Sarah Bond has been promoted to President of Xbox. Matt Booty promoted to President of Xbox Game Content and Studios

[Gamernyc78]

Microsoft reorgs its Xbox and marketing teams to prepare for an AI and gaming future

A big shake-up ready for Activision Blizzard and the future of AI.

www.theverge.com

Sarah Bond will now take over the hardware and software platforms of Xbox. “To manage the platform of today, and build the platform of tomorrow, we are bringing together the teams that will make this possible,” explains Spencer. “Sarah Bond will lead this team as President of Xbox — bringing together Devices, Player & Creator Experiences, Platform Engineering, Strategy, Business Planning, Data & Analytics and Business Development.”

...Booty will now lead an expanded organization inside Microsoft Gaming that includes ZeniMax and Bethesda. “ZeniMax will continue to operate as a limited integration entity led by Jamie Leder, President and CEO, reporting to Matt,” explains Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in an internal memo obtained by The Verge.

 

[Bryank75]

A lot of people were speculating about Sarah Bond.... I had a feeling too.

Looks like Matt Booty is failing upwards. LOL

 

[Entropi]

A lot of people were speculating about Sarah Bond.... I had a feeling too.

Looks like Matt Booty is failing upwards. LOL

Everyone is failing upwards there. I guess their only metric for success is acquisitions.

 

[Zeno]

People building their career solely on acquisitions.

Hardware - failure
Games - failure

I guess at the end money is everything, you can even buy success.

 

[JAHGamer]

Everyone is failing upwards there. I guess their only metric for success is acquisitions.

Acquisitions from money they didn’t even generate themselves

How is Matt booty getting a promotion with the abysmal job he’s done for the last decade? Not a single noteworthy title in all his years. I really feel bad for Bethesda for having to answer to someone so incompetent and who’s never accomplished anything. It’s insulting

 

[Sircaw]

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

TES6 is absolutely fuked now.

GGs TES: 1994- 2014.

It's Joever.

 

[anonpuffs]

lmaooooo

 

[historia]

Wait so Phil gettin shitcanned for Bond?

 

[anonpuffs]

Wait so Phil gettin shitcanned for Bond?

no, phil was promoted to ceo of gaming division a while ago

 

[Entropi]

Acquisitions from money they didn’t even generate themselves

How is Matt booty getting a promotion with the abysmal job he’s done for the last decade? Not a single noteworthy title in all his years. I really feel bad for Bethesda for having to answer to someone so incompetent and who’s never accomplished anything. It’s insulting

Yeah. I’ve always said Xbox is that kid with the rich dad. He’s mediocre at best, never worked hard for a day in his life, but gets ahead of everyone else by nepotism or corruption.

 

[Dr Bass]

All this re-org salad comes across so strange to me. Titles and org charts don't result in quality. It's all the same people who have been failing all these years already ...

Look at all those CEOs and Presidents and Chief whatevers ... and for what?

 

[Gods&Monsters]

All of them failing upward with new sham titles

Booty and Bond in particular. All the failures of the department are hidden behind acquisition revenue. They failed every other metric.

 

[Luffy123]

How the fuck did Matt Booty get there??? They kicked out Pete Hines for this absolute clown

Microsoft is a fucking abomination

 

[KiryuRealty]

Looks like Matt Booty is failing upwards. LOL

Following Phil's footsteps!

 

[KiryuRealty]

All this re-org salad comes across so strange to me. Titles and org charts don't result in quality. It's all the same people who have been failing all these years already ...

Look at all those CEOs and Presidents and Chief whatevers ... and for what?

Something about the Titanic and deck chairs comes to mind here.

 

[JAHGamer]

All of them failing upward with new sham titles

Booty and Bond in particular. All the failures of the department are hidden behind acquisition revenue. They failed every other metric.

To be fair, I’ve heard Sarah is the reason Xbox got Yakuza, Persona, and MLB the Show on Xbox and GamePass. She’s the only one that seems to actually be doing anything so she at least deserves some credit.

 

[KiryuRealty]

To be fair, I’ve heard Sarah is the reason Xbox got Yakuza, Persona, and MLB the Show on Xbox and GamePass. She’s the only one that seems to actually be doing anything so she at least deserves some credit.

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(Jesus, this post is an IQ test it seems. If you think it was meant literally, congrats, you’re an idiot!)

 

[Zzero]

This, or something like it, should have happened as soon as the Beth deal went through. Maybe they thought it was handle-able pre-Acti merger?

 

[JAHGamer]

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