Xbox boss calls StarCraft "seminal" and says he's "excited about getting to sit down with the teams"

Xbox boss Phil Spencer says “what could happen” with older Activision Blizzard franchises like StarCraft is “pretty exciting”.

Asked what could be on the horizon should Microsoft’s acquisition go ahead, Spencer added that he was “excited about getting to sit down with the teams at Activision and Blizzard and King to talk about back catalogue and opportunities that we might have”.

“The first thing I would say is, I’m not allowed to make any decisions about what happens at Blizzard or Activision or King,” Spencer told Wired (via NME). “So this is all just kind of talking and thinking about what the opportunity is.

“Not only StarCraft, but WarCraft, when you think about the heritage of RTS games that we’re talking about here, specifically from Blizzard.”

Whilst he was very careful not to commit to anything or give too much away, Spencer said that whilst he didn’t “have any concrete plans today” and “can’t really get in and work with the teams” just yet, he acknowledged that “StarCraft was a seminal moment in gaming”: “from an esports perspective, from RTS on console perspective, and from just an RTS storytelling perspective in the genre”.