Phil Spencer har meget forsigtigt kultiveret en persona baseret på kærlighed til spilentusiaster verden over, samt et ønske om at alle skal kunne spille de samme spil på tværs af platforme. Blandt andet har de udgivet Xbox Live på Nintendo Switch for bedre at kunne støtte op om platformen. Dog lader det alligevel til at han trækker en streg i sandet når det handler om at udgive Gears eller Halo på PlayStation.
I et interview med Kotaku fortæller Spencer, at fordi der ikke er Xbox Live, så vil der heller ikke være noget Gears eller Halo. Desuden udtrykker han at det er rart at have en "native platform".
"The games themselves are critically important to players and people playing. But ensuring that you have a connected ecosystem with the players, where people's save game and their state and their friends list and their entitlements move seamlessly from every ecosystem—from every device—that they want to play on is critical. There aren't other systems where we can go do that today."
"Today on the Switch, what we're able to do is we have Xbox Live on the Switch so we can keep those communities connected. And we have, as you pointed out, a certain number of franchises that have shipped over there. But in the end we think us having a native platform in the home for years is going to be critical for to continue to push our vision of where the gaming platform should be."
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