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Phil Spencer finally reveals his video game playtime
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SupremeHoodie
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15 hours a week is a lot, especially for someone not in school or college.
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Eddie-Griffin
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Eddie-Griffin
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What? His gaming hours at work would be within his work hours?
I mean both the Series and PS5 basically require you to be online most of the time, and some features out the box require it to.
Kinect included was a bad move. I understand they didn't think it was dead, but adding $100 to a console before it has a user base was a pretty dumb idea, They should have waited a year and then introduced Kinect as an optional accessory.
Like Sony did with move when PSVR came out 3 years after launch.
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Sosokrates
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He should kick his developers their asses so they release some great games.
Where are the exclusives from their bought studios?
Some are coming next year. Gamepass is stacked for this fall and beyond though. So Xbox gamers will have plenty of great stuff to play.
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Torrent of Pork
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15 hours a week of leisure time for an executive of that level is a little suspect. Being the executive of a huge gaming platform probably means he actually experiences games as a part of his work routine, if not then MS really does have an exceptional work-life balance for their execs.
This is not console warring in the slightest, CEOs for companies much smaller than MS's gaming division work 100+ hour weeks. Never think that your boss does less work than you do.
This is not console warring in the slightest, CEOs for companies much smaller than MS's gaming division work 100+ hour weeks. Never think that your boss does less work than you do.
Tell me this is a rhetorical question, please.
Eddie-Griffin
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His job requires him to interact with studios and therefore often games. I am saying that combined with his personal time, his hours spend playing games are likely higher than people think. I don't know where you are getting 120 hour work weeks from when games would also be within his work hours on occasion.
MasterDerico
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Executives/Senior leader roles in tech companies (particularly at scale and culture like MS) spend 90% of work-time in meetings. And that's generally inclusive of overtime, which is quite common for such roles as well.
Spending 25hr/week of that time on playing-games would be 60% of a 40hr work/week, or 30% of an 80hr/week - both % are substantially too high to be realistically justifiable in their role. So yea - 120hr/week.
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ChoosableOne
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That's explains his failure. You should work more Phil boy!
BusierDonkey
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I could probably knock my gaming time down to 15 hours a week if I only played a couple days a week. I think I put in 15 hours yesterday. Dude needs to prioritize.
lh032
I cry about Xbox and hate PlayStation.
I believed PS5 fix the DRM, while Xbox is not.
Skifi28
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Every year, the next year is the year of Xbox.
ChuckeRearmed
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Tell me how much people do today without Internnet connnection?
Tiago Rodrigues
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I mean plenty on countries have shitty internet speeds.
These consoles aren't just sold on 1st world countries
Robb
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That’s a lot. I think it’s great to see though, having gaming as a hobby outside of work probably gives some good perspective on things.
Makes you wonder how much Sony or Nintendo’s CEOs play. I’m sure Iwata played quite a lot of stuff, not sure about the “new” guy.
Makes you wonder how much Sony or Nintendo’s CEOs play. I’m sure Iwata played quite a lot of stuff, not sure about the “new” guy.
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Orta
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Jimbo still got him beat
As if that daft old cunt even knows how to navigate a tv remote control, nevermind play games.
Slicker than your average
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Indoctrination into the cult is real.
Walter Matthau
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Jimbo still got him beat
He‘s certainly beating something
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Ceadeus
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I'm sure he plays just like Conan O'BrienWay more than I expected.
Now how much does Jim Ryan play?
El Pistolero
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Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
It actually is. He plays Xbox, that is a fact. I see him online all the time and have even joined some of his games. He legitimately seems to enjoy playing them and it's clear he has put time in. He definitely spends a lot of time in Destiny.
Eddie-Griffin
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You are literally making up random numbers.
If Phil works 45 hour weeks, and during the job plays 5 hours of games each week, than that adds tot he 15 hours a week he plays on personal time, that means that he would in this example, be playing 20 hours of games a week, or 80 a month which is pretty sizable.
This 120hr week you bring up doesn't make any sense and I still have no idea where you are getting it from, the games he plays or interacts with from the job are part of his job, they don't ADD hours to his work hours.
Topher
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He plays on PlayStation as well. Not surprising at all to me. He's always seemed like a genuine gamer.
lughnasadh123
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Well there's a metric I couldn't give less of a shit about as if anyone with a criticism will suddenly change their minds because that person has __ amount of game time in.
Fess
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Mid 40s here, not too stressful job though but I can still relate. It’s not easy to find time to play, especially not in the living room with kids around. When do you let them see detailed AAA gaming violence? 11? 13? 15? I played games like Barbarian with head-chops at 9 but the graphics and violence is more detailed now. 17 seems overkill though, or maybe I’m just desentizised.
I am?
You just went from 40h/week (or more) in the op to 80h/month in the last post. It's fine if you want to move your own goal post, but don't pass the blame for it.
I explained where it's coming from. The whole point is that yes - 120hr work week is crazy even for a MS exec. But not any more crazy than 25work-hours/week playing games.
If people outside the industry really believe that's what our jobs are - no wonder 90% of people 'burn-out' of games in under 3-5 years - it must be quite a shock to see real-world industry from that.
Eddie-Griffin
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The post you quoted literally says "if you combine the two" as in if Phil works a 45 hour week, and he plays 15 hours outside of work, if he deals with games in some fashion ON the job, for 25 hours, than that would total 40 hours a week. You seem to have not notice the combined part and assumed i was adding hours to Phils work week, but you don't need to do that if it's part of the job.
Now that was a hypothetical anyway, 25 hours for games in a week during work hours would likely be a bit too much for one week, but that was hypothetical to illustrate my point we don't know how many hours he plays games on the job, you skipped over the most important part of the post, which is why you are getting numbers like 120 hours.
If Phil games for 15 hours a week at home, and 10 hours on the job of his 45 hour work week, why would that ADD hours to his work week? it just means he games in this scenario 25 hours in one week work and home combined.
MarkMe2525
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Finally!!!!
Roman Empire
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I'm still in my late 20s and can barely play two hours a day on average. Playing 15 hours a week is out of the realm of possibility for me most of the time, even when I have the time I just don't have the will.
Moses85
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They own so much great IPs from Rare and do nothing with it..
They shall source out the IPs like they did it with PD..
But wait, they already fucked up Killer Instinct and Battletoads...
CaptainSlayAHo
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You might not like how they handle rare ips, but people love sea of thieves.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I'd much rather them work on new ips than ki or bt
We'll know a lot more about how rare is being handled once everwild comes out
PaintTinJr
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Okay, so that shows what he's currently doing, but compared to say(the late great) Iwata's story - where he went against his family's wishes to pursue something they thought was a worthless endeavour - or Atsushi Inaba's story of PlatinumGames - that had him as a kid willing to spend time with a bully up the street to gain access to more game experiences - it feels a little thin for substance, don't you think?
If someone was asking any regular gaf member about their gaming habits wouldn't you expect a more colour picture from when they started gaming ,first of all, rather than a weekly metric?
My response would have probably started about a weird Polaroid photo - showing colours on a black and white tv - of my sister and me playing the brick wall on a borrowed 48K Spectrum a month before the xmas back in 83 when we got our own, or ...
I've got friends that have played 40hrs a week burning the candle at both ends at times in their life, with 5hrs after the pub with late night MP game sessions, or them doing the original GT challenges, etc, but they aren't gaf level gamers. They had more dedication to expensive clothing than gaming, maybe even put their haircut reading material above gaming in their lives.
I'm not saying he's definitely not a life time gamer, but if Iwata had said he only gamed 2hrs per month it wouldn't have made him any less gaf worthy, would it?
Maiden Voyage
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He plays more than I do and I don't have kids or hobbies.
CaptainSlayAHo
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LMAO what???
No, I'd literally expect weekly metrics, not their gaming life story.
Similarly, if someone asked how they got into gaming I'd expect a bit of a story and not gaming metrics.
"hey captain slay-a-ho, how often do you play video games?"
"well it started back in the early 90s...."
Deerock71
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That's 2 hours outside of work a day and change. That's a lot.
PaintTinJr
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My point is that most life time gamers would be defensive to that question, because they gamed for a lifetime and would want the answer to reflect that, not some gym time type metric for today.
Fools idol
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15 hours a week is like a dream to me. I'm lucky if I find like 3-4 a week these days.
CaptainSlayAHo
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I've been playing games adamantly for a quarter of a century. If someone asks me about my gaming habits I'd give them a daily/weekly rundown, not my life story.
I promise you, that that's the case for most people into gaming. He wasn't having a casual conversation with a friend at a bar, he was answering an interview question about his gaming habits