A few days ago, on January 12, 2025, Phil Spencer celebrated his 57th birthday.During these 57 years, he has served at Microsoft for 37 years, holding multiple positions, and since 2014, he has been in charge of the Xbox division.

In interviews with Spencer, there are few talks about his possible resignation from Microsoft's gaming division, but in an interview, the question was raised.The reporter asked Spencer what expectations he had for the Xbox brand before leaving office.According to Phil, his main aspiration is to try to introduce innovation.

"I hope we don't be afraid of innovation. Some innovations will work great, some are not, but we have to keep moving forward and stay flexible. Think about the backward compatibility features we shouldn't have launched because it might affect new ones."The sales of the first-generation game, and our Xbox Game Pass. I remember the debate about whether free games should be allowed on consoles. I wanted to make sure we were still a willing team to take risks and look at what would work and what wouldn't work, and thenTake risks again and get positive results from it.

We are not perfect, but that's what my team and I are striving for.I certainly hope we can continue to innovate and not just look at what happened in the past.We must be oriented towards what developers and players want to see in the future."

It is worth noting that Phil Spencer was asked about retirement earlier in 2021.At that time, he said that he still had a lot of work to do on Xbox.