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Why does the Xbox fandom blame “Don Mattrick” for the brand’s State?
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Date: July 1st, 2026 8:15 AM Author: Titillating mauve crackhouse Xbox 360 RROD is the root cause. If a Console maker can’t produce reliable hardware, people are going to look for a reason to get the competitor Console.
Blaming Mattrick is like blaming Lee Iacocca for Detroit losing the gen. Japanese Supervision, champ. |
Date: July 1st, 2026 8:32 AM Author: Swashbuckling Rehab They are just ahead of their time. They were trying to bring the Future with Xbox One and didn’t expect the pushback about “always online” and physical media. To this day there are still Losers crying about no physical media releases of games even though there is no real benefit of having it on disk. Most won’t even fit on a disk. It’s not a 4K UHD (of which I have an impressive collection of juuuuuuust sayin’) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878867&forum_id=2#49973108) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 11:02 AM Author: Titillating mauve crackhouse Discs kind of suck. How do you never ever ever scratch them ever? Sometimes they have scratches for No Reason. MULTIPLE times, I’ve opened a brand new disc game for the very first time, and it wasn’t in the Holder securely. Loose in the case.
It seems like Console gamers lack Engineering Awareness. Modern consoles have SSDs. SSDs mean faster loading. Install the game on the SSD. If it loads from the disc, it’s slower than the SSD. Many AAA Titles don’t even fit on a Disc btw.
If you care about Preservation, then join the chorus who Hate Exclusives and want everything on PC. If a game is on PC, it’s Preserved imho. |
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Date: July 2nd, 2026 4:29 PM Author: Swashbuckling Rehab Your Sony peers are really crashing out about this, sad! (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878867&forum_id=2#49975830) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 11:04 AM Author: Fucking Fuckface Look at what Mattrick left to do and how it went
He was in a position to stave off the destruction of gaming, and instead he leaned into the destruction. Dude doesn't get skewered nearly enough |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 11:08 AM Author: Titillating mauve crackhouse That’s not fair. No one who “leaves” to do anything succeeds. Every somewhat successful thing is lightning in a bottle.
Anyway imho Mattrick’s ignominious story has been told. The 100% failure rate of Xbox 360 has sort of been forgotten somewhat. It’s the same story people experienced with ruinous American Cars and switching to Japanese.
Also, 360 sales figures were inflated by replacements bc of RROD imho. The drop experienced in the XB1 Gen wasn’t stark as it looked imo. |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 11:34 AM Author: Fucking Fuckface What? Plenty of people who leave to do something else succeed. This is true in business (Musk changing focus and companies in multiple occasions resulted in ever-growing success for himself) and true in athletics (many people win championships by leaving)
Mattrick left to focus on a fucking sub-mobile level of gaming. Just the shittiest, worst type of gaming with monetized garbage even worse than mobile. And he couldn't succeed (thank god, some might say)
Fuck that guy
But CR on the RROD and other shit |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:05 PM Author: Titillating mauve crackhouse It almost never happens in gaming. There are graveyards of Wikipedia articles of devs who left to start their own Firm. More than I can possibly remember. Also most execs are frauds and Gen X is Gen X. I realize Mattrick sucked but “always online” is not a big deal on its own. It gave people the reason they were looking for to not get it. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878867&forum_id=2#49973565) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:36 PM Author: ivory newt feces I was a huge xboxmo, I had 2 of the OG ones (one got banned from xbox live cause I had a mod chip) and a bucnh of 3s60. I didn't care about the reds ring of death, ps3 had the same issues. And they replaced them for free. I didn't buy xbone cause it was an underpowered piece of shit and the kinect gimmick was retarded af. It was a Soulless Corporate Console (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878867&forum_id=2#49973618) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 9:07 PM Author: Titillating mauve crackhouse Thought on the prospects of State of Decay 3? It has “State of” in the title which is a huge phrase with Gamers. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878867&forum_id=2#49974872) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 10:30 PM Author: ivory newt feces Never heard of it I don't fuck w/ western "games" (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878867&forum_id=2#49974998) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 10:33 PM Author: Titillating mauve crackhouse me neither usually (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878867&forum_id=2#49975005) |