Update: Jade Raymond joins Google as Vice President | Rumor: Google's gaming console details leaked, possible controller design revealed via patent

[DonFerrari]

shikamaru317 said:

I’m excited to finally be able to share that I have joined Google as VP!

— Jade Raymond (@ibjade) March 12, 2019

Jade Raymond, former Assassin's Creed Executive Producer and head of Ubisoft Toronto and EA Motive, has joined Google as a Vice President, very likely within the gaming division. She will likely report to Phil Harrison, former Xbox and Playstation executive who joined Google as a Vice President last year and is believed to be heading up the Google Gaming Division. It is quite possible that she will be running a new 1st party studio for Google. They are definitely taking this gaming initiative seriously. 

Don't know Jade Raymond historic, but considering she is coming from two well hated publishers with bad practices and that Phil Harrison also have a bad historic on his endeavors on consoles that doesn't bring much faith on their project for me.

JEMC said:

DonFerrari said:

Shall we pray for it to crash and burn or that they bring even more good games? I chose the second knowing the first will happen.

I wish them success and I hope they bring good games. But, if they want to have success disturbing the market buying studios (maybe even publishers?) left and right causing the market to fragment even more, then I hope they fail and burn.

haxxiy said:

I don't think because a company is super huge that they'll necessarily use their economic power to subsidize their products. MS didn't do that with the Xbox for instance. In fact, quite the oposite. These companies are their size exactly because their margins of profits are so massive, and shareholders would find it somewhat strange to join a market where there isn't the chance to do so.

So I welcome the competition, and hope for good things in the future (though failure is the most likely scenario).

That's true, but it also depends on how aggressive they are and which are their ultimate goals. After all, those companies also got to be what they are because they weren't affraid to bet big on their projects.

Seems like a fair position to take.