Phil Spencer Forcefully Retires, Xbox CEO Resigns, Microsoft’s AI Director Takes Both Places

Microsoft last night, in a completely unexpected and spontaneous move, fired Phil Spencer, the director of Xbox, and replaced him with the director of its artificial intelligence products. Microsoft says Phil Spessner has retired, but it’s clearly forced upon him. On the other hand, Sarah Bond, who was the chief operating officer of Xbox, has resigned. Asha Sharma, without any background in the game industry, is going to shape the future of Xbox.

It is very clear that everything that happened last night was completely unplanned and imposed by Microsoft. Satya Nadella, who is clearly bent on destroying Xbox, wants to achieve this goal as soon as possible.

Phil Spencer is retiring as Esma, who will no longer hold a position at Microsoft as of tomorrow. Microsoft has set two days for the 12-year-old manager of Xbox to leave the company, and we can say that Spencer has basically been fired.

When the likes of Jim Ryan and Doug Bowser retired from PlayStation and Nintendo, they were given three or six months, until the end of the fiscal year, to hand over their management position to the next person. Phil Spessner has been kicked out of the company in one move.

Another move is the resignation of Xbox CEO Sarah Bond. Phil Spencer originally held the position of “Director of Microsoft Gaming” and Sarah Bond has been managing Xbox for the past few years.

The news of the new director of Xbox and the resignation of Sarah Bond was published while Sarah Bond was talking about her future plans for one of the Xbox divisions on LinkedIn two or three hours before this news was published.

While Satya Nadella, Phil Spencer and Asha Sharma and even Matt Booty have released a statement, Sarah Bond has not uttered a word, pleading in seconds. Most likely, according to Xbox’s plans, Sarah Bond was supposed to replace Phil Spencer, and she has been preparing for this position for the past year or two, and now Spencer has clearly been pushed out, as well as her.

Let’s take a look at Asha Sharma’s track record as the new Xbox CEO:

• Microsoft: AI team manager (two years)
• Instacart: responsible for planning the company’s entry into the stock market (three years)
• Meta: Manager of messenger programs (four years)

This person is now supposed to manage Xbox, as a company that more than anything has ten or twenty different game studios that all basically make content; A person who not only has no background in the fields of content production or art, which are the basis of video games, but his main job in the last two years is to sell the big lie of artificial intelligence in the form of various Microsoft products, which is exactly the path that moves against creation and art.

Matt Botti, who had done his job well in managing studios and producing games, is not going anywhere and sitting still.

Several statements published by Nadella, Sharma, and Spencer all have signs of being written by artificial intelligence, of course, nothing else is expected from Satya Nadella, who, according to his own words, does not drink water without talking to his artificial intelligence agents, and the other is the director of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence products.

After publishing official statements on Microsoft’s website, Spencer posted the only human and real message on his Twitter. A message with the theme that he didn’t know that this chapter of his life and work at Xbox is going to end. We don’t intend to defend Spencer, Phil Spencer was also an executive who received hundreds of times the salary and bonus of a regular employee at Microsoft, and now that he is retiring, he will probably sink one of his huge ships, while under his watch ten to fifteen thousand people have been laid off at Xbox in the last few years, but whatever, Phil Spencer was a full-fledged gamer; A gamer who personally played all the games created for Xbox and even hundreds of hours of playing time were found in his Xbox account.

After the introduction of Halo for the PlayStation, we thought we had seen the lowest point in Xbox history, but now we dare say that the fall of the Xbox has just begun.

Source: Microsoft blog