Phil Spencer Suggests Perfect Dark Reboot Helps Xbox Lineup Become Less Male-Oriented

They keep wanting to break into the female market with games created for males. Most girls have no interest in video games. Period. I have tried and tried to get my wife into games and she just curls her nose at it. She'll play the Simms, or Among Us or some other party game but that is situational, she would have as much or more fun playing a board game. They need to stop this and let it go. Or better yet hire some damn women to create a game "THEY" want to play instead of forcing experienced devs to make something for a market that doesn't want it.

if the upcoming ones doesn't focus on joanna dark, then it's not a perfect dark game.

If it is appropriate & not something force fed to you down your throat, then it makes sense. But if you are going to swing your waaahooooman salami at us while telling us that it will be perfect when it fits a waaahoooooman, then no thanks! I would much rather watch Richard Simmons then!

I don't know what's more hilarious - the cringe-inducing title of this article, or the comment section actually eating it up in anger.

Female lead characters was never an issue unless they are forced into games just coz of sake of it!
Everybody was/is ok with Tomb Raider,Hellblade,HZD,Metroid etc...
That reminds me of...i bet ones was surprised to see that the bike rider in Segas Super Hang On,after finishing the hardest stage (America),puts down the helmet and reveals her identity :-)
While you are at it Phil,lets greenlight ReCore 2?

At the end of the day, this is the sequel i have been waiting for over a decade. This is also the sequel i wanted to see the most of any sequels of any franchises, so no matter what, i will be getting this on day one.

What i am worried about is that PD is yet another microsoft game that is shown at the very beginning of a generation, but is released near the very end, with a possiblity of a Crackdown 3 2.0 happening.

The original PD is still in my top 3 games ever. THE game that got me into fps. I don't give a flying crap if the character i am playing as (not to mention that we're playing a first person game and can't even see our character outside of cutscenes) is male or female. What i care about is its dialogue and just how well written the character is. So stop focusing on the fact that its a lady and create a cool ass character like Arthur Morgan from RDR2.

Im fine with Female Protags. We all are..

Howabout you(Phil) worry about the incompetent (female)

running/ruining Halo..

The Damage Bonnie did to the Halo brand was DEVASTATING,.

It's similar to what Disney did to StarWars..The 1st StarWars sequel movie was always going to break records regardless of the mediocrity of it.. Halo 4 was the same way and the record breaking sales showed as much..

Halo 5 was imo the biggest failure as it didnt capture a new generation of gamers. Again the weirdness happens and BonnieRoss gets award after award yet her company only has the Halo IP... The StarWars sequels shoudla made billions not millions and Halo was sitting on top when Bungie left it.

I have no hype for New Halo. i'd probably skip it if not for Gamepass.

Whatever whatevs...

**Perfect Dark was soo good.(original) and the follow up was pretty good even though it wasnt as epic as original..

I surprisingly own two copies of the 360 version in a cool CE looking case with a price tag of $1.29 lol Musta been my early days of buying games err collecting games..

Is one a collector who buys only games one plans to play? Unlike MetalJesus who buys any & everything?

Modern game companies: "Hey customers who give us money and keep us in business, could you go away and stop buying our products? Thanks."

Happy to oblige!

What the hell doesn't feature a female lead these days...? It's literally every show, movie and video game now........

Unpopular opinion but I'd love to see more of Joule Adams...

*itching to finally get a new Parasite Eve, get this instead. Look, regardless of the genre of the protagonists, game has to be good, and last game was a clear example of devs failing to modernize a cult game for modern audiences. Busted level design, busted multiplayer (at least competitive wise), the beloved laptop being a bore to use now, etc.

Damn as I realize, Xbox doesn't have a female IP lead. But, will a new perfect dark be any good?

Because Rare has been on a shit strike since Microsoft got them. Killer instinct isn't even in ads anymore, Sea of thieves is still garbage, we don't have a new Conker or Banjo, and I can't remember the name of that one game you stopped supporting where you made video game levels.

"I think it's awesome that for us we can focus on a female protagonist in our lineup, we don't have a lot of that in our our first-party," he said after 20 years and 4 console generations. And they couldn't even bother to try coming up with a new female protagonist, they had to dredge the depths to find one they already owned and can just reboot and bank on nostalgia.

Phil Spencer here to introduce to you "woman!" For years, xbox man, but now, xbox woman too! Now, you may be thinking "but Phil, don't men guns?" and I'm here to tell you "because of me, lady can guns now!" Thanks to our new pander pending technology, we let you guns while you also woman! What can't we do?! Go Phil!

make a good game

perfect dark zero 2 will be just embarassing and seem like pathetic virtue signaling. and i liked it because it had 4 player splitscreen with bots. the gameplay and story was trash but with some pals against bots it was alright at times when good games like halo boiled down to "you killed me, you killed me, this is unfair and boring lets stop"

also the n64 perfect dark is also trash now after combat evolved. precise aiming and acrobatic movement is a joke althoug i give it time period points. pdz is simply embarassing after halo, doom3, r6 and many others showed how to do it

Ah yes, because your female audience have consistently been shown to enjoy shooters, right?

Don't worry, Microsoft will be back to pushing men-with-guns in a few months. There's Halo to sell.

Oh boy... here we go.

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He never said less male-oriented. He said that he is happy to have more female protagonists. You can always change people's words to make them sound negative. He pointed out it as a positive point, not a negative point.

Like THIS post if the most important aspect of this news to you is "Look! A girl!!".

Like this post if the most important aspect of this news to you is "There's going to be another Perfect Dark!"

Perfect Dark was one of the top 5 games on the N64. It improved on Goldeneye's controls (who didn't love getting to hold down a button and select a weapon instead of having to cycle through them all???), had a far out story, fun weaponry and was a total blast to play. I love the ability to tailor PVP matches so easily. too.

I tried PDZ and couldn't stand more than an hour of it. What a disappointment. I'm with the video guy, I hope the newer one is more of a true sequel than that game. Unfortunately, I think the need for all FPS to have massive PVP online modes kill the allowance of creativity you can have with a single player/co-op game because people will exploit everyone and while that's awesome in a campaign, it's not great in PVP with a large group of mostly people you don't really know.

Oh, and for the record, screen looking is unavoidable in couch-lan split screen games, and knowing maps backward and forward and tracking movement through other's screens is a legit tactic!!! :)

Personally I think it's cool because Perfect Dark rocks, but yeah, apparently the not-sexist mindset to have is to reduce a franchise to a gender token.