Phil Spencer admits Microsoft shipped games 'too early'

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Phil Spencer has admitted Microsoft has shipped games 'too early'. Speaking to The Verge, the CEO of Microsoft Gaming w…

, the CEO of Microsoft Gaming was asked about the decision to delay Starfield and Redfall, two of the company's biggest upcoming exclusives.

"In hindsight, when you look at a game like Starfield, it's taken so long and so much investment in new IP from the team. The decision to give the team the time to build the game that they feel they should be building is just the right thing to do," he said. "For any game, but definitely for our games Starfield and Redfall - which are our first big Xbox games with ZeniMax coming into the team - I just wanted to make sure those teams felt they had all the support they could get from Xbox, and to maybe feel some of the benefit of being part of a larger organisation that has other revenue streams and other helpful things going on," Spencer continued.

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