Phil Spencer answered a lot of questions on Twitter today. Spencer was unusually quiet for the past few weeks so it’s great to see him continue the tradition by speaking with Xbox One owners and fans. The Head of Xbox discussed everything from his desire to rebuild Microsoft’s first-party games library to how he plans on getting more Japanese games on the console.
@Pharaoh_Danger Thanks. It’s a journey. Started w/ focus on hardware, longest timelines. We’ve rebuilt XBL and OS. Bringing same focus to 1P
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) March 22, 2017
Spencer has acknowledged in the past that the first-party library needs more work in order to complete against games like Horizon Zero Dawn and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Today he confirmed that he was bringing the same focus that they applied to rebuild the Xbox One interface and the multiplayer service to that task. Hopefully we’ll see more mature games like The Last of Us from the company in the future.
@NBFlying Yes, visit to Japan confirmed for me we’d be seeing these coming <and yes I know I’ve said this before>
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) March 22, 2017
The discussion then shifted to Japanese games. Many gamers asked Spencer what he plans on doing about the fact that Xbox One has very little support from Japanese developers. To this he pointed to his recent visit to the country and confirmed that Microsoft was working with publishers to bring their games over.
