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Gamesbeat caught up with Blackley to extract some wisdom about Microsoft’s journey in games, what he thinks Sharma should do, and where gaming can go next. Part of his message is hopeful, but Blackley sees a lot of peril on the road that Microsoft is following. And it makes him worry about the future of gaming.
"I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night."
LOL
Anyway, let's wait and see maybe Mia Khalifa will surprise us.
I’m on the fence about her. I’ll give her chance, but if she is there to finish things off. Well what can you do.
After seeing the article of the possible sunsetting of Xbox as said by Seamus Blackley I believe, I went onto X because of a post I saw. It was a gif of Vegeta powering up, the poster commented as Vegeta yelling “Don’t take my fiercest competitor away from me.” Standing there in his blue Sayian/Freiza corps outfit. So it got me to thinking, so let me ask a question to N4G.
If Vegeta is PlayStation, who would Xbox and Nintendo be in the Dragon Ball universe?
Who would be Master Roshi?
I have my own opinion of course, I just want to see what others think.
The industry veteran has been tasked with leading the next phase of growth after overseeing the successful launch of Arc Raiders.
It's the dawn of a new era for Xbox. New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma discusses "great games," not tolerating "bad AI" and replacing Phil Spencer.
The only thing I like about Xbox was Sarah Bond and they are trying to scapegoat on her.
It's dead. "return to Xbox" lmao bro Phil was said he wanted games where Gamepass exist. All that changed when he bought ABK. Why? Because Satya said if he had it "his way" he would get rid of exclusives. He's running the show he's been running the show.
She's gonna be a yes woman with zero push back. Matt's with her so that might slow down some of the shit storm of stupid bad decisions. Xbox will fall off a cliff she won't have a clue why, Matt will know but can't do anything about it and Satya will call them failures despite him making bad all the bad decision humanly possible.
I know it wasnt Phil making those bad decisions like canceling Perfect Dark and whatnot... he was being the delivery boy to those teams. The higher ups are the ones wanting results and being impatient. No manner of yes or no person will change that.
@darth: “I know it wasnt Phil making those bad decisions like canceling Perfect Dark and whatnot... he was being the delivery boy to those teams”
Wait wait waaaaaaait a minute ether he he was the savior in CHARGE of Xbox and couldn’t do wrong or he was just a simple delivery boy doing all he could to survive in a world of electronic bikes using a classic bike. 😩
Thats crazy. You are smarter than that. You are saying a decison like that didn't have to go all the way up to the boss? Come on.
Here's the thing...
Obviously, the heads of the gaming divisions of these large corporations answer to a bigger boss. It was pretty clear Phil didn't have too much sway when Mattrick got canned for telling the truth about the new Xbox strategy—Spencer literally did the same thing by turning up the heat slower so the frog (I.e., you, the consumer) didn't notice the boiling happening.
But all that said, Spencer is allegedly this dyed in the wool gamer, received millions in compensation, and stayed on board with the vision, knowing full well what was happening. There's no way he was kept in the dark on matters, and it was clear in his public statements that he knew a lot and tried to be very intentional with his language. If it was for the love of the game, he could have easily called it a day YEARS ago and still had f*** you money.
At the end of the day, he was a suit that wears gamer T-shirts. There was a time when Microsoft was all about getting the gamer persona down. Moore and Mattrick were from the industry in external studios, Spencer was from their own gaming studio.... Then Bond from McKinsey of all places. Now, AI.
We know Microsoft proper is the one making these horrendous decisions, but again, that didn't stop Spencer, and it didn't even give him pause.
So I say he deserves criticism for being a Trojan horse and shepherding Xbox fans. And if you want more evidence of his spinelessness, just remember that he went on TV next to Bobby Kottick and more or less hand waved away his crimes for dear Microsoft's dreams of acquisition.
Even if they did a 180 and tried to go back to consoles, it would be too late. Consumers dont trust them anymore. They’ve pulled the same trick too many times at the beginning of each generation promising the world.
