lol Don was actually on the short list to be promoted..... but I guess you guys are right he should have been fired or has been or whatever rocks your boat.... I'm not gonna argue... arguing for MS here is too risky.... I loled at Sony being a likable company though, so much liked if they keep the current track record they'll be the new Kodak....

*ducks under a rock*

like what? DRM? always online? forced kinect? archaic "used" game systems? I think they all received the appropiate responses.

beside DRM the rest is pretty minor in my opinion... used game wasn't dead it was limited to specific retailers which represent more than 90% of the market anyway.... forced kinect is quiet lame IMO nothing is really forced.... people are just being mad it is 100 more it be the same price they wouldn't care about kinect.... and the NSA mess wouldn't be top news right now the unplug part would be irrelevant..... and the always online would have sucked for some but it is still a minority looking at how many XBL gold there are.... and the armed force excuse please..... don't they have better things to do than frag more people ingame while being on tax payers pay roll ???? and nobody asked them to enlist in the first place..... I have nothing against the troops and support them... but this being a valid point come on.... and why not a solar powered SKU also because some people live in remote areas in poor countries and don't have in house power.....

Yeah, because a company that's doing extremely well instead right now would need to hire new help... 

They wouldn't.

Dunno about that i do know MS are having a management reshuffle and it would of been quite easy for them to say your role is now redundant, you might want to start looking elsewhere. He really could not of done a worse job over seeing the Xbox One launch and policies. 

I don't get why people are upset in here about HappyD mentioning Jack Tretton. It's a comparison, this happens all the time on VGC.

Still, I think Don clearly won the "I am a Douche" Award.

yet every financial reported him as being on the short list to be promoted in that shuffle.... the couple millions of angry gamers post E3 that are a huge minority even if they like to think otherwise did not change that..... but hey who am I kidding... everybody outside of the financial world hates him no matter what.... it reminds me the MS hatred during Gates era, every geek hated the guy yet he was probably one of the best CEO.... regular people perception for that kind of position is quiet irrelevant.... hard cold financial data is all that matters....

key word here being "opinion", which you are in the minority. Obviously alot of people were upset enough, otherwise they wouldnt have done a 180

not a lot of people since there isn't a lot of people already aware of anything about PS4 or XB1 do you really think the 100millions of gamers out there are all like us following game news 5month prior launch.... people are mostly not that involved... the main reason they turned around was a combination of things but mostly gamestop blocking pre sales which meant a huge hit on there launch.... their partnership with retail is more valuable than any bitching from the tiny hardcore game news followers.... that's the main reason we will not see any more changes even if people are still bitching at other things like kinect.....

@1stpara. I respect your opinion but I don't share it. I understand your points about clarity being needed, but I stand by my point that I'm not sure the games were ready to support all the functions that were out of the box for the one as part of a long-term vision. You're free to disagree.

@2ndpara. My point was secrecy. Whether for functions or games, some companies do employ secrecy prior to launch, it's not atypical.

Agree to disagree Oni.