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FlamingWeazel on 29 January 2014
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sales2099 said:
areason said:
sales2099 said:

Don Mattrick dropped the ball. He systematically screwed the Xbox brand with his media approach over gaming.

Any business expert can tell you he paid no attention to what Sony was doing in terms of specs, price, and PR approach. Hope he rots at Zynga. Now we gotta spend the gen waiting it out, hopefully giving MS the ephiphany Sony got with PS3 and make the successor what we want.


It is clear with microsoft's strategies throughout the past five years that they would rather create an overall balanced entertainement system, then a console with other usages. I don't think they are going to turn tides, you can tell by their emphasis on kinect and tv apps as well as the next quantic dream game having a possible tv series. The x1 is still a very good gaming console, and MS are giving in terms of games what they have always done, as well as new ips. 

Yup...pretty much after Peter Moore left and Don Mattrick took the helm this trend happened. I mean at the time people like me played it down but honestly, offcourse we would have liked the exclusives to take the spotlight from 2009, 2011-2013 (always viewed 2010 as a excellent 360 year for games).

The policy reversals Don put in place is allready a good sign of things to come. Now MS is PR focused more then ever, with twitter accounts answering questions and being more open in general then they ever were before.

Things like Kinect and Quantic having tv roots is harder to drop. Their foundations run deeper then things that could be fixed with a simple firmware update. I imagine enough X1's have to be sold to justify the kinect R&D before deciding to drop it to make X1 more competitive.

You clearly don;t know how companies work. mattrick/Peter, whoever was not a one man show in a huge project as big as a console launch, he had to get approval right up the chain and everyone had to be on board, from everyone in hardware, software, engineers, executives... Stop trying to blame 1 man, it simply is not the case.