"Xbox has gone to hell": Mafia creator Daniel Vavra harshly criticized Microsoft

Mafia creator Daniel Vávra went after Xbox in a Level interview, calling the year’s performance a disaster — console sales down about 30% and revenue sliding for three straight quarters. He singled out Phil Spencer’s approach (leaking exclusives to the PS5, in V.’s view) and labelled the Activision Blizzard buyout a flop, claiming that putting CoD on Game Pass shaved roughly $300M off profit. The Series S didn’t escape his ire either; he bluntly called it “junk.”

Still, he’s not ready to give up on the brand: Vávra finds Ash Sharma’s plans for a hybrid PC/console direction encouraging, even if he thinks the real enemy now is internal — MS bureaucracy, which he sees as the bigger obstacle than competitors.