[Tom Warren] Microsoft Announces Management Changes at Xbox
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LectureMaster
Or is it just one of Adam's balls in my throat?
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CentralScrutinizer
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Not the changes that need to be made.
kpopSuperstar
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Anyone ever hit a fish with your leg as you jump into the water?
ChorizoPicozo
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"Tighten budgets, etc."
The shitshow will never end until Xbox literally disappears.
The shitshow will never end until Xbox literally disappears.
Loomy
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It's the easiest and fastest change they can make - it's also necessary. If they're going to release games that don't make money, Microsoft needs to make cuts to balance things.
$67 Billion dollars. That's the Sword of Damocles hanging over all of ABK and Zenimax right now.
CoD has also been coasting forever with no competition in the military space. Having said that, since the release of Warzone 5 years ago, yearly CoD games has made 0 sense.
ChorizoPicozo
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DeepEnigma
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Angry_Megalodon
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When the finance guys are running the show, you know that next comes a mass deletion of columns in the excel sheet.
DirtInUrEye
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HeisenbergFX4
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Trogdor1123
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That has got to be scary for the folks working there.
It also makes me worry that some of my favorite franchises are in for a rough go….
It also makes me worry that some of my favorite franchises are in for a rough go….
Unknown Soldier
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That was already rumored to be coming Q1 26 anyways. They are just probably putting the right guy in charge to execute what is already coming
Topher
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Are you trolling?
Unfortunatecookie
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Plenty of people respectfully warned the Xbox acquisition cheerleaders that Microsoft -- quite literally the richest company in the history of humanity -- would infect the creativity at any and all companies they acquired because they (Microsoft) are not a charity. A large audience of ignorers -- mostly on Reeeeeeeee -- chose to mislabel valid concerns as "anti-consumer" and "Pro-exclusion".
Those same chirpers are quiet as fuck now. CFO's running anything creative is how you get to a bunch of cancellations, layoffs, GaaS's with zero identity, studio closures, marketing that makes zero sense, price hikes, etc. It's going to get worse for Xbox, count on it.
Gamer_By_Proxy
About to beat off
Phil, Sarah and Booty haven't failed enough lately to be promoted again.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I didn't see any problem with the "organized fan group" supporting the acquisition.
What was disgusting was the moderators of Reeeee, for example, banning anyone who said "I don't know, it could get worse" with the acquisition.
And also the Astroturfing
Because English isn't my first language, in case you haven't noticed.Oh come on, why'd you edit out that edgy-ness
And schadenfreude sums up everything I've said.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Unfortunatecookie
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Topher
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Cyberpunkd
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This. Those two positions are very different. It's like assigning VP Sales as a CTO.
LordCBH
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Instructions unclear. Replaced entire Bethesda division with Copilot Gaming Mode.
Miyazaki’s Slave
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Doubt these will be the last adjustments they make to the leadership team at corporate and at their studios.
If the absolutely giant AI abyss gushing money doesn't dry up soon and MAKE money MS will be brutal in their actions to "right the ship".
If the absolutely giant AI abyss gushing money doesn't dry up soon and MAKE money MS will be brutal in their actions to "right the ship".
archangelmorph
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All of this crap is Phil's fault.
For decades MSFT basically ignored Xbox as nothing more than a balance sheet footnote.
Top level probably didn't even "see it" since the whole division would have been rolled into a "consumer and electronics" subdivision etc, or some such.
Then Phil decided he wanted to be billy big bollocks, and initiate a gigantic fucking acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Now you have the entire Group management team engaged, batting anti trust regulatory concerns to get the deal over the line and a ton more scrutiny on a business they find interesting but generally don't understand (but think they do; textbook management Dunning Kruger).
Now the Group is setting division level goals because reporting visibility is now completely crystal, as it needs to align to M&A portfolio visibility as the Group CFO seeks to make a long term return on the investment, turn the balance sheet asset value upwards and thus make themselves look good to public investors on their earnings calls.
Hence the "Xbox! You lot better get in line with all this AI bullshit! We think your business is too expensive and McKinsey have told us how much we can save from shoehorning AI all over your operations, from that $42.4 report we paid for, that may or may not have been generated on their side by ChatGPT, I'm not sure…"
Hence the "we're not seeing enough commercial focus in driving wider operating margins across these businesses. I don't understand why you can't just fucking slash your cost base by 30% to solve that, and… what? … wait what do you mean that next years sales forecasts are being halved because you now forecast a ~60-70% Metacritic as you no longer have the dev talent and capacity to ship at quality to guarantee a strong product and long tail..? What's a Metacritic? You're using silly words I don't understand, nor care about.. I have no time for managers that just make excuses. I'm just going to bring in a new studio manager and CEO for you from MSFT. Where's that CFO who killed three divisional business lines across MSFT over the last few years and continues to fail upwards? Oh and Doug's intern? They'll do…"
For decades MSFT basically ignored Xbox as nothing more than a balance sheet footnote.
Top level probably didn't even "see it" since the whole division would have been rolled into a "consumer and electronics" subdivision etc, or some such.
Then Phil decided he wanted to be billy big bollocks, and initiate a gigantic fucking acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Now you have the entire Group management team engaged, batting anti trust regulatory concerns to get the deal over the line and a ton more scrutiny on a business they find interesting but generally don't understand (but think they do; textbook management Dunning Kruger).
Now the Group is setting division level goals because reporting visibility is now completely crystal, as it needs to align to M&A portfolio visibility as the Group CFO seeks to make a long term return on the investment, turn the balance sheet asset value upwards and thus make themselves look good to public investors on their earnings calls.
Hence the "Xbox! You lot better get in line with all this AI bullshit! We think your business is too expensive and McKinsey have told us how much we can save from shoehorning AI all over your operations, from that $42.4 report we paid for, that may or may not have been generated on their side by ChatGPT, I'm not sure…"
Hence the "we're not seeing enough commercial focus in driving wider operating margins across these businesses. I don't understand why you can't just fucking slash your cost base by 30% to solve that, and… what? … wait what do you mean that next years sales forecasts are being halved because you now forecast a ~60-70% Metacritic as you no longer have the dev talent and capacity to ship at quality to guarantee a strong product and long tail..? What's a Metacritic? You're using silly words I don't understand, nor care about.. I have no time for managers that just make excuses. I'm just going to bring in a new studio manager and CEO for you from MSFT. Where's that CFO who killed three divisional business lines across MSFT over the last few years and continues to fail upwards? Oh and Doug's intern? They'll do…"
HerjansEagleFeeder
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At this point, you still have favorite franchises in there that aren't in a rough spot, yet? How??
DenchDeckard
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I don't feel so good boss
Artistic
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Gain nothing from that.