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by drawkbox 4734 days ago
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 launches and Sinofsky is gone. Then Xbox One set to launch and Mattrick goes.
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ekianjo 4734 days ago
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.

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Silhouette 4733 days ago
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.

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ekianjo 4733 days ago
I was talking about the current generation.
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