JIm Ryan Retiring in March 2024

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method114 said:

I never really understood the hate against Jim Ryan. Then again he wasn't in charge very long. On the other hand it was always weird to me how much praise Phil Spencer got when IMO he has failed to deliver for a very long time. Phil's had almost 10 years and I just haven't seen anything from Xbox.

When Phil did that interview with Destin basically blaming Larian for BG3 not working on Series S it was pretty disgusting. He knows he's had multiple devs complaining about that machine and he still is willing to throw devs under the bus like that. Devs that worked so hard on their game and to just trash them so casually like that I couldn't believe it.

Yep. Under Jim Ryan (be it his decisions that brought it or whatever) PS is hitting record numbers in revenue, units shipped, etc and under Phil Spencer even with several billion expend they are trailing X1 (which he was involved but blame falls squarely on Don Mattrick). Jim is mocked as bad CEO and Phil praised as a saint, just because Jim isn't giving 10 interviews a month and pretending to be friendly gamer.