Is Phil Spencer just Mattrick 2.0 really what has changed from Xbox One to X-Series especially as far as games?

yeah because the xbox 360 never made any money because of all the investments it had to make for xboxlive.

highest of a bad revenue is still a bad revenue

Don Mattrick left in Mid 2013 prior to X1 launch . You could argue he was responsible for the launch titles but Spencer took over early 2014 after being led in the interim by CEO Steve Ballmer.

Sure, Xbox had more launch titles but a lot of them were 3rd party deals. Mattrick famously considered first party titles and new ips to be a risk. He led the charge to divest in first parties and focus on becoming an entertainment box, not to mention the whole online requirement and suggesting people buy a 360 if they didn't like it.

He is directly responsible for the failure of Xbox One, from design to focus on anything other than games. He joined Xbox in 2007 when 360 was running on all cylinders and started to cut back on games and the last few years of 360 were as dry as a desert.

At least Phil has managed to change the narrative and invest in first party studios. He also got rid of Kinect and released consoles that actually looked like consoles.

I definitely agree that we haven't seen many first party games but they have 23 studios. I wonder what your argument will be when they start releasing games on PC and Xbox.

Last gen people here know I bought the call of duty xb1 (Xbox had the marketing deal with Advanced Warfare) They had a ton of big hitting games at launch Dead Rising 3, Forza 5, and Ryse. This gen they have absolutely nothing to start off the generation with Phil Spencer's X-Series while Sony is coming out really hard with tons of games like Demon Soul's, Miles, Returnal...

Xbox didn't do a big hitter marketing deal with CoD I also bought Halo MCC couple months later that first year when I bought it. Literally no reason to get one right now unlike last gen with the xb1 i had a ton of reasons tht first year.

What has changed from Xbox one to X_Series as far as strategy?

It seems like the box looks uglier than Xbox One S to me (personally) The price seems like the only thing its beating last generation on its the same price as a ps5 instead of 100 more and weaker.

This gen it might be slightly more powerful with a worse SSD than the PS5 which is better WAY better than last gen.

The controller is the same which isn't the worst but I still vastly prefer the dual shock 4 over the xbone controller for my PC gaming. Haven't even tried the dual sense and xbox guys are swearing that its another level on top of the dual shock 4 even like Ryan McCaffrey said its the only playstation controller he will use now thats a really bad sign for the x-series controller if it keeps improving an xbox stays stagnate on that front.

Is Phil really turning things around from the xb1 generation or just doing the same old same old as mattrick maybe even less?

Please don't mention gamepass I like to buy and own my digital games an keep em on my drive an play on my terms what I want when I want.