A nongamer leading a console/studio company..... More corporate trash coming our way.
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It's like they sought out the person who would most precisely piss off Asmongold.
If you're offered the job, take it I guess because no one expects you to succeed. If the internal expectations are to focus on the following: Minecraft, CoD, Diablo, WoW, Overwatch, Candy Crush, then maybe this person will excel in that direction. Also all those being video games that found success before Microsoft
Actually trying to make Xbox a success, it's been nearly 13 years of trying to course correct and probably a good amount north of 100 billion dollars and still no strong consistent lineup of new releases. Fable can knock it out the park but that would just be one single player AAA game hit for Xbox after 13 years. So I imagine her expectations are going to be in managing what's proven profitable and winding down what's been proven to be outside of what they're good at
It’s hard to do much worse than Spencer but I’m sure she’ll manage.
She completed Firewatch to 100% on January 20. Titles like What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, and A Short Hike also had higher completion ratings, indicating Sharma may have a preference for emotionally charged narrative games.
I don't know what your takes are, but these are some of the best games in their genres that she completed, I wouldn’t say no to more of that, especially a bigger "A Short Hike" game.
Obviously she's not into bigger gaming timesinks, but different people have different preferences, I'd give her the benefit of doubt, because I don't know much about her managerial skills. And that should matter more about her job than what your free time preferences are.
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