You can grow without being hostile and negative. Start your own studios, make innovative games, compete with quality not acquisitions.
Yes, but can you roll a platform of the distribution, breadth, depth and persistence over good and bad cycles of the scale of Xbox or PlayStation while being a private company? A few have tried.
No, but do you have to? You can still be a profitable company without aiming for world domination.
No, there are plenty of independent private game developers (Stardew Valley, Baldur's gate etc come to mind) I was just taking Phil Spencer's perspective, which I imagine is a platform level one.
![Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: 'I don't get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business'](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ad52be4c-4529-48df-ae10-9135c073f0f7.jpeg?format=jpg&thumbnail=256)
You can grow without being hostile and negative. Start your own studios, make innovative games, compete with quality not acquisitions.
Yes, but can you roll a platform of the distribution, breadth, depth and persistence over good and bad cycles of the scale of Xbox or PlayStation while being a private company? A few have tried.
No, but do you have to? You can still be a profitable company without aiming for world domination.
No, there are plenty of independent private game developers (Stardew Valley, Baldur's gate etc come to mind) I was just taking Phil Spencer's perspective, which I imagine is a platform level one.
Not everybody is suited to management.
the best and the only answer. git gud. 💪