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Interview: Head of Xbox Phil Spencer, Talking Xbox Series X

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Video Games, News, Tech News, Leisure

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer makes his long-awaited return to Unlocked for an exclusive one-hour interview. We talk about Xbox Series X price, whether coronavirus could delay the console, the first-party launch lineup, why there's no optical out port on Series X, xCloud, cross-play, the fates of Sunset Overdrive, Ryse and Scalebound, which Microsoft IP Phil would like to see brought back, and more!

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0:00.0

Welcome to podcast unlock episode 437 for gosh we're into or into April already it's April

0:16.6

first here we go Q2 2020 Ryan McCaffrey with you in another window Destin LaGaria familiar

0:23.1

face and then our newest cast member joining us from Seattle or the greater Seattle area

0:29.3

cast member for a week Phil Spencer thank you so much for joining us

0:32.5

Hey thanks for having me it's great to be here in my office podcast unlock it's been too long

0:38.7

I was trying to think when's the last time we did this together three years ago the great pen incident

0:45.0

when you had a pen so we figured we were just banned for a while from from the Phil Spencer talk show

0:52.8

circuit but we're happy to have you back now the way I remember that is he threw the pin at me that's

0:57.8

the way I'm remembering this for you like some answer didn't meet his level of quality was expecting

1:04.8

and he hucked the pin right at me so yeah no no had nothing to do with that he's been too long it

1:09.5

shouldn't go three years that's really I agree so yeah appreciate making the time I know we tried

1:13.2

to do this face to face during GDC that obviously all didn't work out but you guys obviously made

1:19.2

the right call the show ended up being postponed and and everything so I want to start there with you

1:25.6

actually as as you're working from home your team's working from home we're all doing that

1:30.7

what is your typical day like now trying to to juggle all of this trying to juggle a console plan

1:38.7

and a console launch from from home on top of it all yeah I mean I first just want to say

1:45.1

everybody out there I think we're all living through unprecedented times you know the safety

1:51.6

and security of all of you the community our teams our customers primarily important and you know

1:59.7

this is not something in all my time Xbox that I've ever had to deal with the prolonged stretches

2:05.6

that people working from home is obviously new for all of us so there's you know there's just a

2:11.0

level I think where there's a level of uncertainty in terms of what's going to happen I get a lot

2:16.3

of questions about you know what's happening with this day what schedule is that on and you know

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