Phil Spencer wants more digital storefronts on Xbox
Xbox head Phil Spencer wants to see more digital storefronts such as Epic and Itch.io on Microsoft’s consoles.
Speaking with Polygon, Spencer said he would like to break down the ‘walled gardens’ that limit players to buying games on a particular platform’s official digital store.
“[Consider] our history as the Windows company,” he explained. “Nobody would blink twice if I said ‘hey, when you’re using a PC, you get to decide the type of experience you have [by picking where to buy games]’. There’s real value in that.”
The old ways of console makers subsidising the cost of hardware with game sales is becoming less effective, Spencer said, noting that component prices aren’t dropping and the console market isn’t growing, with more and more players turning to PC and handheld devices.
