Xbox boss Phil Spencer says games journalism has too much “what do they call it? Search engine optimization or something like that?” | Gaming

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Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer would like to know if video games journalism is OK. He is concerned that the “whole space is gonna go away or be corrupted by things”. He mourns the heyday of magazines, and is bemused by this “SEO” malarkey he keeps hearing about. Much like a Dickensian child holding out a bowl for more gruel, he wants to know if there’s still a “path” for “people with a real honest voice”.

All that’s from an interview with XboxEra, in which they whimsically “flip the script” by having Big Spencer ask the interviewer a question. I’m quite glad I am not one of XboxEra’s interviewers, because if Phil Spencer had asked me this question I would have exhaled so dramatically I would have jet-propelled myself backwards through the wall and into…more

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