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shikamaru317 said:

Machiavellian said:

I believe what I have seen from MS as a whole and if anything, if they did fire both Bond and Phil than MS probably going to drop out of the hardware business than anything else.  If you believe them putting this woman into the CEO office to go back to the old days that really doesn't make any sense in todays climate.  If anything, she is there to transition MS out of hardware period and just a placeholder until they understand what they want to do.  I believe a lot of the previous decisions were done to try to please the top brass at MS so why would anything change now.  You guys are just way to easy to jump on ever piece of rumor or BS you heard in the while and go with that when most people are just throwing stuff at the wall to see what stick.

All I can say is that doesn't match with anything we're hearing, neither from reputable journalist sources, nor the public statements and interviews that Asha and Booty are doing. So basically either Asha and Booty are lying to their own underlings at Xbox and to the public, or the plan isn't to come in and kill hardware.

If they wanted to kill Xbox hardware, they didn't need to get rid of Phil or Sarah to do it, Phil has been slowly damaging Xbox's hardware viability for years now with decision after decision that watered down it's appeal, decisions like free online play on PC but not Xbox, cheaper Gamepass on PC than on console, less and less moneyhatted timed exclusives, day one PC ports, culminating in day one PS5 ports. We've heard from reputable sources that Sarah was ordered from above, by Phil, to go ahead with the "This Is An Xbox" marketing campaign and Xbox Game Studios releases on PS5, that they knew would badly damage Xbox hardware sales. Why would Phil and Sarah suddenly do a 180 on Xbox hardware and say "you know what, we've decided that Xbox hardware needs to stay, and if you want to kill Xbox hardware, you'll have to fire us first". 

Well of course it doesn't match with what you are hearing because what you are hearing is just a bunch of people throwing stuff at the wall as I stated.  All you have to do is look at the CEO of MS, hear his words and see MS direction to understand where MS is going and it's not back to a traditional console.  The reason you get rid of Phil and Bond is because the direction of the company is going away from not only the hardware business but a lot of the gaming business in general which is something easily would make both Bond and Phil bounce. 

I have been through enough CEO shakeups to see a very prepared statement that is geared to stall what is really going on while the company transitions away from the opposite of what they are claiming.   Everything you mentioned were decisions made because money has been shifting away from the gaming division and Xbox in general than anything else.  You see a decision and believe on the surface its just Phil taking away from you what you enjoy.  I see decisions that look like top brass saying this money sink is over.  If your profits isn't in the same place as our other portfolios than why should we continue to support you.

Anyway, this is one of those wait and see type of situations, but I am willing to bet that what we see going forward is a bigger pull back from the market then those glossy statements from the new CEO.  Its way to familiar and all too common when it comes to big business like MS.  Gaming has been a side project for MS for a while, now its going to be even more so now.