No need to pity him. I'm certain he has and earns more money than everyone who posted in this thread and counting and if he wanted to do better he could just try and listen. He doesn't care and he is a bean counting sucker.
I think all these threads are ridiculous to a fault, as, if you can't do anything about it why bother. But it's true that he just doesn't get it and will probably shield himself with people who are the same as him. And it might just go well, I mean look at Tim Cook at apple, dude has zero vision, zero charisma and runs the company like he is playing age of empires on easy. But it still prints money even if most of the time they're effectively ripping someone off.
Well, that's what people are reacting to.
EA strategy works because of yearly sports titles, but I can't think of something really good they published this generation without massive caveats like micro-transactions everywhere as they are focusing too much on money. I'm not sure it's a good position for a console manufacturer to be and it'll only get worse with time - it also doesn't have anything to do with vision. He will also ouster a lot of people from it's platform, just like EA did (at several points, EA actually had creators working for them), current EA is a conveyor belt, not somewhere you go to make a game with heart. A platform holder needs those titles to drive sales, not FIFA/Madden, and so on.
THAT SAID, he is not going anywhere soon, even if he was mismanaging the company (and financially he isn't, so what we are talking about while real is abstract and can't be easily put into words for investors and the like) gaming is seeing growth because of the pandemic. He either retires before next gen, or has to screw the PS6 launch.
AND, to be honest a few months ago Microsoft needed all the help they could get to get this generation underway for them. If this helps in the direction of a 50:50 marketshare between the both I think that's positive.
Great post by the way, I enjoyed reading it.
