Phil Spencer says Microsoft’s PC-heavy lineup this year is ‘historical’ and an ‘anomaly’, so don’t get used to it

Xbox chief Phil Spencer has recently been doing the interview circuit, mixing up his usual advocacy for Microsoft’s slate with some more eyebrow-raising claims: Such as that, after the jobs bloodbath that followed the Activision-Blizzard acquisition, Microsoft is now hungrily looking at other acquisitions. After all, why stop at $69 billion?

One immediate consequence of that deal is the huge riches Microsoft instantly gained in the PC space, with obvious big-hitters like Blizzard and fan-favourite studios like Obsidian joining existing developer-publishers like Bethesda and id. It’s an abundance of riches that no other mega corporation can boast.