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Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO

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Post by ekianjo » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 5:06 AM UTC

drawkbox wrote: post #27

JL2010 wrote: post #21

One thing that has gotten lost in the noise of Xbox One's marketing mishap and the targeting of Mattrick is perhaps his history as a true entrepreneur. While it hasn't shown so lately, Don does come from a grassroots background in gaming as a former 17 year old co-founder and programmer of Distinctive Software in 1982. His company was acquired by EA which likely put him on the path to executive level success. A kind…

Mattrick has quite a nice background and he was a developer early on who worked on some fun titles, loads of credits at MobyGames ( http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,15... ) mostly as an executive now. He was at EA for a long time. Headed up the Kinect effort. I wonder if packaging it with XBone (pricing) and the recent PR and backsliding was part of this. This is strange though, Windows 8 lau…

It's not like their PR campaigns went well in both cases, did they? Windows 8 still fails to impress, and Mattrick was one of the backers of the "repeated online checks" that was cancelled by Microsoft recently following Internet/gamers pressure.

I am far from impressed by Mattrick's legacy within Microsoft. He clearly failed to differentiate their offering vs Sony.

Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO

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Post by drivebyacct2 » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 8:35 AM UTC

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #30

pharrington wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fully disclosed reddit circle-jerk of misinformation I'll post this again, from an interview taken on June 10th. [Phil] Spencer: But we're also trying to launch and we understand feature sets. We've got partners and publishers [we] want to talk to about how lending is going to work. We don't dictate pricing to our partners on our platform. We want to give them capabilities to support content and business models that…

That whole article that you link to is about the Share with 10 Family Members feature, leading me to conclude that "lending" in that sentence is explicitly physical lending and... you know... from the context directly around it, reselling used games. >Xbox One will enable new forms of access for families. Up to ten members of your family can log in and play from your shared games library on any Xbox One. That's a con…

I get downvoted because I CITE Microsoft's feature set? Just because the Internet got pissed off and didn't pay attention until after the fact doesn't make it less true. Insanity.

Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO

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Post by Silhouette » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 12:57 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #41

drawkbox wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mattrick has quite a nice background and he was a developer early on who worked on some fun titles, loads of credits at MobyGames ( http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,15... ) mostly as an executive now. He was at EA for a long time. Headed up the Kinect effort. I wonder if packaging it with XBone (pricing) and the recent PR and backsliding was part of this. This is strange though, Windows 8 lau…

It's not like their PR campaigns went well in both cases, did they? Windows 8 still fails to impress, and Mattrick was one of the backers of the "repeated online checks" that was cancelled by Microsoft recently following Internet/gamers pressure. I am far from impressed by Mattrick's legacy within Microsoft. He clearly failed to differentiate their offering vs Sony.

He clearly failed to differentiate their offering vs Sony.

It seems that the market has very clearly differentiated Microsoft's offering from Sony's, but for all the wrong reasons from Microsoft's perspective.

Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO

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Post by ekianjo » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

Silhouette wrote: post #43

ekianjo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not like their PR campaigns went well in both cases, did they? Windows 8 still fails to impress, and Mattrick was one of the backers of the "repeated online checks" that was cancelled by Microsoft recently following Internet/gamers pressure. I am far from impressed by Mattrick's legacy within Microsoft. He clearly failed to differentiate their offering vs Sony.

He clearly failed to differentiate their offering vs Sony. It seems that the market has very clearly differentiated Microsoft's offering from Sony's, but for all the wrong reasons from Microsoft's perspective.

I was talking about the current generation.