So, err, last week certainly stirred up some interesting stories in Xbox land - with fans nuking Phil Spencer's camp in Fallout 76 definitely being one of the weirder things we covered before logging off for the weekend. While we took a little screen break for a few days though, the Xbox boss has seemingly been planning his revenge.
As spotted by Rebs Gaming over on Twitter, Phil has been spending some time in Fallout 76 recently - earning himself the 'Officer on Deck' achievement while doing so. Oh, and as it turns out, this quest must be completed for players to be able to launch nuclear weapons in Bethesda's online RPG.
Now, we can't say this definitively just yet — Phil may have been simply enjoying some FO76, earning cheevos along the way — but such a move certainly looks like the head of Xbox could be plotting his digital revenge. We'll definitely be keeping an eye on Phil's Xbox activity to see what comes next - this almost has its own storyline to it!
As we mentioned up at the top, a few Fallout 76 players recently began nuking 'P3's Camp' in response to last week's sad news of four Xbox studio shutdowns - even if some have suggested that the closures probably weren't Phil's doing. Anyway, for context, we'll drop the links to last week's wild Xbox developments down below.
What do you think to this? Will Phil get his in-game revenge? Go ahead and discuss down in the comments section.
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This is the moment his villain arc starts😭😭😭
The man would be a legend if he does it.
Hilarious. I love it.
War never changes.
Haha yes good man don't take that crap lying down very funny I'm enjoying this
He already nuked two studios.
Phil Spencer has been Skynet all along 😮
He redeems himself by nuking his own camp.
You guys are hilarious…
Kind of interesting that Phil hasn't been seen or heard from since the entire fate of Xbox started hanging in the balance and even former executives feel obliged to comment and give pep talks while Phil is completely awol, while he seems to have plenty of time for MMOs...........
Yeah.....something unpleasant went down between him and corporate, you can bet on that.
Well quite right too! Mutually Assured Destruction is a meaningless concept if you don’t retaliate.
@NEStalgia Definitely agree with you. Loved been fly on the wall for lot those conversations.
So he'd rather spend his time getting revenge in Fallout 76 and hiding away than fix the damage Xbox is in? Gotta love those priorities.
@Decimateh I think his villain arc has been going on for a while now.
When does his redemption arc start?
I'm not surprised Phil got nuked after being responsible for
nuking X Boxs reputation before taking down a studio that just made a highly rated award winning game Phil himself signed off on and famously described as having succeeded by every conceivable metric !!!! That sort of things doesn't exactly make people warm to you 🤣.
As I'm sure Phil himself would agree being in management doesn't make you immune from the consequences of your actions in fact it's totally the opposite and when you make as many terrible decisions as he has people are gonna be unhappy. A little nuke in a game is nothing compared to losing your job. Especially as he hardly plays the game and has put the absolute minimum possible effort into building his ✌️base✌️ which is consists of little more than one bed and a lamp 🛋️ . He also has an endless supply of the Bethesda micro transactions the game is riddled with so resources are not a problem and rebuilding his ✌️base✌️will take as little effort as he put into popping a bed on the floor in the first place.
Let's be serious here this isn't exactly a real tragedy like losing your livelihood and he will rebuild his little bed and lamp far quicker than the devs of the game that gave X Box nothing but very positive media attention when it needed it most will rebuild their shattered lives so please excuse me if I don't shed too many tears over Phil Spencers bed 😭
Surprised Phil hasn't popped up to congratulate Sony on the success of Stallar Blade.
@NEStalgia He is corporate 🤣
@GADG3Tx87 He can only do what his bosses let him do.
@NEStalgia is it to much to ask for Phil to nuke rockstar for not updating RDR2 to 60 fps on Series X? If so nuke the Sony PS controller designer. Jimbo push the red button!!
Don't understand the hate Phil Spencer gets... It's like people don't know about the state Xbox was in after the one reveal, people just like to pretend game pass, backwards compatibility or impressive acquisitions like BGS and ABK didn't happen. His counterpart and Mattrick don't get as much hate despite one putting Xbox in a horrible position and the other pushing live service 🙄
Highly doubt he had any say in studio closures either, the guy plays games he's not some out of touch old bigwig only interested in profit.
@HonestHick lol. Rockstar is hopeless. They can keep their stupid cowboy sim. I still haven't played it despite day 1 buying until they fix HDR and allow control mapping. Ave 60fps
Though I realized that the track pad of ps controllers may be essential if playing on PC. Wouldn't that be ironic. Switch to PC, be forever stuck with Sony controllers due to mouse 😭
@NEStalgia I think there is little Phil can say without further damaging the brand. Sarah Bond was awful with her evasionist answers on Bloomberg but in reality she was sent out there to die, what could she really say? Sometimes the best option is to put your head down and be quiet. Hopefully let their games - Hellblade 2 and their showcase - do the talking.
I also think the days of them being as open as they were are gone now that Xbox is big enough to effect Microsoft's stock price anything they say will be very carefully monitored and controlled.
So where is he sending the nukes. Towards Tango or Arkane Austin?
@NEStalgia wow there is just no way I’d want to use a PS controller on PC. That trackpad is so lame to me. But if it has to stay can we for the love of god get concave sticks. Convex just slips right off my thumbs. That’s why i can’t use it well on shooters. Well one of the reasons.
@HonestHick Yeah but to play on PC you need keyboard and mouse, or at least mouse to navigate launchers and settings, unless you're doing 100% Steam exclusive with big picture mode, but then you've just built yourself a multithousand dollar closed console again. At least PS controllers have a mouse trackpad built in. It might be the one and only good use for them.
@themightyant IDK, I think at a point where customers question if the product is even going to continue to exist, you really have to get out there and say something. If it's not that there's a rift with management and he needs to stay silent to protect the brand, that's just a fancy way of saying "we're done, hardware's over, go buy a Playstation." Which I don't think actually is the case.
Yes, Sarah was sent out there to tie, looked uncomfortable, and it was awkward to witness. But that's kind of the point? They're not saying nothing, they can't say nothing because even the media is directly questioning their entire place in the market, and when their answer is "no comment" and "uh, about that...we...uh....believe in gen...no..that's not it...uhh....we want to be there for moments? Yeah, let's go with that." it's a lot worse than coming out with a statement that states what the policy is.
If the strategy is a good one get out and say it and reverse the negative image forming. If the strategy is that you're really done but trying to milk it dry on the way out.......you also really need to get out there and say that because killing milked sales now is better long term than making the entire brand poison by lying.
As a customer, buying Dawntrail next month, I'm asking myself, do I just buy it on Xbox, or do I scramble to build a PC and start 100% buying everything there because I have no idea if Xbox is a thing or not in the long term plan, even though I suspect it is, I don't know. That's not a good place for their strategy. Silence is very much the wrong answer.
Does you actually think Xbox (consoles) are going to stop existing any time soon? They only just told us about the Biggest technological leap In a generation™ for the next Xbox, and while I think that will be absolute rubbish by any sensible metric it confirms they have another gen coming. That's another 10ish years, nothing is certain beyond that, for any platform. Sony might be bankrupt in 10 years.
They've already sent Sarah Bond out there to die, to answer questions, do they have to all line up and frog march out to the firing squad until we like their answers? (Short answer we won't) That's not helpful.
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