Anyone liked the Don Mattrick era better than Phil Spencer?

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Veknoid_Outcast said:

Honestly, I don't know. Spencer is more camera-friendly, but hasn't done anything, really, to build up Microsoft's first-party studios. He probably wants to, but Microsoft doesn't want to throw a lot of money at a business line that's minor in the grand scheme of things.

Mattrick presided over some pretty lousy years for Xbox: 2010-2013. Looking back, 2010 seems to be the end of an era -- the last great Halo game and the introduction of Kinect, which would go on to hamstring the XOne launch.

Frankly, I don't think it really matters who the face of Xbox is. The glory years on 360 are gone and probably lost forever. Microsoft will continue to monetize evergreen series like Halo, Gears, and Forza, and continue to make money off subscriptions, controllers, and micro-transactions, but it won't invest the time and money into the Xbox ecosystem necessary for a true contender in the console space.

There is very little Spencer can do, the damage has already been done by Don to a degree that it will take a miracle to make xbox1 compete with PS4. The other possibilty is, of course, that Sony does something REALLY STUPID that would give xbox a chance to get back in competition but this is highly unlikey as they seem to have learned a painful lesson from PS3.