Who did more damage to Xbox's console business: Don Mattrick or Phil Spencer?

[RolStoppable]

Imaginedvl said:

RolStoppable said:

Easily Phil Spencer. After all, he was there all along with Don Mattrick to conceive the Xbox One blunder. Mattrick had to take the blame and got fired, but it was always a bit weird that some other higher-up from this team of leadership took over and was supposed to represent a humbled Xbox team that had a better understanding of what gamers want.

Like what? Being able to use the library they spent so much money while buying into the Play Station ecosystem on any new Xbox console? Cause that's definitely 90% of the issue with this generation. Xbox could never have come back from the Xbox One debacle after that. 70% of the market was locked down, making people switch back to Xbox was almost impossible after that and Mattrick is 100% responsible for that as HE was the one leading the show, not Spencer.

 

Not to mention, Mattrick left by himself to go screw up another good company after that, he did not get fired (only some people on the internet speculated that...)

The ecosystem argument is nothing more than a convenient excuse for Spencer's failure in management. Do you know why? Because before the PS4 launched, Xbox fans talked about how Microsoft had locked down the USA due to the Xbox 360's significant lead over the PS3 and the ecosystem argument. But it turned out that the ecosystem didn't matter.

And let's not forget that Nintendo went from losing badly with the Wii U to win the following generation while having no ecosystem whatsoever carry over from the Wii U and 3DS to Switch. How did Nintendo pull this off? They fixed the hardware and released great games on a consistent basis. Spencer only fixed the hardware side for Xbox with Series, but the software side was full of failure and disappointment and that is what can be called to account for 90% of the issue with this generation; most of the rest is the decision to strip the Xbox console business of exclusive games. What Spencer has created is a completely redundant box in the console market and he hammered the final nail in the coffin with his decision to release Microsoft games on the PS5.

If Mattrick didn't get fired as you say, that only makes things look a lot worse for Xbox management decisions. What you are saying is that they would have kept him if he hadn't left on his own.