"Fools lots of people"
"Deeply dishonest"
Lol, good one.
It seems pretty clear they're giving the fans what they want which is investment in "core" games and there are plenty of them. Other good moves like backwards compatibility help plus the executives and studios management are a lot more active in talking to and listening to what fans actually want them to do.
Theres nothing to "desperately" believe in, the plan seems pretty clear and a lot of people are very happy with that.
Probably the Xbox part of his title
They've announced a lot of exciting new games, reversed the stupid decisions they made at the beginning, have a good communication with fans. Now presumably you're talking about a sales factor well, it will take them longer to solve that based on where they started but Peter Moore seems to think he/they are saving the brand.
You must not have been paying much attention in 2013 if you don't think they are working towards that, in my opinion.