Microsoft Gaming's CEO says not every video game needs to be a movie

Phil Spencer, the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, said adaptations should be creative outlets, not must-haves.

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• Phil Spencer, Microsoft Gaming's CEO, said not all IP needs to be adapted into new mediums.
• Adaptations should make sense as creative outlets, rather than something that "has to get done," he told Variety.
• Part of assessing what IP should be adapted is accepting the possibility of failure, he added.

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