If you work for a company, you will do what the company vision is.
Don matrick focused on TV part, so the entire management had to do, what he wanted.
That is what you need to understand.
Employees cant go against that. Phil cant go around, and buy studios, if the main boss wish is, to focus solely on tv part.
So his vision was to shit on studios ? Stop with the bulshit just admit you don't want to see the shit he did.You have literaly nothing beside "visions" which doesn't mean anything.You have nothing but that pathetic excuse that Matric was to blame for Phil doing a bad job.But if you want to keep that bulshit excuse OK be ready, I will have some question that will outline the flaws in your scenario.
First do you think that branches always ask money to corporate and don't work wihtin a set budget.
Second that budget needs to be negociated branch by branch, if a branch doesn't have any money it either doesn't need it or the manager did a bad pitch/presentation of the operating and or expanding cost, otherwise Phil's job.
Third do you honestly and naively believe that those "VISIONS" are the realisation of one person ?Not for a company like MS it's board meetings and talks with counselors, market consulting etc...Even by then it was not exactly just mattrick's vision.
Fourth do you really think everybody knew it was a bad decision and weren't full on with it?Because you claim that it wasn't Phil's vision but you can't know that.You will of course say that his vision now is different but you can't absolutely know what it was then.And even better you forgot that the backlash happenned and change all that "VISION" and probably the one of everyone involved in (Phil Spencer included).
Fifth "VISIONS" don't pay check and managing is way more than just considering the global direction of a branch it is concrete decisions done by?You guessed it branch manager.
And Sixth tell me how a vision came to closing studio, who closes them and why since under Mattrick they kept increasing the budget for games, how increasing the budget is a proof that Phil couldn't do anything with the studios Xbox had?
Now you will craft a little story based on nothing except your unconditionnal love for Phil.
So please next time just admit your bias and move on instead of wasting people's time to show you how weak, full of holes and franckly dumb your whole argumentation is.
Now have a great day or night wherever you live and please refrain from talking to me next time you feel the need to.I have no problem talking to fanboys of any side as long as they are coherent and have to capacity of at least listenning.You are not part of it and talking to you brings nothing but insults and moot points and those kind of individuals are only good for my ignore list.