Phil Spencer has some thoughts about the metaverse.
. And it's not just the online hoi polloi who don't care for the current state of things. Speaking at today's WSJ Tech Live 2022 conference, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said the metaverse is"a poorly built videogame."
"If I think about videogames, for years we've been putting people together in 3D spaces to go and save the world from invading aliens, or conquer the castle," Spencer said."Building a metaverse that looks like a meeting room, I just find that's not where I want to spend most of my time.
"Videogames already work well," Narula said."Videogames are great closed systems of value. If you enjoy Call of Duty or World of Warcraft, they're going to keep on being fun for years to come. The metaverse is the idea, at least in my view, that you can start connecting these experiences together, and that's a lot less interesting to game companies than it is to, say, sports leagues or fashion brands.
That's not an unreasonable take: Games do work pretty well as standalone worlds already, and most of the early efforts at crafting some form of metaversal experience seem more broadly focused: