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

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xboxgreen said:

curl-6 said:

They've acquired half the industry at this point but that doesn't seem to have helped; the problem is that MS doesn't seem very good at managing the studios they acquire. You can't just buy your way into a great first party position, you need to be able to properly nurture the studios you own.

What are you talking about? Microsoft is dominating the software sales charts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/xbox/comments/1lw8n5k/2025_yeartodate_top_20_bestselling_premium_games/#lightbox

Console hardware is meaning less and less these days. All about software and subscribers. Even Sony is using player engagement .

They just laid of thousands of people and cancelled multiple games that had been in the works for years.

Hardware is of immense importance to those who can actually sell hardware; Microsoft are de-emphasizing it because they are failing at it.