Holiday 2020 sees the arrival of the next-gen of video game consoles. One of these is the world's "most powerful" system, the Xbox Series X. In the lead up to its launch, the head of Xbox Phil Spencer is doing everything he can to spread the word.
With this in mind, next week on 12th August he'll be appearing on Gary Whitta's Animal Crossing: New Horizons talk show, Animal Talking. Yep, the guy who runs team Xbox is actually going on a Nintendo-themed show. That's potentially a lot of exposure for Phil, considering how we just found out Animal Crossing's new entry has now sold over 22 million copies.
As for what will be discussed - we're guessing the conversation will be all about the Xbox Series X and perhaps we'll even hear more about Halo Infinite and Project xCloud. In saying this, it doesn't mean necessarily mean there'll be any announcements. A lot of the guests simply come on for a casual chat.
Apart from Phil, the singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb and actor Dylan Sprouse will be appearing on the same episode. In recent weeks, Gary has interviewed Selena Gomez, Laura Bailey and Justin Roiland. Will you be tuning in to listen to Phil? Leave a comment down below.
[source purexbox.com]
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Phil Spencer literally just appears as a villager just to say "gaming" in Animal Crossing gibberish, and then walks off.
I'm not a fan of the show but Animal Talking was a really creative idea.
Well that’s an odd group of people. You’ll probably find most of these gaming execs have multiple consoles though. It might be their job to promote their brand but they’re primarily minted middle aged dudes that love gaming, of course they’ll have a Switch alongside Xbox/PS.
@nessisonett Switch were popular among Microsoft employee's and is why they ported some Xbox Games to get them portable.
Only his head is appearing? Wild
Uh oh... Nintendo's really not gonna like this!
@Anti-Matter It's a shame it took until now to start seeing games that try to be like Animal Crossing.
I know this is a serious oxymoron, but Xbox has become like... aggressively nice.
It'd be a nice opportunity to announce Master Chief as the next playable character in Smash Bros. Ultimate. Just saying.
Cheap marketing. Xbox are going to have to do something more impressive than this if they want me to buy the Series X.
who needs vr chat when you have ac!
@Anti-Matter “Most Powerful” as in performance and visuals of the console itself, not what games are on the platform
lets make an update (1.4.2) and be sure will be removing all of them.
@Moon gamepass seems to be pretty impressive, especially for those on a budget
Not a fan of Phil so I’ll give it a miss...
Master Chief in Animal Crossing confirmed?!
Give us Banjo Kazooie for switch!!
Nice seeing Xbox giving Nintendo better support than Nintendo themselves
I'm not really into games as a service, microtransactions, subscription traps etc etc, and I get that's where Microsoft are wanting to go, but I do like Phil Spencer. He seems like a genuine dude.
Really hope Microsoft and Nintendo explore their close relationship further. There are some great MS / Rare games that would thrive on Switch and do wonders for Xbox exposure and anyone interested in next gen.
@GrailUK cough Rare Replay cough
@noswitchbutidc Be still my heart. Seriously though, I can't imagine how crazy it would do, especially as we are at peak nostalgia at the moment.
The little children whining in the comment section aside, I do appreciate seeing an exec from a competing company be willing to talk on a Nintendo show.
At the end of the day, what matters most is games, irrespective of platform. I'll definitely be getting a Series X to accompany my Switch, but would still like to see what he has to say. I assume there will be talks about Gamepass and asking if they'll see it on Nintendo's consoles.
Excited to see what they discuss. Nintendo and Microsoft building their relationship together is a huge win for the rest of us.
That title picture in the article makes him look like he‘s dead. Could have read: "Phil Spencer passes away."
Put Game Pass on Switch or remote play of your Xbox via your Switch.
If you ask me, Lisa Loeb is the highlight of the show. Would love to hear tal about 8bit gaming and whatnot. Sadly, that won’t happen.
Philly needs to stop muddling the Xbox marketing messaging. I was onboard but once he said I can stream from Project xcloud, I thought why bother buying am Xbox at all when I can stream from my laptop like I do for Stadia?
@Anti-Matter some adults don't want "kawaii" games.
I might get the xbox for Rare Replay alone.
@Snatcher They are very different games.Heck,almost opposites.
AC is all innocent,while VRchat is full of sexy anime girls.Just look at my icon.Its my personal VRChat avatar.
This makes me happy for most of my life i've kinda neglected playstation and xbox but just earilier when i turned 12 i was suddenly interested in the other platforms and to see the head of xbox play a nintendo game just makes me happy
@Not_Soos at least there not like EA
@GrailUK isn't Nintendo at much of not moreso pushing GaaS than MS? . Only Sony isn't, but they're busy selling the MTX as full price releases.
@NEStalgia If they are, it's unobtrusive to my gaming habit lol.
@GrailUK NL commenters when miyamoto said paper mario doesn't need story: "rabble rabble rabble rabble"
Commenters when miyamoto said he doesn't like GaaS: crickets
I'm amazed someone has made a Animal Crossing talk show...
I bet Sony and Microsoft are wishing now they had launched the X and PS5 in 2019 so they could cash in right now on the hot new gaming trend, because Switch is owning it all!
And he'll ask N one question.. Hey Nintendo, what's with all these updates?
Phil must be like, “why didn’t we come up with the Xbox Switch.... or at least Animal Crossing in glorious 4K on Xbox One X!
@duffmmann this!
Minecraft steve for smash
"That's potentially a lot of exposure for Phil, considering how we just found out Animal Crossing's new entry has now sold over 22 million copies."
.... What exactly is the logic behind this determination? Do you think that somehow sales data for the game impacts viewership? A quick look at the channel shows videos with as few as 600 views and the actual episodes of the show having 5-10k viewers.
I'm not bashing the show, it's just.. obvious that your statement regarding the sales numbers is complete nonsense.
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