Looking back, was Don Mattrick the source of Xbox One PR disaster?

[Darth Tigris]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Darth Tigris said:
The disaster was the leaks and the way the internet obsessed over them. MS lost the ability to control the message about the One. Seriously, the reveal could've shown a full scale holodeck in action and afterwards all people would've wanted to know about was used games and DRM. It became all people wanted to know about when it wasn't even supposed to be this big of a thing.

Listen, I dig a good leak too, but I quite clearly see how destructive they can truly be when let loose on the world with zero context.

But MS itself transformed it into a shitstorm. They could have used all those new features as an INCENTIVE and REWARD for users CHOOSING to stay online and with Kinect turned on, without trying to force always online, Kinect always on and without trying to kill used games market and cutting off users that for any reasons don't want or just cannot be always online. All those new things offered without trying to force the users in any way would have been a TOTAL PR victory and an excellent launch for those new features. But no, too fair and too simple, paranoid and power-hungry Lardmer couldn't live without trying to take control of his users lives...

I have no idea how complicated it would've been to execute and maintain BOTH strategies with one console, or how confusing that message would be for consumers in general, but I'm guessing it wouldn't have worked out as cleanly and neatly as we or MS would've liked.

As someone that got Google Fiber two weeks before the One launched, I sure would've loved the original plan personally, but c'est la vie ...