore.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

That's their worry, and then the next generation is not going to buy consoles.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

That's starting to impact Sony as well.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

It's not a unique thing to Microsoft.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

I don't know so much about Nintendo because they are very unique, definitely, with the Switch.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But I think that's their worry, and that's driven this whole thing for content.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

We need content, we need a way to get people on mobile, we need to meet people where they are, this whole thing of play across different devices on TV and all this sort of stuff, Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But the reality of it is that

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

where they're at now with, like, Xbox Cloud Gaming, it's their vehicle for cross-platform, no doubt, is that mobile is a small percentage of people who actually play on it, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

And originally it launched as mobile.