Phil Spencer Shares His Xbox 'Year In Review', And He's Been Very Busy In 2024

So who is really better at Diablo… Phil or Elon?

Why is the quality of the picture so bad? 😭

Phil is just annoying for me lately talks nothing but bollox!

661 hours for the year?! Wow, Phil really loves his gaming!

I don't even know if I have had close to 661 hours of gaming this year across Xbox, PC, Switch, and PlayStation.

I just checked my Year in Review, and I can definitely tell that my Xbox gaming habits shrunk significantly in 2024.

It was a pretty PS5-heavy year for me, and I got rid of my Series X a couple months ago when I got a PC.

When a game that dropped on Game Pass only a few days ago shows up in the Top 5 (Nine Sols), you know it's been a light year on Xbox!

I had 152 hours for Xbox (71 hours on console and 81 hours on PC).

I am in Top 20% for time played
Top 3% for Gamescore
Top 2% for Achievements Earned

Top 10 games for me:
Vampire Survivors
Resident Evil 4
Lords of the Fallen
Alone in the Dark
Nine Sols
Hellblade II
Final Fantasy XIV (sheesh, really?)
Still Wakes the Deep
Alan Wake II
Doom 3

2025 probably won't be anything to note because I only use the Xbox App for Game Pass games, and I use Steam, GOG, and Epic for everything else.

Is this why Xbox has had another terrible year? Shambolic MSFS launch, not a word from him. He needs to go do some work.

I keep trying to get my stats but everytime it just gives me the previous days playtime as my years games played and playtime. It was originally 3 games for 3.5 hours when I tried on Wednesday. Now pulling it today, my yearly playtime has managed to go down to 1 game and 33 minutes.

I haven't heard of anyone else having this issue but this happened last year too. Not sure why I get a broken experience. Maybe playing xbox on a large variety of devices is confusing it? Not sure.

@Lup our site has blown it up from the Threads picture, but at least you can see it. It was very small over there on Threads.

@Kezelpaso So this came from threads? Just curious (I don't use either), but have Xbox execs abandoned Twitter now? Please say yes 🙄

@WildConcept6 Yep, from Threads. Phil still uses Twitter a little bit I think, but he posts more regularly on Threads these days.

@Kezelpaso

Wasn't saying it was you guys' fault. 🙏🏻

Just found it funny after zooming in.

@TuscanUK Come on. Enough already. Go to another site. Stop complaining.

We might not agree with everything Phil does/says (although the puppet masters are probably really the ones in control...), but as an exec who actually uses his products, I got to give him credit for that!

@cburg , I'll do what I like.

I'm in the top 2%/1%/1%. I might just have to fire up solitaire on the PC & just leave it running in the background to crack 😁 the top 1%/1%/1%

@TuscanUK Boo hoo.

I got over 800 hours in Diablo 4 since it launched. Diablo will always be a top 3 franchise for me. Glad he is enjoying it that much as well. I am closing in on 60 hours of COD multiplayer already. It’s freaking great. Those two games alone carry 90% of my play time. I will log insane hours in GTA 6 and Gears E-Day!

I had 240 hrs. My kids played a ton of Minecraft on the Series X over the summer, so that was my most-played game.

Notice how even Phil doesn't do any cloud gaming

@GoldenPants cool, i think i have 3%,1%,1% , how many playing hours do you have ? I m over 1000

I think Phil doesn't understand what a good game is because he only plays games on Xbox.

Maybe he should spend more time running Xbox and less time playing games

Fair, but I played more retro games than I did any of my 2020-2024 games on my PS4/Xbox One...... what a year it was ignoring most, like sure I have Gori Cuddly Carnage and Indie from this year I played the demo, I haven't started it yet though the full game, sure I'll get Steam World Heist 2 eventually..... but otherwise yeah this year was forgettable or unappealing besides retro game pickups. XD

Got a few PS4 games digitally, got to look out for the next Switch discounts as I missed my chance with the ones I've had my eye on, discounts ended last week so either I'll wait or pay full price depending. One has licenses I have to consider, the others not.

When you'd rather play Chicken Little on PS2 the first game not 2nd game in 2024 you know your either desperate or still having fun regardless and not fussed if playing tie in games still no matter the year as still getting something out of them.

Xbox can make deals, they can keep working away at things for sure but to me. I just don't find their we try to connect with the Japanese but they really don't care, or did for a few Gamepass moments and that's it.

Kids games well that is still third parties regardless anyway.

1st parties didn't do it for me or we are waiting of course.

Indy is probably really good I think it has a few odd details but it's still good of a game for sure.

But I'm barely using my Xbox.

I put in Extinction and wasn't into it with how bad the goblin boss regenerated their limps and I just got sick and tired of it's timing going no where for me to defeat them 3 levels in.

I put in Mothergunship and was fair, I just suck at it. Got a few others for Xbox One (probably 2020 and older I think) and still many 360 BC or a small handful of OG Xbox to play on my Xbox One yet I still barely want to use it besides Blu-rays or YT.......

Beat 22 or so retro games this year (besides Splatoon 2) all PS2, Wii, PS3, 360, of shooters, racing, platformers of that gen, some licensed film tie ins like Chicken Little or Up movie games

Other AA/B grade some being platformers, Wii versions of games like NFS Hot Pursuit which is great, never under-estimate PS2/PSP/Wii versions of games being a blast they can be as unique or fair gameplay besides the presentation I couldn't care less about. Parity means nothing.

Others just forgotten shooters (Blackside Area 51, Soldier of Fortune Payback, Bodycount with my working PS3 copy as my 360 copy wasn't doing too great, Battlefield 3 on Xbox One 360 BC as the disks were stuffed and Splintercell Conviction on BC as well I binged in their own days of a week, among others) of the PS3/360/Wii era, even got Kane & Lynch 2 started.