The Microsoft press conference made good on its "Game On" title by focusing almost exclusively on games from start to finish. But all of them were on Xbox.

Phil Spencer told Polygon that this doesn't reflect shifting priorities for Microsoft, but rather attention to the venue.

"E3's a retail show," Spencer said. "It's a retail show, it's a console show, so it didn't really feel like the right place for us to talk about Windows, but Windows and gaming on Windows is critical to Microsoft's success."

Spencer isn't just in charge of Xbox - he's head of all the companies gaming efforts, which he feels are strong in different ways.

"When we're doing gaming strategy, gaming focus inside the company, that's my job," Spencer said. "I think in a lot of ways, you could argue gaming on Windows has never been more healthy in that the biggest of the big franchises, League of Legends, World of Tanks, those things dwarf a lot of what we're doing in this console space in terms of users and monetization. They're all on PC."

Spencer said in April that gaming could help revitalize Microsoft as a consumer brand, doing for it what the iPod did for Apple.

Posted: Jun 14, 2014 12:29 pm
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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/468410/spencer-explains-windows-gaming-absence-at-e3/