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Xbox’s Spencer: We have an “obligation” to Xbox 360 customers

Xbox head Phil Spencer has defended Microsoft’s current cross-generation release schedule, saying Microsoft has an “obligation” to Xbox 360 owners.

“We have millions and millions of people on 360,” said Spencer. “If you bought your Xbox 360 a year and a half ago, I think we have an obligation there. We’re going to sell millions more Xbox 360s before this generation is done and when people make a [costly] commitment to us, they’re going to come in and buy an Xbox 360, I want to make sure that there’s content for them.

“It’s an investment in the new generation of consoles, not every game is going to go to 360, but I want to make sure the 360 has a healthy line-up of software from us and from third parties. And I think that’s important. Not everyone bought an Xbox One at launch.”

Spencer also defended cross-generation games from third parties. “Most of the third parties will support both generations for a couple of years, right? For a third party this is the nice part of the curve for the last generation, because you’ve got millions of people out there and they want to sell content that these people will buy.

“They also want to kickstart the new generation successfully, so you’ll see a lot of them doing a little bit of both. For us in first party, our primary focus is Xbox One. You saw that on stage [at E3], we tried to show a breadth of content that you could buy in 2014,” he said.

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