The Most Cursed Man in Gaming
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- There is a man who has worked his way around the game industry and causes billion dollar disasters for the companies he works for, this video will entail the disasters this man has caused for some of the biggest companies in the world.
Oh look Stadia's dead now who'd a thunk it
Part 2 is probably in the making
*the cycle repeats again…….*
@@therealdia next up Nintendo. Time to kill the switch 2 at launch
Btw stadia was a huge loss to Google. They reportedly spend tens of millions of dollars bringing games like red dead redemption 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 over to the platform
I've just discovered your channel and I'm hooked
The Diablo "you guys got phones?" moment will live in gaming infamy forever
A very tone-deaf statement
Bro, I don’t want to play every game on one device. PC and consoles still exist.
@@danialtarki572all the did was release a mobile game when everyone expected a main line game. They committed the grave sin of "making more than sideline games for their mainline series." The Diablo thing is so overblown and wouldn't exist had that one guy asked the April fools statement
@@SECONDQUESThe Diablo thing isn’t over blown in the slightest. Diablo Immortal is just another example of Blizzard moving away from their core audience of PC players to literally anyone who will give them money.
Especially when you literally don't!
This guy reminds me of a woman from my hometown. Every business that she managed to get control of around here was shut down, went bankrupt, and one even burned to the ground. We always say that she's either cursed or a criminal.
Wait, *burned down*?? How??
I need details dammit!
@@michaelgum97 - Okay, so, one of the places she acquired was a popular town grill. For context on how much people loved that place, people are still talking about it twenty-six years after its demise, trying to petition for a rebuild. Anyway, about a month into her ownership, the whole place went up in flames. The fire department said it was due to faulty wiring, which this lady had "fixed" upon gaining the place. So, she probably hired some sketchy, under-the-table electrician(s). Now, the grill was the second time she'd caused a place to go under in some way, so there were a lot of raised eyebrows. After that, she someone managed to acquire a little thrift shop and dug it into so much debt that they were forced to close. This woman single-handedly took away every small pleasure this small town had, and people are still mad about, lol. I was a toddler when the grill burned down, yet I'm still mad because I remember how good their fry-shakes (sticking fries around the rim of a milkshake) were, lol.
I want to marry you.
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This video accurately predicted Stadia's inevitable death a little less than 2 months before it was announced. Aged like fine wine.
When I heard he was on the Stadia team back in 2020 and given Google's history with new projects, I just waited because I knew what would happen.
I knew soon at is was announced with no games
So true.
@@markoseriesagreed
@@turtleanton6539I'm it had plenty of games.
>bald
>changes (corporate) identities on a fly
>wears a suit, kind of
He's Hitman and he's taking them out one by one.
can he go work at EA or Activision then
@@fuzzydude64can't kill what's dead, they're already seen as horrible companies.
Yes their dead but nothing wants to decompose them back into the environment @@computer_dude
*Ave Maria intensifies*
That or he's a Thin Man from XCOM.
this guys a fucking SCP. Popped up outta nowhere and destroys everything in his path
We gotta call the SCP people to capture him
@Obama doESn’t care #NFT #NFTs #NFTCommmunity
Ew you like nfts?
@Obama doESn’t care #NFT 𒐫𒐫𒐫𒐫𒐫𒐫𒐫𒐫𒐫𒐫𒐫𒐫 WE BACKTRACED IT
13:18 You misunderstand, Phil didnt leave Infogrames BEFORE he could fuck it up. He arrived, saw it was a burning trash fire death spiraling into bankruptcy with release after release of shitty games. He was like tuxedo mask.
"MY WORK HERE IS DONE!"
"But, you didnt do anything."
*vanishes with a Cape flurl*
Honestly, I could see Phil coming back to Infogrames, now named Atari & putting it back into its dark ages.
I disagree
Poor Phil. I wonder if he has a “__ days since my last disaster” counter somewhere in his house.
he has the reverse midas touch
Except the PS3 outsold the 360 thanks to Asia and a large enough audience in the west. I don't count the WII because its the WII sports machine for most peoples eyes.
@@fakegeek5462 thanks for sharing
@@fakegeek5462okay Chad Daddy
@@terriblyterrified8742everything he touch turns to mold
"We wanted to keep him almost mythological. He comes from nowhere and goes back into nowhere."
Where have I read that before
It’s from columbo
Phil Harrison is basically the mothman of gaming. Every time he shows up, disaster strikes.
Agreed
The day Phil Harrison succeeds, hell will freeze over
The day Phil Harrison succeeds, all existence will cease to exist.
The day Phil Harrison succeeds, aquaman will drown.
Conspiracy theory: In Dante's Inferno, the very bottom of hell is frozen. He succeeded long, long ago. His goal is to spread discord and chaos wherever he treads
Maybe has succeeded. He’s ruined all he touches. Maybe that’s his game.
the fact google is seriously trying to push chrome books as gaming computers now (that, mind you, only play cloud games as far as the ads say) is laughably pathetic.
google wants to game so bad but they just cant
Companies like Google and Amazon gotta get through their heads that the video game industry is very different from the tech industry.
i use my chromebook to game but i dont have an actual PC and probably never will
This guy was the reason why Japanese games like RPGs, 2D Platformers, certain fighting games or anything with the smell of anime weren't allowed to be released in the U.S. for a while the only good thing that happened was that it lead to the creation of MegaMan Legends/Rockman DASH. Fun fact Rockman 8 Metal Heroes and Rockman X4 weren't originally going to release on the PlayStation in the U.S but because Capcom had a good relationship with Sony Phil bent the rules for Inafune as long as the PlayStation versions of 8 and X4 had exclusive content and as long as Sony got not only exclusive Rockman games but the first 3D Rockman game had to release on the PlayStation.
Really. Man you would think no big companies would hire him after that.
@@soggybubble yeah and even then those games were heavily censored on the PlayStation despite being the "mature" console it's nice to see that nothings changed
Oh shit, that's this guy? Man, fuck him!
Companies owned by american companies is a curse on itself tbh.
And with Japan you get a completely different curse.
With american companies you get the mindset of 'fuck the eastern games lets ruin them' and controveries like Actvision's disgusting male staff and sexual abuse.
with Japanese companies, you have to skirt around being slammed with a copyright violation
Meanwhile Sony of Europe had no issues with any game on the Platform on PS1,PS2/PSP,VITA. Sony USA was so weird they forced games to be sold in Two packs if they had no Extras on PSP/PS2 see Metal Slug 4 and 5. They Rejected 3 saying it wasnt good engough see PSP Breath of Fire 3 too. Then in PS3 era for a while they forced in US region only games with no English Dub to be Digital only. Namco did this with most Anime games on PSP/Vita only in US too.
But Reggie from Nintendo was doing stuff like this too on Wii.3DS,DS, just for US region but on games Nintendo Developed in House.
I have never heard a man describe a PS1 in 1994 in such boring terms. 'It's a Risc based mutli polygonal blah blah....'. It was one of my childhood favourites and I now no longer enjoy it after hearing this.
Makes me imagine how boring he would've made the failed Atari Jaguar sound.
I think he's like Peter Molyneux, he used to have the magic, as Phil did amazing work for the PS1, but the magic went long ago.
Agreed
He, Peter Molyneux, Randy Pitchfork and Tow "just works" Howard, are the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse of the gaming industry.
Of course he’s compared to Peter Molyneux lol
"Keeping Stadia on life support."
Lol, not any more.
Found you with your stalker video, the rest of your channel is very underrated.
Agreed.
The most elusive man who has done the most damage to major companies. How has nobody else made the connection yet?
Because no one cares
Time traveller who is trying to stop something from happening by running gaming companies through the ground?
Hearing that the PS3 was launched at $599 is insane
“Back then, I didn’t even know that much money existed.”
-Scott the Woz
$933 in today's money or $870 when the video was posted.
Just get a second job bro ez smh my head
launched for $999 dollars in aus. thousand dollar doorstopper was its nickname.
How does he keep getting these jobs seriously. Also considering he was the one to not have the blue ring of death getting fixed in the playstation and it's still impacting PlayStations just gotten worse I think his curse goes even deeper.
When you get enough power in the corporate world you can only fail upwards.
giant enemy crab
And its friend, the Small Enemy Spider
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I highly doubt it exists
@@leotheliongames Thank god it's not a Giant Enemy Spider
@@yellowstarproductions6743you'd be surprised
3:01 It's Colin Robinson, that explains everything, the guy is an Energy Vampire, he such all of the company powers.
The best explanation I can think of why Sony priced the PS3 at $599 at launch is due to the Blu-ray format Sony exclusively owned at the time. Blu-ray was new, fancy, and pricey. Players by themselves were around $200-$250 if I recall. On top of being a Blu-ray player, the PS3 had Internet access and could play CD's. That might explain why the price point was so high. Nintendo's consoles after the Wii are priced low due to them using older technology.
Facts
PS3 was the CHEAPEST blu ray player on the market.
The first player was 1k and they roughly halved in price every couple years, they were still $275-300 for the most part in 2009 even. At $600 the PS3 was a super viable competitor but people were not wanting a home media console at that price tag.
@@BakaVHS It was the first real "all-in-one" console that the Xbox One touted itself as 8 years later.
That + the fact it had the ps2's cpu (Emotion Engine) for backwards compatibility.
I remember Phil also had to present a new Battlefield game for XBOX ONE for E3 in 2013 and the trailer did not start. He had to ask whether or not to continue the presentation and then they got it fixed, but he had to break stage character. Nothing major, but it was still part of the Harrison curse.
D'you know, from "How You Killed Your Brand" (early PS3 era) to the Xbox One reveal to Stadia, I'm really glad there's a video that confirmed I'm not the only one who noticed "This man somehow keeps getting involved with disastrous projects" lol
Cleverly playing the Baldi's Basics theme is just perfect
Nintendo be like: Hell no you ain’t working with us
Agreed.
Not like he wouldn't somehow make the wiiu situation even worse if he joined them around then.
This poor millionaire, its going to take a lot of very extremely expensive wine daily to make it through, but i have faith he will make it.
I highly doubt it.
I could imagine this guy being an scp an anomaly that warps in and out of existence with the sole purpose to kill or at least heavily damage video game companies it's be funny if this turned out to be true
SCP or CIA?
@@remcovanhal6336definitely scp
This analysis confirms what we all knew during those periods, he is evil.
BTW stellar music choices in this video. The older vids really utilized a ton of my favorites.
if Phil Harrison is truly cursed, maybe he can go work for Electronic Arts (EA).
I can't believe anyone would hire the BillionLossBoss "Phil" after PS3...
Chad Warden, now that's who you hire!
I highly doubt it.
Plot twist Phil still works for Sony and was sent to destroy the competition after they saw his abilities in screwing things up
Yep Stadia died. Everyone saw that coming.
Agreed
Wait, judging by the dates we do have, Phil’s in his 60s? That Eldridge entity theory is actually looking pretty valid…
He should take Activision as his next victim
Please. Knowing how twisted this fucked up world is, he would do it so he Uno Reverses the Microsoft deal so that THEY own Microsoft, and he and Bobby procede to devour the rest of the gaming industry.
@@Guymanbot97 meh, I don't think so. They may hire him, but Not in a so high Position again!
Or Atari considering how easy it would be to destroy them since they're a rather poor HALF of a shell of its former self(the other half is Warner Bros. Interactive).
@daraenxd8360
Agreed
I was wondering if this was gonna be about Peter Molyneux.
I remember how in history giant crabs were a constant problem.
“And the Game Industry’s biggest mistake as well”
The Video Game Crash of '83: Am I a joke to you?
Yup, only effected USA market
this guy's work should be studied as what to not do on any gaming company, with the first thing that shall never be done being hire him lmfao
You channel will grow. You are the only person making content about this guy. Well done
Wasn't paying attention to the thumbnail and thought it was peter molyneux
Phil is the OG bad luck Brian lol.
What a sad existence you must live if the only thing you are known for is all the failures in your life. Imagine your interview where your portfolio shows how everything goes wrong as soon as you are the leader
Uh oh, looks like the curse has butchered stadia now too, phil strikes again
That fact that this video was recommended too me at 1:15 AM is a clear sign for me too subscribe.
Edit: 5:23 and I love the silent hill theme you put.
The UA-cam Algorithm is an enigma
cool i got this recommended at 1:15 aswell good job youtube algorithm
it's all down-phil from here...
I get the joke😏
If I had a nickel for each Magic Mush videos about a guy named Phil released in 2022 I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
I understood that reference
@emerson-biggons7078 so did I soldier.
imma say that the curse of phil harrison is deadlier than we think.
we know the main effect of the curse, if phil is in a position of power, the company makes a spectacular blunder
however, if he isn't in power yet still in the company, the company will be marked for death and will go bankrupt eventually...
the only way a company can get rid of the mark is by doing a fusion dance like it's dragon ball z with another company marked for death (as we seen with atari and infogrames)
😅
That will never work.
Also that is a joke.
@@caiuswalter-smith3385I agree
The Stadia died… oh no.
yay
Yo, this vid is just Underrated af.
the man has left in the past few days from google... also how tf does this only have 22k views its easily like 500k+ quality and entertainment value
Has anyone considered the possibility that Phil is doing this intentionally? I mean, is it all really bad luck and ineptitude, or are these the calculated schemings of a man bent on an industry's collapse?
I'd say it's a calculated scheme of his handlers. He's likely just a pawn in the game of corpo dipshits.
The Phil Spencer part didn't age well.
Lmao
Realistically he only had any real effect on Sony.
The Xbox One was already being made when he joined. As stated in the video, he only did (admittedly quite poor) damage control.
Stadia was dead on arrival. There was never going to be any success there.
Men like this guy are the reason why indie games as a whole are becoming better than AAA games.
Unless you're FromSoft or MAYBE Nintendo or Capcom.
Phil is the living vessel of the hatred of the Magnavox Odyssey. Long forgotten, it shall not rest until all of modern gaming is destroyed.
I can't believe that to this day, in 2023, the PlayStation 3 still has no games
Memes that aged really badly lol.
Same thing with PS5.
Looking at phil Harrison I can’t help but be reminded of how Paul hamon got into wrestling just by bullshiting people into thinking he had ton of experience. Or how orson wells got his first acting gig by convincing an Irish acting trope he was a big deal in America. I wouldn’t be surprised if before working for PlayStation he hadn’t even heard of video games. He just bullshited his way to the top over and over again
Vivid Image's 2 most popular games The First & Second Samurai recently got ported to Switch.
I just found your account and I really enjoy your videos!
Thats Not Playstation , Thats Will Ferrell!🤣
Thank the UA-cam algorithm gods cause this dudes funny 😭
9:20 Well… The more things change, the more they stay the same. *looks at PS5 Pro price of $799* 😂
If You are from England and you are not in public records you are so rich you could own slaves. Thats not hyperbolic. That man is British aristocracy. Incompetent and cruel but the world will warp around him because he represents his family's money.
Down with the monarchy.
Now why would he be so keen to hide his early-life? 🤔
Phil is like the Black Spot in Dead Man's Chest for gaming companies basically, The Bald Spot
Why does phil look like bald todd howard?
Hahahaha
I only know him by his appearance on G4 in the sub program G4 Icons, there were fun 20 minute documentaries
Thought this video was going to be about Peter Molyneux at first simply on the basis that it's about a cursed man in the game industry who happens to be balding. Weirdly, it looks like Phil is even more bald than Peter.
The video ended 10 minutes ago & I still have Daft Punk's _🎶Robot Rock🎶_ stuck in my head lol
You have good taste in video game music. I loved Wonky Circus' first half playing for the XBox One release
Love your humorous commentaries subbed!
dude is a real life scp
Agreed
Class: Keter
Great video as always. I love your style. But man, that song at 2:07 is so familiar. What is it?
Some zelda OoT dungeon music Im sure
@@legendaryole yea shadow temple
You should definitely invite this man into your YT channel. Just to see how it goes it terms of the view lol
Predicting the Switch successor is doomed if he joins Nintendo, another 'the last console was so successful, what could go wrong?'
I kinda feel like this about todd Howard. Theres not alot of personal info out there about him
Giving Phil the barest benefit of the doubt, Microsoft was kind of fucked before he even showed up. You all remember Windows 8, right?
Elon Musk / Todd Howard of the gaming industry.
The Play Station still has no games, such a travesty 😔
I hope one day he interviews for another big company, and the interviewer goes, "oh no, I've seen the MagicMush video."
the baldi's basics music lmfao
20:00 "Stadia is not shutting down"
that didn't age well
Agreed.
Subscribed today, you got great taste in background game music
Sure Sony wouldn’t repeat this mistake again, releasing a brand new console with zero games that forced them to support their previous system for way too long?
Right? …. Right?
And inb4 muh COVID: Nobody forced them to just not delay the whole thing. Asia knew about Corona way earlier than us.
What i read in console wars, this dude goes to companies and leaves if he senses its gonna fail.
Aged like fine wine!!
I have a theory about the man you're talking about is literally a alien that made a deal with Apple to crush every other competition
Stadia was so obscure to me. The marketing was barely there.
only thing i remember is that awful ad
This guy is the Mothman of video games lol
What have you done? Like the beast producing deafening growls in your ear when you think you're all alone, you aren't supposed to turn your head to chance looking directly at it! Even a peripherary glance is too risky, but you've gone and put Phil squarely in our path! Now the curse this wretch harbors will spread like a greedy infection, you may well have doomed us all!
"currently working at Google's games division" NOT ANYMORE
I just stumbled upon your channel and can't stop watching your shit. Keep shitting it out 🙌
Oh, I figured out what his curse is
He’s British!
So he is like SpongeBob’s cousin
Guy looks like the energy vampire from what we do in the shadows.
It literally was a cost reduction. It was a cost of manufacturing reduction. Price cuts come with loss in proft per unit. Cost reduction is about the actual cost of manufacturing. This means Sony still made the same about of money (negative amounts because its a console and they make money with licensing) but everything was scaled down.
When you bought a reduced price ps3 you got an entirely different product that had less features and removed an entire systems worth of backwards compatibility.
This is different than saying "i will sell you the same product for cheaper." They are saying "i will sell you an inferior product for cheaper." The success of this is (in my opinion) where the xbox series s comes from, and the digital only editions of consoles.
I wonder what Phil would think watching a video like this
This man should start a podcast with John Riccitiello.
“He’s one of the only people to work for Xbox and PlayStation”
He’s now in competition with the entirety of Bungie
Okay. To be fair to Microsoft, at least they made their E3 presentation only about games, which is more than I cn say for Sony's. Say what you will about the dunking Sony gave Microsoft at the end of their 2013 E3, but around the middle, they had a big chunk of movie talk with Sony Pictures.
These two are lucky E3 2021's press conferences that weren't by the ones from the big 3 that participated or devolver were so bad they even make Nintendo's E3 2015 digital event look like their 2004 conference