It’s been a pretty wild last year for Xbox, as the massive console maker has seemingly began moving into being a third-party publisher. While that’s likely best for their business, it has brought up many debates and concerns within the Xbox community that the publisher is going the way of SEGA, meaning they’ll stop making consoles at some point in the future and focus entirely on being a software company.

Well, Xbox’s gaming CEO, Phil Spencer, has heard those concerns and reassured its fanbase that they plan on continuing to do what they are doing now, making sure Xbox gamer libraries will still be available for generations to come.

Phil Feels That Xbox Has Proven Itself Already, Though Their Future Is Focused On Reaching More Players

Speaking in a recent interview with XboxEra, when pressed about the growing concerns that Xbox was going the way of SEGA, where it became a third-party company (no more consoles), Phil responded by explaining that what it is doing now within the Xbox ecosystem is something it wants to continue doing and ensuring libraries will still be accessible, though with more options than there are now.

Spencer explained, “I just want to show respect to the people who voice their concerns to me. I get it; I would never disrespect anybody who comes with me concerned. I’ve got a library of games on the Xbox console. I want to make sure I’ll continue to be able to play those games. Are we gonna still do hardware? Are we gonna still get to play the games the way we’ve always played? Am I gonna have to rent all my games? Can I still buy games? I get it like I get the questions. I think we’ve shown respect for people’s libraries over the generations with back compat and play anywhere and I want to continue to do that. You can buy every game that’s in Game Pass like there’s no thing we’re not trying to funnel everybody into one business model. Play the games the way you want to play them. We obviously have to run a good business, so we’ll have our pricing and everything that we do, but I want to make as many options as possible for the games that we have so they find more and more players.”

Spencer added, “It’s why embracing Windows and the Cloud has allowed us to grow. One of our fastest growing regions for us right now is Asia, and it’s not because we’re selling more consoles in Asia but through cloud and PC we’re finding more users year-over-year than any other place the fastest kind of platform is cloud. That’s the one that’s growing the fastest year-over-year, and those are players like you were talking about your friend or the UK , we were never going to catch that person with our console and so let’s  find them in a way that works and it’s better for Indiana Jones it’s better for Xbox”

Just last month, Phil commented on the future of Xbox hardware, saying that they want it to win based on capabilities, with hardware still being a critical part of what they do.

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