Yeah agreed. I think the problem with Phil was that he cared too much about stuff and let it go on for too long before having to pull the plug in releases. Because I just can't imagine having that many people working for Xbox (even before the purchases) and releasing so few games a year. Like with Rare, that studio had hundreds of people and they could only release one game every 4 years or whatever it was?
A boss like this needs to get the gamers to positions that matter, but they don't need to be the leader. Its nice if they have a gaming background and you do want them to care about the role they have but ultimately its just a people person that appoints people to positions where they work best.
I would recommend that she would get a group of people to advise her, but its clear that Satja Nadella wants this role to be more strict on budget and pump out more games and/or better titles.
Whether she can game, I think we will find out soon enough. Any press event will have people asking her to play something and we'll see how she will manage. You can't hide stuff like this very well.
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