Decoder: Microsoft's Phil Spencer on launching the new Xbox

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Technology, Tech News, News

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Decoder Nilay Patel talks to Phil Spencer, the guy in charge of Xbox at Microsoft. They discuss not only the next-generation Xbox and PS5 just arriving in stores now, but how gaming itself has become part of mainstream culture, a trend that has definitely accelerated during the pandemic. We’ve also reached an inflection point for game streaming: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft all have services that allow consumers to play games on any device by streaming them over the internet, kind of like Netflix for games. Is that the future? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Neely.
0:01.4	Once again, we're running an episode of my new podcast,
0:04.1	DeCoder, in this feed to promote it a little bit,
0:06.2	but I think you're going to like this episode.
0:08.0	This week on the show, I interviewed Phil Spencer.
0:10.6	He's Microsoft's executive vice president of games,
0:13.4	which means he's in charge of the Xbox.
0:15.2	And we got into the next generation Xbox consoles
0:18.2	that just launched, we talked a little bit about competing
0:20.5	with the PS5.
0:21.4	We talked an awful lot about game streaming,
0:24.0	whether it's the future and how he's working
0:25.4	the platform companies.
0:26.4	Check it out, Phil Spencer on DeCoder.
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