Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, has called the current metaverses into question in a recent interview, stating that they are nothing more than a “poorly constructed video game” and not where he wants to spend most of his time. He had plenty to say in a conversation with The Wall Street Journal (via The Verge), sharing his misgivings about increasingly popular virtual meetings and meetups.

A virtual interaction that comes too soon

And with the steady arrival of the metaverse as we know it today, many companies are taking steps in that direction, like Meta. However, Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, questions the current viability of this type of technology, assuring that “they are a poorly constructed video game”, taking the issue to its own terrain, marking the differences between the possibilities of the video game…