>convince management to sign off a $70 BILLION buyout even though he definitely knew that there is no way they would recoup their investment from xbox/game pass sales aloneIn hindsight, this guy was way more incompetent than Mattrick.
and yet probably still got paid millions a year and will go on to the next company to do the same. who's the real moron here.
>>724220491You niggas say the most retarded shit,MICROSOFT bought Activision it had nothing to do with Xbox
>>724220491I think he genuinely believed that giving away cod for free would pump gamepass subs to the moon. It was a hail mary because he knew Xbox was getting shut down either way
Why do most CEOs look like genuine lizard skinwalkers
>>724222183we used to have big box stores like bestbuy/gamestop deciding what you could buy and at what price. In a digital world you can skip past them and gamepass was a way to continue picking winners and losers. It by default boosted attention on certain games that they wanted sold.You have to remember that the alternative was to capitulate to the flood of indie games and the devaluation of games as a whole.
>>724223542Instead they chose to shift the devaluation into overdrive to control the entire market. What they were attempting was disgusting but made business sense. They didn't account for the fact that people have backlogs that are better than their entire subscription library and 5 dollar decade old AAA games are still better than new 80 dollar releases.What is killing MS and the entire AAA industry is a total lack of innovation on the hardware side. Had they fully shifted to VR they would no longer be competing with a gigantic backlog of higher quality cheap releases.
>>724220491>kills Xboxyeah I'm thinking he's based
>>724223935>VRCome on now.
>>724220491I hope the AI bubble bursts and wipes 70% off Microsoft's value.
>>724220491He looks like the guy from summer time saga
>>724226005Microsoft's value isn't in AI
i genuinely do not understand how he got away with destroying the entire xbox brandhow did he do it? did he blackmail someone?this man is living proof that a C-suite executive is just another bullshit job
>>724225869Killing a console is only based when it's because competition is that much better. When it's just a race to the bottom and one retard pulls ahead of the others, it's just shit for the customers.
>>724226238You say that like MS wouldn't want Xbox gone due to it's cultural baggage. This is all deliberate.
>>724226379>cultural baggagewhat, you mean they didn't want respect?
