It's a very Microsoft type of approach and my feeling on all this is that Phil should really focus more on his own business it's a bit tiresome to read his constant visions on the industry. It's a nice utopia but it has a lot of legal ramifications like DRM and support of old architecture which requires effort and testing.
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I understand his dream after rereading, he wants software to be more free to exist irrespective of time. But if someone creates a product or pays for the license, they own it, and have a right to be compensated.
I support legal abandonware, if it’s not legal in some countries. I believe emulation is legal for any old software with expired trademarks and copyright. But, I think it would be a lot worse if the governments forced companies to give up ownership of their creations so that random people can just pick them up and sell them on other platforms despite having no investment in their ownership or creation. Companies have to legally enforce their own trademark ownership or lose the rights to them. Legal enforcement of copyright and trademark rights is already pitiful - and it’s heavily weighed against creators in many countries. If Phil Spencer thinks games on older consoles should be legal to emulate, he can make that happen with his own properties but he won’t. I support creators doing what they want with their creations. He likely draws the line conveniently at the Xbox launch or around it. He is free to do that with his own properties - this is clearly rhetoric against Sony and Nintendo. You can contact the author at or on Twitter.
He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. "I think in the end, if we said, 'Hey, anybody should be able to buy any game, or own any game and continue to play,' that seems like a great North Star for us as an industry."Ī life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007.
There is work to do, but Spencer hopes the industry can get to the point where anybody can buy any game or own any game and continue to play it. I love it in movies and TV, and there's positive reasons for gaming to want to follow." Spencer added, "I think we can learn from the history of how we got here through the creative. " My hope (and I think I have to present it that way as of now) is as an industry we'd work on legal emulation that allowed modern hardware to run any (within reason) older executable allowing someone to play any game," said Spencer. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer talking with Axios has called for the video game industry to support legal emulation to make it easier to play older games without the need to own older hardware.
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Microsoft's latest video game consoles, the Xbox Series X and Series S, are able to play every Xbox One, minus the Kinect titles, as well as hundreds of Xbox 360 and original Xbox games.
By William D'Angelo, posted on 17 November 2021 / 1,955 Views