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Don Mattrick works at Prostate Centre

He did better than phil 🤷‍♂️ everyone blames him for xbox falling off when phils done more damage than he ever did

Do you not realize the extent of Mattrick screwed up? He did irreparable damage to the Xbox brand. Everyone that was around for the XBone reveal and that E3 still trots out the “we have a device for that, Xbox 360” meme, as well as Sony’s game sharing layup like it happened yesterday. He is by far the worst thing that has happened in Xbox history.
 

nemiroff

Gold Member
Do you not realize the extent of Mattrick screwed up? He did irreparable damage to the Xbox brand. Everyone that was around for the XBone reveal and that E3 still trots out the “we have a device for that, Xbox 360” meme, as well as Sony’s game sharing layup like it happened yesterday. He is by far the worst thing that has happened in Xbox history.
Yes, he's literally worse than Hitler!

idk, just trying to mimic the bizarre thread energy..
 
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Yes, he's literally worse than Hitler!

idk, just trying to mimic the bizarre thread energy..

Yeah some weird takes. I’m all for jokes if they’re funny but it’s a thread centered around “haha he work for butthole company bc he butthole” when it doesn’t even make sense nor is it clever. It’s just dumb and inaccurate.
 

Sooner

Member
And that's incredibly respectful.

Yet, I don't get the feeling that was the intention when making this thread.
 

PeteBull

Member
Obligatory gif back from ps4's european launch :)
germans-storm-stores-for-playstation-4-and-leave-xbox-one-sad-and-lonely
 

Sooner

Member
Well, Xbox was better when he was in charge. No, I know what you're thinking. But honestly, it was.
I would have thought everybody would have come to the conclusion by now.

If, somehow, he was still in charge, I believe he would have learned from thier miss-steps with the Xbox One launch and Xbox would have recovered.

Instead, they got reactionary and put the worst possible candidate in charge that has ultimately condemned them to becoming a third-party publisher instead of the market leader as they were during much of the 360 generation.
 
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.
Agreed. Also with Mattrick he believed in building a console base and delivered more games than Phil ever had. Xbox One launched with a pretty good amount of games and he even was on record as saying they wanted to sell 100 million Xbox One consoles. Unlike Phil who has made the console irrelevant and destroyed the brand.
 

Clear

CliffyB's Cock Holster
Funny thing, I worked for EA for awhile back in the early 2000's as I recall word always was that Mattrick was the "nice" guy, and Riccitello was the shark!
 

RagnarokIV

Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
He was the cancer that killed Xbox. He’s out for redemption, this time he’s getting rid of the cancer.
 

xanaum

Member
He was better than Phil Spencer, just had the bad luck of dealing with a crappy team at the start of the Xbox One era, both in marketing and hardware, which also included Phil Spencer. He never got a second chance to rebuild.
 

spons

Gold Member
At least Xbox under Don Mattrick had a bunch of exclusives. I actually just tried to look up which games are completely exclusive to Xbox Series but there don't seem to be any.
 
Even his bio contains an error in the first sentence - they need to delete the additional “is.” Can’t get even basic things right.
 

TheInfamousKira

Reseterror Resettler
Dog, I'm not wearing my glasses and I thought this thread was called "Don Mattick has prostate cancer," and I was like

Who's that?/Fuck....
 

Spukc

always chasing the next thrill
Yeah some weird takes. I’m all for jokes if they’re funny but it’s a thread centered around “haha he work for butthole company bc he butthole” when it doesn’t even make sense nor is it clever. It’s just dumb and inaccurate.
Doo doo
Kaka
 

EDMIX

Writes a lot, says very little
We are shaming people now for life choices? I can assure you ChoosableOne ChoosableOne he has way more money than you.

WTF is this thread?

To be fair, OP doesn't state anything to show they are shaming anyone, they just tell you he is working there now.

So I think many on here are leaping that assumption, I'm just saying...OP's words do not support he is trashing him or shaming him.
 

mrqs

Member
We are shaming people now for life choices? I can assure you ChoosableOne ChoosableOne he has way more money than you.

WTF is this thread?

Some people here can be utterly despicable. Good for him that he's working in the board of directors at a place like that.

Also, we all sometimes fail hard at some extremely dumb tasks on our low-stakes jobs. If making a bad decision should make someone unemployed forever, no one here should have jobs.
 
I always loved that when he was in power, how xbox fans fellated him on his every move and then when he left he was then magically the reason for all issues.

Same thing will play out again when Phil leaves. The xbox fans that look at him as gaming jesus will fucking turn on him overnight.

You can time a clock to it.
 
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Alan Wake

Member
Agreed. Also with Mattrick he believed in building a console base and delivered more games than Phil ever had. Xbox One launched with a pretty good amount of games and he even was on record as saying they wanted to sell 100 million Xbox One consoles. Unlike Phil who has made the console irrelevant and destroyed the brand.

One failure led to another, though. I think they're both responsible for the Xbox One fiasco, and that goes for a lot of other senior people as well. Mattrick has been blamed entirely for what happened, while everyone else escaped. Yes, he was in charge, but I can't believe no one else in the team agreed that this was the path they should take.
 
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