Throughout Summer season Sport Fest, Microsoft opened the ultimate day with an Xbox Video games Showcase that threw the highlight on titles coming to Xbox Sequence X|S both this yr or subsequent. Following the presentation, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer briefly addressed the challenges of “working a very good enterprise” whereas remaining accountable to Microsoft’s expectations for the division.
“Our jobs inside the corporate is to run a very good enterprise,” stated Spencer throughout his look on the official Xbox podcast. “We’re accountable to Microsoft for working a very good business–a wholesome enterprise that continues to develop at each high line and backside line. That is type of a basis for us. And what that does is it permits us to proceed to spend money on Xbox for our group of gamers and creators and that we’re doing. It does imply we now have to make tradeoffs by way of the yr on issues that we will make investments extra in. [And] issues that we’re not going to speculate as a lot in, as a result of we’re the enterprise that we’re. However the enterprise is having actually good success.”
Spencer touted Sport Move as “having a tremendous yr” and praised Xbox’s first-party video games for his or her efficiency in 2025. It is value noting that Spencer has used comparable language about working “a sustainable enterprise” to elucidate the closures of studios like Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. The latter was efficiently revived by its new proprietor, Krafton, however different studios weren’t as fortunate and quite a few devs misplaced their jobs.
Moreover, Spencer has defined repeatedly that the choice to convey Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle and different former Xbox-exclusive titles to PlayStation was a enterprise name. That proved to be a fortuitous alternative for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and Forza Horizon 5, each of which topped PSN charts in April.
Throughout his podcast look, Spencer stated that watching Keeper come collectively for the Xbox Video games Showcase “reignited my Double Nice love.” That impressed him to revisit the studio’s earlier video games, The Cave and Iron Brigade, earlier than reiterating his pleasure for gamers to get their fingers on it later this yr.