How On Earth Is Phil Spencer Playing More Video Games Than Me?

The end of the year rapidly approaches, and the three big console brands have all released some sort of year-end data analysis so you can compare notes with your friends and brag about all the time you spent playing games this year. I was excited to post my Xbox Year in Review 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:until I realised my partner had 📖ruined my stats, and I don’t use my old PS4 or Nintendo Switch all that much, so I was excluded from this potential bonding exercise agai💙nst my will. You know who did post their Xbox Wrapped, though? Xbox Head Phil Spencer. You know the one.

And the stats were shocking. Somehow, the man who runs an entire division at the second-most valuable company in the world – second only to Apple, for what it’s worth – has spent 917 hours playing video games over the course of a year. That’s 38 full days. More than five whole weeks. About 10.5 percent of the year. That’s more than twice the ho🥂urs I have clocked on my Xbox account, and playing games to w♔rite about them is my job. Somehow, Phil Spencer has spent more time in Starfield alone (148 hours!) than I have in my top two games combined. I think. It’s hard to tell with my messed up statistics, but I’m estimating.

Anybody who spends that many hours in Starfield is a red fla𝓡g to me, sorry Phil👍.

Granted, I’ve probably spent hundreds of hours playing games on Steam as well, and I don’t know what the rest of Spencer’s gaming life looks like. Does Spencer play games on Steam, or is his gaming time limited to Xbox? Does he sneak in a few PlayStation exclusives here and there? Surely he plays his competitors’ games, that’s just good practice. I like to think that my seriousness about gaming rivals Spencer&r𝓰squo;s, but his r🔜idiculous statistics are giving me pause. He’s spent more than 120 hours in each of his top three games. I’ve never committed to anything like that in my life.

Even worse, he’s not even playing during work hours. Or, at least, if he is, he isn’t admitting to it. , he said he’s been “luckyℱ enough to be able to keep my work and my play mostly separate” and that playing is “my escape, my fun”. I spend a lot of my free, non-work time playing games that I inevitably end up writing about, but I also budget time to spend with my family and friends, to go to the gym, to run, to focus on my own creative work, and to read books and watch🦂 films. I’m constantly torn between all my priorities – I feel like I simply don’t have enough hours in a day or a week to do everything I want to do. I’m at war with time, and I’m always losing, but somehow Phil Spencer does it all.

I’m tempted to chalk it up to him just being built different and me being a regular person, but it also makes me think about how we don’t all have the same hours in a day. Spencer likely can outsource a lot of labour when it comes to his daily life that we normals can’t, like chores, cooking, and the like. Maybe he doesn’t have to do the cooking and cleaning. Maybe he doesn’t have other hobbies. Maybe he doesn’t ౠsleep much. Maybe he’s just really, really productive. Does he have the capability to do so much because he’s an executive, or is he an executive because he has the capability to do so much? Phil Spencer, drop a ‘day in my life’ video right now, because the people want to know.