Xbox boss Phil Spencer is no stranger when it comes to handing out compliments to Microsoft's rivals in the console space, and he's continued that trend when it comes to NX and the new Zelda.
Quizzed on Twitter, Spencer stated that any new Nintendo console launch is a moment to savour, and that the new open-world The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild adventure is shaping up very nicely indeed:
While Microsoft and Sony are in competition with Nintendo, there's a definite feeling that key people within the two firms pay a lot of attention to what the Kyoto veteran does.
Both companies emulated Nintendo when motion sensing went big - Sony with PS Move and Microsoft with Kinect - and the Xbox avatar system was clearly inspired by Nintendo's Mii concept. It's clear that Nintendo is often seen as something of a trendsetter in the industry, hence Spencer's comment on any new hardware launch being of intense interest.
Will he be standing in line next year when NX arrives? We know that Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida probably will be.
[source twitter.com]
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Tfw the head of Xbox is more excited about the NX then some Nintendo fans are...
Breath of the Wild looked amazing, not good!
@TheRedCap30 Being the head of XBox does not exclude you from possibly being a Nintendo fan, so nothing strange about one fan being more excited than others.
@TheRedCap30 I would be excited but right now I am desperately waiting for the reveal, I hope motion controls will be back ( unlikely though)
woop woop! nxbox slim incoming!
You can't not be excited, or at the very least intrigued. Nintendo have, almost miraculously, kept this under wraps so far! Let's hope it blows our socks off.
Looked "good". Interesting. . . .
It would have been nice if he was so blown away that he'd maybe said something like "Zelda looked great!" or "Zelda looked amazing!".
But, maybe he was being genuinely nice and "good" was just the first word that popped into his head and there's no more to it than that. Maybe he was way more impressed than it comes across in the quote.
Interesting. . . .
I have always being more excited about any console launch but more so with Nintendo than others as you never know what offerings they would bring to their new system.
It's nice to see the heads of these companies behavimg much more civil than a lot of the fanbase.
@KishinLink I think Nintendo is utilising motion controls really well. I don't need (or even want) new Remote -controllers, but I do like gyroscope aiming in Splatoon and Star Fox Zero. I wouldn't mind if NX supported old Wii Remotes though.
Wow. I have to buy it cos he said it was good. I'm
He is not a fanboy like others, that's all.
everyone in the industry is excited when a new console launches. especialy when it's a nintendo console
@KoopaTheGamer that's exactly what I would like to see on NX! I wish the wii motion plus will be implimented again in the future.
as far as gameplay goes I think SS is the best zelda ever, seeing how people didn't like to use of the controller shoked me
Both Sony and MS are no longer threatened by Nintendo, that's why they said nice things about NX. They want Nintendo to stay in business as it's good for the industry. If Nintendo pulled another Wii on them, you bet they won't be as nice.
Off topic, but I'm just curious if NX will have games released for EUR and UK separately now that they are apart?
That's nice of Phil the big boys seem too get on fine and like each other's product aswell which is what gaming is about.
@Nintendian we ain't apart, it was a referendum not actual binding vote, in essence it was a county wide poll
Referendum: Noun: "a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them"
so even though just over half of the UK voted to leave (i voted to stay by the way) it doesn't mean the UK will actually leave just that as it stands right now they WANT to
sorry to get off topic like that guys
We now seem to have a new and complete Zelda game, that we have been waiting two years for, yet we still have to wait another nine months before it is released.
Although we all have Wii U's gathering dust because of a drought of of games and the Zelda game plays on Wii U's we have to wait for an NX.
That suggests that Nintendo is short of release games for the NX or that the NX graphics are no better than the Wii U.
@Nintendian I don't think so as both the UK and the EU are part of the PAL region, so I wouldn't think the vote would change this. (Basically, no.)
@FullbringIchigo wrong. Leave is leave. We are leaving.
@zool actually half ASKED to leave doesn't mean we will
it was a REFERENDUM that's ISN'T a like voting in a election where the result is guarantied it's basically a nationwide Poll on HOW the government should act on a particular issue
apparently now the UK has up to 2 years until they have to really chose to leave or stay and anything can happen in that time period, now the EU and the UK will negotiate the issue.
we haven't left YET, if this had been an actual vote not a referendum it would be different but as of right now nothing has actually changed and wont for years bar the small crash our stock market just had
anyway i think we should drop the subject because it is COMPLETELY off topic and we could get in trouble for it
besides we are still the same region when it comes to games, DVD's and blu-rays etc they can't change that so it shouldn't really make any difference, well the price of our games might increase as the pound changes in comparison to the other markets but that's to be expected
@zool not really? Who wouldn't want to have their system launch with a big title, I don't get how you came to the graphics conclusion. Though see how gaming companies that have dev kits and had pretty much abandoned the Wii U have stated their excitement for the NX, I don't see the NX having similar graphics
@FullbringIchigo yes drop it, I agree, but check it out because you are wrong. The people have voted out, the Prime minister is resigning and we are leaving. The two years is to adjust once we have given notice to the EU. Which is expected once we have a new Prime minister in October.
not to forget that sony and microsoft also copied wii u's dual screen gameplay.
@ANiMUS00 Should we expect similar graphics to the demo's that were played at E3 on the Wii U or better graphics from the new console?
@zool noted
on topic about what the NX version might be like, i can't imagine it being much different to the Wii U version myself, maybe slightly better looking, you know like how Twilight Princess was on Wii over GC
@manu0 wut
@A01 Indeed, I have a lot of respect for him, ever since one of the past E3s where he started the MS conference by wishing all competitors and the industry good luck (or something along those lines), and for listening to all the criticism the Xbox One had when it launched, and addressing most if not all of it, including backwards compatibility.
@zool better. Games are originally made on high powered PCs and then down scaled to consoles which are weaker. If the Wii U has frame lags and pop ins then one would only assume that the original design was superior to what was shown on the Wii U.
To say that the NX is similar strength to the Wii U is to say that they saw that Zelda had problems running on weaker hardware and then proceeded to put it on another console just as bad. Any sane person would use a higher spec console if they wanted the game to be a system seller.
By all means I expect for the NX to run Zelda well ergo the console must be much more powerful than the Wii U
I like how xbox ppl will give credit to their competition for doing a good job, they're pretty cool ppl like that
Personally, if I don't get some news on NX soon, I might dive in and get a xbox one s and say the hell with the nx for awhile and just get Zelda on my Wii U. Hurry up and show something already, Nintendo!!!!! -_-
@KishinLink I kinda hope there is backwards compatibility, but I'll be ok if there isn't.
@Nintendian
"Sony and MS are no longer threatened by Nintendo"
Nintendo just killed off Sony's handheld business for good, and are the very reason their PS3 tally only reached half of PS2.
I'd say they are both very much threatened.
But let's face it. One comment saying NX is exciting isn't going to make or break anything.
I love this guy. He's very humble, which is something few people could be in his position. Way to go, Phil!
@A01 Very true, had his response gone through Microsoft legal it could have come out "We are excited to compete with the NX, our games will rival there's for sure, adding to our core philosophy and synergy of products.."
It's good to have people like Phil Spencer at Xbox and Shuhei Yoshida at Playstation that are more than Executives, their gamers. And as a gamer it's hard to just turn a blind eye to great things coming out on competing systems.
Notice how the only company not sucking up to the competition is Nintendo. I like that. Gives me confidence they know their product is so good they don't need to hype up other companies.
@A01
No, a PR answer is exactly what this is. Just like when Shu Yoshida spoke about how excited he is for the game. These two think for whatever reason that sucking up to the competition somehow helps their brands. It's hilarious. And Spencer does this with everything. Said congrats recently to Naughty Dog on the reviews and launch of Uncharted 4. What does this achieve? Sony fans are going to suddenly buy Xbox? He needs to stop talking nice about Sony and Nintendo and get more games on Xbox. Yoshida needs to do the same for PlayStation.
It looked "good", as in, "It would look MUCH better on our hardware"!
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