Don Mattrick works at Prostate Centre

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https://www.prostatecentre.com/about-us/people/mr-don-mattrick

A life dedicated to men...

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He doesn't "work" there. Seems he has a Private Equity company that manages bunch of things amongst those a medical center.

Dude is loaded to all hells.
 
I think it's nice. It's kind of weird that in med school there is entire courses dedicated to womens maladies but none for men.
 
With the benefit of hindsight I'd have him back at Xbox in a heartbeat over the current crop.

Good for him for his continued success in life.
 
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I do wonder if he plays games. There's that part of me that thinks he had some passion for games since he made his fortune with them. The other part says it was just a job, a business opportunity he succeeded in. It could go either way with these corporate people. Even the gaming history books said Bobby Kotick didn't play games, but he wanted to fund their development. It's a weird world for sure.
 
The guy ruined Xbox and then moved on to demolish Zynga. I don't think anyone should want him anywhere close to their prostate.
 
Not worse than Mattrick.
I don't know man. While some of his decisions were questionable, he wasn't the one that killed the brand. Xbone did ok-ish. Who knows what would have happened if he had more time on his hands.
 
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I don't know man. While some of his decisions were questionable, he wasn't the one that killed the brand. Xbone did ok-ish. Who knows what would have happened if he had more time on his hands.

Don Matrick pretty much killed the Xbox brand. The presentation of the XBone, the TV focus, the bundled kinect, the hardware specs. He failed miserably on every thing.
That's why he was booted soon after and then MS managed to course correct for the rest of the generation. If he had stayed with MS and kept course, the Xbox brand would be dead by now.
 
That is a VERY huge stretch of logic there. He was at Xbox till 2013. Xbox One released 22.11.2013. He was in charge of the most successful Xbox generation.

360 came out in 2005. Mattrick joined in 2007, spearheaded Kinect, then gave us Xbox One reveal in 2013 whereupon he left in disgrace.
 
Backing and funding prostate cancer research and care is noble. Anyone mocking that today may need prostate treatment in the future. Makes petty plastic box slapfights seem silly.
 
Not worse than Mattrick.
Don has real history in gaming prior to Xbox that he should still garner respect for IMO. Was part of the company that developed the the full 3D games series (rendering on a 80286 PC 1MB with hercules 2 shades to VGA) 4D Sports (Driving, Boxing and Tennis).

Even recently we saw in DF John's retro Saturn faceoff that Atari's Hard Drivin arcade was the one to beat, and yet 4D Sports Driving(Stunts in the US) was out a year and half later on PC with a full on track editor, so his contribution to the early days of the industry should cut him some slack IMO to offset his time at Xbox.
 
Don has real history in gaming prior to Xbox that he should still garner respect for IMO. Was part of the company that developed the the full 3D games series (rendering on a 80286 PC 1MB with hercules 2 shades to VGA) 4D Sports (Driving, Boxing and Tennis).

Even recently we saw in DF John's retro Saturn faceoff that Atari's Hard Drivin arcade was the one to beat, and yet 4D Sports Driving(Stunts in the US) was out a year and half later on PC with a full on track editor, so his contribution to the early days of the industry should cut him some slack IMO to offset his time at Xbox.

That doesn't change the fact that his leadership was a disaster for Xbox.
 
That doesn't change the fact that his leadership was a disaster for Xbox.
But I'd argue his earlier contribution to gaming was more significant than anything that an internal Xbox team has created in house. As it was cutting edge and needed talent to ship those games for the market with the hardware of the time.
 
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