Xbox's New Lead: 5 Things You Should Know About Julie Larson-Green

[Slimebeast]

Seece said:

Slimebeast said:

Absoutely nothing suggests she cares or knows anything more about gaming than Don Matrix. And that's not much.

Look at her path in the company. It's all related to leadership and different divisions, typical corporate stuff but without any expertise in the field they put her in.

She might be a superb executive and knows how to lead people and run a business. But the negative thing with a leader that has no passion in its own products is that MS will remain out of touch with the market. We won't see any change in them trying to understand the market better or trying to earn longevity and trust among the people like Sony does.

In concrete terms this means Xbox will continue to jump on the latest bandwagon while implementing features nobody really cares about, and meanwhile sticking to the strategy of only focusing on a few key blockbuster titles, while the competition will work long-term continuing to build a genuine reputation, and a broad and sophisticated lineup of games.

Except the actual evidence we have is that they're doing the opposite in a lot of respects and have opened many new studios that are doing smaller games. Project Spark being one of them, and bringing back old IP like Zoo Tycoon. We've yet to see games from many of those studios but don't instantly dismiss them Slime.

Yeah I don't have fool proof evidence but I try to learn from history. I lost all my faith in their ability to understand and deliver.