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Don Mattrick works at Prostate Centre
- Thread starter ChoosableOne
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Cyberpunkd
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We are shaming people now for life choices? I can assure you
ChoosableOne
he has way more money than you.
WTF is this thread?
ChoosableOne
he has way more money than you.WTF is this thread?
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
That’s what happens when you secure 3rd party deals people care about.
LazyParrot
Member
He's on the board of directors, so it's more like Prostate Center works for him.
Moriarty1889
Member
Don Mattrick has been swimming in money for a very long time now. He is beyond successful.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
He's a Doctor IRL ?
Schmendrick
Member
Wtf is that value metric....We are shaming people now for life choices? I can assure you
WTF is this thread?
So Putin is fine because he has more money than anyone here? Assad? Xi?....
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Skifi28
Member
Thank god we have Phil making the right decisions.
winjer
Gold Member
Not worse than Mattrick.
U n i o n 0015
Member
He's on the board, which is really common for former CEOs and other execs.
Cyberpunkd
Member
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.
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Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Well, he always wanted his fingers up people's arses.
What is the value metric to laugh at someone who works at prostate centre? Besides he isn't even "working" there
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Nonehxc
Member
Not the kind of Doctor you're thinking. But an Honorary Doctorate, yes. Usually these are given for having good relations and dropping cash on it.
killatopak
Member
Always Online prostate checkup.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
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.
Sebastian1295
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SweetTooth
Gold Member
He was way better than current Leadership at MS, more successful too
Schmendrick
Member
Learn to read...So we're comparing don mattrick to freaking putin?????? Come on man do better.
Skifi28
Member
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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darrylgorn
Member
Must. not. make. the. dick. joke.
winjer
Gold Member
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.
BlackTron
Member
360 came out in 2005. Mattrick joined in 2007, spearheaded Kinect, then gave us Xbox One reveal in 2013 whereupon he left in disgrace.
LordOfChaos
Member
Oh man I read that as he had prostate cancer as first
This is a valid thing to do, cool
This is a valid thing to do, cool
Astray
Member
Trashing a guy for being on the board of a non-profit with noble aims.We are shaming people now for life choices? I can assure you
WTF is this thread?
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
It's funny that the current Xbox leadership is so impotent that people fondly remember Don Mattrick lol.
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
I didn't share it to trash him; as the other user said, he has more money than me, so I can't trash him. I just shared it because I found his career journey interesting.
nikolino840
Member
A job is a job
SimTourist
Member
If Don had it his way you would need a prostate check every 24 hours
Goalus
Member
And Stunts aka 4D Sports Driving.
PaintTinJr
Member
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.
noob smokes
Member
He did better than phil 
everyone blames him for xbox falling off when phils done more damage than he ever did
everyone blames him for xbox falling off when phils done more damage than he ever did
winjer
Gold Member
That doesn't change the fact that his leadership was a disaster for Xbox.
It's been more than 10 years from the Xbone reveal, he can't keep getting blamed for Uncle Phil decisions anymore...
PaintTinJr
Member
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.
