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Machiavellian on 22 February 2019
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DonFerrari said:

Machiavellian said:

You can believe all you want but without actually knowing you are just making an assumption on what you think happen not actually knowing anything.  So until you actually know, why don't you table that opinion until you can find proof. I will be the first to say I have no clue and I will not form an opinion until I actually have more information then a gut check.  

How do you know how long it takes to increase a team with talent then just filling it with a head count.  Also how do you know how long it would take to get a quality team instead of just filling a position.  Just wondering where you are getting your metric from because I know from my development house we have gone through many people over the years in interviews and only hired 2 people in 3 years.

Yes sure, makes a lot of sense.... "we passed 3 years interviewing and selecting, but no good candidates on the past 30 months, now in these last 6 months they all appeared" or would you prefer "we have interviewed all this people along 3 years and decided to hire they all at the same time"? Same for the companies they bought. I'm pretty sure it takes time to make the evaluation, contract and all, but finishing all at the same time doesn't seem like all started several years ago.

Anyway, will you deny that he talking it isn't of showing anything for several years have more to do with PR to keep the company image and sales than anything else?

Nothing happens in just 6 months.  It takes years to get to that point.  Your whole argument is that you believe everything just happen during this stretch of time.  For some reason you are making an argument since Phil said in 2015 he wanted to increase MS first party studios, suddenly magic happens and everything begins at that point.

As to your last paragraph, I have no clue what it took for him to get to this point.  Only thing I do know is that there were multiple rumors that MS was not serious about the Xbox division and during the stretch of time Phil has commanded the ship, he has been promoted over the entire gaming line as well as actually achieving what he stated.  My point is that we as consumers we only see the end results.  What we do not see is the effort to get to that point.  From my own experience, acquisition take time.  Just because you see an announcement within the same time frame does not mean they all was concluded at the same time.  MS controls when they announce anything and it could easily have been their strategy to do it now.