Is he the worst CEO in gaming history? Anyone else would’ve fixed Don Mattrick’s mess years ago

Is he the worst CEO in gaming history? Anyone else would’ve fixed Don Mattrick’s mess years ago

Killed Halo and Gears from sheer incompetence and ensuring they’ll never be as popular as they were in the 2000’s

Released expensive flop after expensive flop between Starfield and Redfall

Multiple games in development hell between Perfect Dark, Fable, and whatever the fuck Double Fine and Rare are working on

Their one success story was Hi-Fi Rush, and they shut the development team down

Forced to release exclusives on PlayStation and Switch to recover costs

You already mentioned Don Mattrick who is probably the actual worst CEO.
He was the guy who thought Xbox was too good for games, what a retard.

Definitely the worst, he makes me miss mattrick

I dunno, I still think ol' donny boy was worse.
I mean, he and his team were the ones who did it after all.

Don Mattrick undid every single thing he planned for Xbox One when it was revealed people hated it. He was at worst wildly out of touch but understood when people didn't like something. Meanwhile Phil Spencer, who claims to actually play vidya, I mean how can he buy all these studios but produce 0 games? Mattrick could take a hint, it seems Spencer cannot. They're both bad but I think Spencer is worse.

I have a product for you OP, it's called Xbox 360.

I genuinely think he's mentally retarded. Not just from how he runs things but just seeing how he speaks when he doesn't have a teleprompter guiding him, literal 70 IQ grugtarded speech patterns. I have no clue how the fuck he made it this far in his career while being so blatantly incompetent and stupid.

dude manages game studios as his PRIMARY JOB. his public facing roll is largely a side gig. think of yoshida from ffxiv where is director of ffxiv but also has to act as fucking main PR producer when it should be another mans paid salary.

I say that Mattrick is the worst because it was under his watch that Xbox stopped being about games.
I owned an Xbox 360, and it was legitimately a good console with really nice exclusives. But towards the end of its life I noticed no more exclusive 360 games, meanwhile the PS3 was still getting cool games specially for its console.

Fast forward to the Xbox One and there are NO FUCKING GAMES on that console, no exclusives at all except maybe shit like Forza. That's what caused the long term downfall of the Xbox, they forgot the part where they're supposed to give the console some fucking games.

CEOs are the fall guy. The real retards are the board guys making decisions. They passed on Genshin Impact because it was too "low radar".

nah he's the best
microsoft should've died years ago

*blocks your path*

Mattrick killed the brand; that's a quite high bar.... but Phil has been so lazy 3 years in he's very close to become the worst CEO due sheer virtue of doing fucking nothing to improve the brand... and then he only went to buy shit and still done anything

I don't know if he's the worst CEO in gaming history, but he's been pretty fucking terrible for gaming as a whole. He went around and bought up a bunch of great game studios to put them under the Xbox family brand, then allowed Microsoft corpo politics to interfere with everything, shit out an underwhelming game, and then close the studio.

I feel like a big part of the current AAA slump has to do with Phil and MS buying up too many good devs then shitcanning them out of the industry.

He went around and bought up a bunch of great game studios

What great game studios? He only went after shit or places with a very popular IPs to normalfags (which weren't good because of it)

Holy shit a thread filled with sony shills

Microsoft is probably the most active major publisher when it comes to releasing games.

avowed

south of midnight

oblivion remastered

doom

tony hawk

gears of war

the outer worlds 2

cod

ninja gaiden 4

and probably more just this year. You have no clue what you're talking about.

That email exchange with Satya shows that Phil is too much of a salaryman instead of a leader.
Goddamn just remembering that email gives me secondary cringe; Satya was just casually asking a question and Phil went complete chatgpt bootlicking...

Mattrick was too ahead of his time. The Series S is everything he wanted from the xbone barring the kinect.

I don’t know if it’s even his call but the merging of the ecosystem with pc is great. They need to take it even further and blur the lines completely though.

MS has be producing a shit ton of games finally

How many are worthwhile exclusives that'll save the brand?

>Multiple games in development hell

Don't forget if they manage to escape developmental hell, they're absolute dog shit.

MS has be producing a shit ton of games finally

*Xbox

I wouldn't be surprised if this faggot one day launches a Ps5 exclusive

Yeah because Nintendo raped snoy and ms when those tow knuckleheads gave up on making actual games

It's a given one game will be PS6 exclusive, uñtimate humilliation ritual... but that assumes people cares about xbox related IPs or that they're that much starved for games

the hi fi rush fiasco should've fired him
how on earth he is still working at xbox is just beyond me

Kutaragi goes on stage with $499 meme and states "console wars are over"

Replaces them with brand loyalism

Nintendo proceeds to ride the wave Sony was building up with PS1 and PS2 with Wii and reap all the benefits

Sony and Xbox try to replicate what work to Nintendo with no avail at all

Then Nintendo, once again, proceeds to win big time with an outdated tablet hacked week 1 by a fucking paperclip because it had videogames while PS/Xbox were too busy killing their exclusives and trying to sell bazingflops memes

But this time Nintendo manhandled rape them instead

They didn't realize consolewars ended because they lost the hardest possible trying to compete against a game company, even if they get out like Sega did it would look better at this point

Anyone else would’ve fixed Don Mattrick’s mess years ago

Mattrick dropped the ball on the most important gen ever (business wise, not game wise). PS4 crushing it on the gen digital distribution took off meant that consumers were locked into the Playstation ecosystem if they wanted to keep their games.

so many good games under mattrick. kys phil

90% of these are games that would have been published by their original publishers if they never got bought by microsoft. keep coping

The problem with Mattrick wasn't Kinect, it was that Always On served Micrsofts needs and not the consumer in any way. IF MS wants to get back in the lead, they need to do the opposite. This is impossible knowing the indians working their, but lets dream.

The time of the living room PC is here. You don't need a mouse and a keyboard. Just tell AI and it will do it. A tablet that has on board AI, not on the cloud, and not sold to you. Just enough for system management and dictation. But it's always there. They could sell generative AI, but this is how they win the next paradigm shift.

Your tablet is your laptop, its your desktop, its your Xbox. It goes anywhere and, after an initial sync with tv's, just turns on when you enter different rooms at the house, office, etc. (TV input switching has become a cancer begging to be solved)

We don't need keyboard and mouse. We don't need controllers. They can be added wirelessy and will be used frequently, but the core system would just be a 10 inch tablet, with a small thin architect (from matrix) style wii'mote that slides into the back of the unit. Trigger, mouse, mic, and steampad style touch on the remote.

The world is ready for the living room PC. Will it be a phone, will it be a tablet, will it be a watch? It will have some predominantly pro-consumer element to it that totally changes how we interact with systems, similar to if not exactly like I mentioned above. And that is why it's not going to be Microsoft.

That's cope from Microsoft to justify giving up honestly. Plenty of people were already locked in digitally with the xbox 360 and they switched to the ps4 anyway because it was the best way to play Call of Duty.

avowed

Mediocre

south of midnight

sweet baby trash

oblivion remastered

Remaster

doom

Mulitplat

tony hawk

Multiplat remaster

gears of war

remaking the first game a second time in a row, also multiplat

the outer worlds 2

Multiplat

cod

Multiplat

ninja gaiden 4

Multiplat
Fuck is the point of owning an xbox

colonizing PS5s into Xboxes

He's the best CEO to ever do it at Xbox.

Ponies only follow the herd. They don't think for themselves.

Jim Ryan spent PlayStation's warchest on Bungie and live-service games, and they still haven't recouped their investments.

Tell me again which company published Concord?

WE CAN'T WIN THE CONSOLE WAR

what a leader

You're on to something, we might come to a time where a copilot Ai can be a living room pc.

But the reason why PC was moved into bedrooms was because people like look at their own things by themselves whcih reinforced privacy. Having their PC in the living room means sharing and no privacy. That Ai Copilot will come for families only.

He made the logically right call (at the time) because Xbox is effectively locked out of Japan. What he didn't expect was that the chinese market would show itself as a viable alternative. Sony promptly recognized it and invested heavily.

In the last decade, with each single fucking release, you could see the gaming community shitting on Xbox, it was actually funny. No games and the hardware made basically no difference.

Killing Scalebound made me give up on that shit.

I don't understand delegation

He's not responsible for the failures of dev teams, but he is responsible for not addressing the issues after the fact.

Yea should cancel Starfield after he visit Todd's office

You can't cancel something that's already been released