With the confidence of a man who had been waiting his whole career to say this, Spencer took to the podium, squared his shoulders, and proclaimed:

"Xbox has always been about pushing boundaries, about embracing the misfits, the outcasts, the games that dared to be different. And when I look back at what truly inspired this journey—what really gave us the X in Xbox—it wasn’t PlayStation. It wasn’t PC gaming. It was… Sega 32X."

The audience, at first, chuckled politely, assuming a joke was forthcoming. It did not come.

Spencer spoke with a reverence usually reserved for Shigeru Miyamoto discussing Zelda’s design philosophy, except instead of Hyrule, he was talking about Corpse Killer, Blackthorne, and Doom (the ugly, choppy, near-unplayable 32X version). He framed Sega’s infamous failure not as an ill-conceived add-on, not as a desperate gasp from a dying hardware maker, but as a vision—a glorious first draft of what Xbox would later become.

"32X wasn’t afraid to be bold," he insisted. "It had an edge. It was grimy, unpredictable. And that’s the kind of energy we want to bring to Xbox moving forward."

The room shifted uncomfortably. This was not the standard script. Typically, Xbox executives discuss ecosystem growth, cloud integration, and the nebulous “future of gaming.” But Spencer had no interest in those topics. His eyes gleamed with something else: the zeal of a man who had gazed into the abyss of Tempo and Metal Head and found, against all odds, a higher truth. Spencer was not content to simply recontextualize the past—he was ready to act on it. With an unnerving conviction, he announced that the future of Xbox would embrace what he called the “Scummy Aesthetic” of 32X’s most violent and deranged titles. Gone were the sleek, polished AAA prestige games. In their place? A return to something rawer, grimier.

"We want games that smell like mildew and old carpet. Games that feel like they belong in a strip mall arcade where the change machine is broken," he said, his voice almost trembling. "We want to bring back the kind of interactive experiences that make you feel like you’re doing something… wrong."

To punctuate this point, a sizzle reel played, showcasing upcoming Xbox projects. The trailer was a jarring departure from Xbox’s usual fare. Gone were cinematic RPGs and photorealistic shooters; instead, we saw digitized actors screaming in terror, FMV cutscenes with deliberately poor compression, and low-resolution blood splatter animations reminiscent of an early-’90s CD-ROM game.

Among the highlights:

Corpse Killer: Reanimated Edition – A full remake of the notoriously bad 32X FMV shooter, promising "revolutionary rotoscoping techniques" that make characters look worse.

Brutal Existence – A sandbox survival horror game described as "GTA if it were coded entirely in 1995 by a man going through a divorce."

X-Treme Carnage – A new first-person brawler with the tagline "Every punch should feel like a legal liability."

Spencer, clearly intoxicated by his own rhetoric, ended with this final, chilling statement:

"Xbox isn’t just a platform. It’s an attitude. And that attitude is Sega 32X."

It’s easy to mock this turn of events. In fact, it’s necessary. No sane observer would look at the catastrophic failure of the 32X and decide, in 2025, that its spirit should be resurrected. The 32X was a hardware disaster, an aesthetic catastrophe, and a financial blunder that helped drive Sega out of the console business. And yet… there’s something undeniably compelling about this madness. Gaming has spent the last decade sandblasting itself clean, stripping away anything too raw, too ugly, too unmarketable. Spencer’s grotesque, neon-drenched fever dream of a future—a return to gaming’s grimiest, most disreputable instincts—has an X factor, if you will.

Will it work? Almost certainly not. Will it be interesting? Absolutely.

Perhaps, in some strange way, Spencer is right. Maybe Xbox was always fated to be 32X’s true heir. Maybe, deep down, it was always supposed to be Scummy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5675077&forum_id=2#48620619)

https://youtu.be/zj27z4qR51o?t=445

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5675077&forum_id=2#48621246)