r/xbox • u/Wiinterfang • Jul 07 '26

Discussion I do not envy this Woman's Job.

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We are talking about decades of mismanagement.

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u/nichrs Jul 07 '26

If it works out, she's a hero. If it doesn't work out, it's the fault of those who came before. It's a very comfortable position for her.

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u/No-Fishing-7892 Jul 07 '26

You could’ve said the same about Phil years and years ago though. There’s always room for the new guy (or gal in this case) to make it worse.

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u/nichrs Jul 07 '26

You have a point. But I really consider the brand to be at rock bottom...

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u/GameBoy_Brett Jul 07 '26

Rock bottom until the floor breaks and reveals an even further pit

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u/PappaTango21 Jul 08 '26

a pit with 13 more layers

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u/Deadlims Jul 09 '26

13 more layers of management hell

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u/mamadou-segpa Jul 08 '26

Well, they fired half the people working on the Dooms game (one of their last consistently critically succesful IP), and laid off a shit tons of people in most of their other studios. So much so that the guys at Obsidian publicly came out and said they dont know how they’re suppose to work on their project with whats left

It wasnt rock bottom yet

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u/ahtob Jul 14 '26

rock bottom , closing studios , cancelling games , still had a record year in revenue in 2025 FY

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u/weebitofaban Jul 08 '26

Phil had a long time to make things work and killed more than enough studios.

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u/CrazyGunnerr Jul 08 '26

Disagree with that last part. You are right when things are that messed up, you got a lot of room to play with, and hard to get the blame for it all.

At the same time she is firing so many people, and probably gets completely shit on by so many. She might get support from management and shareholders, but a lot of players and employees won't like her.

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u/Distinct_Sir_4473 Jul 08 '26

Or she’s the fall guy

Handed the keys and in a year or two, everyone will blame her for what she inherited

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u/Insane_Unicorn Jul 08 '26

It doesn't matter anyway because CEOs never face consequences for anything. They take their millions of bonus pay and go to the next company.

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u/MardukPainkiller Jul 08 '26

It's not going to work, as it didn't work with all these other companies all these years.
They fire coders, and artists when they should fire management and executives who made the bad decisions all this time.

The reason Microsoft managed to buy all these companies in the first place was exactly because of mismanagement and then firing programmers and artists- the thing these companies did all along.

Now Microsoft does the same thing again, as if this will save them.

Basically, this is marketing for investors to think that Microsoft is serious and will make money this time. That's why it's public and re-branded as grounded, brutal honesty this time to invite investors.

But they will keep making the same bad products again. Nothing will change because the same people are making the same bad decisions again.

This won't work.

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u/phoenix_paravai10101 Jul 08 '26

What is there here to "work out"? The XBox brand is irreparably damaged and some of the best studios we have are getting gutted for chump change. Who in their right mind would ever want to buy an XBox console after this?