200M sales expectations to blame for rocky Xbox One launch, says Phil Spencer


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Phil Spencer, Microsoft's head of Xbox, has offered some fresh insight into what was going on behind the curtain during the Xbox One's infamously rocky launch. 

 

Speaking bluntly to Stevivor about Microsoft's decision to focus heavily on features like DRM and media streaming during the console's unveiling, Spencer has revealed the company was under pressure to figure out how it could sell 200 million systems. 

 

Those internal expectations resulted in Don Mattrick's team pitching the device as an all-in-one multimedia hub that "could be at the center" of the video on-demand movement. 

 

In hindsight, says Spencer, that was a mistake. And it's one he's been trying to rectify since he was moved up in 2014. 

 

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I really wish we had a crying with laughter emoticon :rofl:

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