| Machiavellian said: Nothing you stated changes the fact that Phil made these decisions. If anything, because there is no more leeway for Phil to continue to spend money and not be accountable for it that he needed to make these decisions. Also, lawyers cannot just keep emails away from courts or protect them. If Satya had any say so in the direction, purchase, Acquistion or input in MS gaming, all those correspondences are game. Satya has a reputation just like all CEOs and that include Phil as well. The only difference is that Phil goes out and make these public feel-good statements while Satya does whatever CEO usually does and keep to himself. There is a lot of pressure running a company the size of MS and the same is said for Phil when he got promoted. Yeah, before that promotion he could be mister feel good. Now he has to account for way more than just those feel-good statements and if he wants to make sure Xbox continue, he has to make some tough sometimes painful decisions. Ryuu, there is no technicality here. Phil only reports to Satya and no one else. Amy may have some input, but she does not direct Phil. Until we hear otherwise, I suggest you all stop giving Phil a bypass here and believe that he made these decisions not because he was forced but because his job demanded he make them or MS will find someone else who probably would be way more cutthroat. |
But these "feel-good statements" are just fine if you ask me. I'm not sure why people point those out as something that should prevent what happened to those studios or anything hypocritical (or flip-floping or whatever things people are coming up with). Just because he is giving those studios a lot of 'space' to innovate and try out things (and tweet about his desire to do so and so far nothing is proving the opposite; he seems to be doing that) does not mean that those studios do not have answers anymore and do not have targets to reach (and def. those targets are adjusted with GamePass in mind; no matter what some idiot on tweeter claim).
People lost their jobs, it sucks, big time, but this is just normal in the current context (look all around the industry, and not only this year); but saying that Phil Spencer should not share his vision or stuff like that because he may have to make decisions that are not going to be popular is wrong. I mean, what do you want, him to say nothing? Because the "gaming community/media" is a bunch of crybabies who make a mountain out of nothing every time, something is not a rainbow? Nah, that's not what I want.
