lol Mattrick will never live down that dreadful "we have a product for people without always-on internet, called Xbox 360" moment, an unforced error literally handing Sony an unnecessary win in a devastating public relations blunder, but he did learn to shut his mouth shortly thereafter and undoubtedly did more good for the brand than Spencer ever did.
And he decided to be a condescending cocksucker at literally the worst possible moment, since this was the start of widespread adoption of digital-only libraries, which by their nature force users to lock into a specific ecosystem.
By handing Sony such a massive PR victory, after the debacle the presentation had been, he singlehandedly sealed the fate of XBox as a whole, as MS would never get the chance to catch up.
The only reason they're still in the game, so to speak, is that Sony is run by equally retarded people, that also keep making the same mistake, so a victor between MS and Sony is decided by which company is the least incompetent at that specific moment.
It wasn't even a shitty strategy at first, he just forgot to execute the second part: tard-wrangle the faggots and make them actually produce shit paying customers would actually buy. Fucking stupid people. All of them are failing in exactly the same way and the dogged determination to refuse to understand why is the most entertaining aspect of it to me.
I've said it before in another post, but why in God's name would you buy Obsidian, a company only famous for the quality of their writing, and equally infamous for everything else about their games, without actually checking which writers were working there, and their qualifications?
That should have swiftly clued you onto the fact that all guys that made Obsidian's most famous games had long since left the company, and had been replaced by shitlib women.
A far cheaper alternative would have been to headhunt those guys and build a studio around them, if what you wanted was a prestige cRPG studio.
