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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 27:18 Mitch Lasky We had breakfast with Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft Games, yesterday, and we were talking about Steam, and Phil was like, I put my games on Steam.
- ▶ 29:23 Mitch Lasky I agree with you, and I think that, um, Game Pass from Microsoft is an interesting harbinger of maybe the end of the road for the platform based publisher, or at least the end of this road for the platform based publisher, because
- ▶ 29:44 Mitch Lasky He's now, Phil with Game Pass, aggregating supply again.
- ▶ 30:43 Mitch Lasky So with the new, uh, xCloud platform, and I was a pioneering investor in this with Gaikai back in the day, and it wasn't really economically viable, but now with scale and,
- ▶ 31:26 Ben Gilbert I remember I worked at Microsoft in 2012, and I was at our annual meeting in the old key arena, and I watched a demo of cloud gaming on a Windows phone with an Xbox controller.
- ▶ 32:46 Mitch Lasky Or if you were going to play that game, you had a PlayStation, or an Xbox, or you had a gaming PC that was capable of playing it.
- ▶ 40:02 Blake Robbins If you had an Xbox, you couldn't play with your friend who had a PlayStation or a Switch, and really Nintendo and Microsoft went to war against Sony.
- ▶ 1:46:30 Blake Robbins It was bad, like, we would play Sonic, and I'd be like Tails, you know, and it was like, I just remember hating that experience, and it was, it became really clear that my brother just loved single-player narrative type creative games, and…
- ▶ 1:46:55 Blake Robbins Uh, and then really, the three 60, when Xbox three 60 came out, and Xbox Live just really took off.
- ▶ 1:46:55 Blake Robbins Uh, and then really, the three 60, when Xbox three 60 came out, and Xbox Live just really took off.
- ▶ 1:47:02 David Rosenthal Xbox Live was such a, you talked about it a little bit in the console castles, Apple sit.
- ▶ 1:47:22 Blake Robbins It was the number of people that wanted to get online services for their game that had to pay Xbox in addition to their console that they're buying.
- ▶ 1:47:40 David Rosenthal It was just the right to get online with the Xbox.