Xbox One Boss Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft for Zynga
Don Mattrick is leaving Microsoft to pursue opportunities at Zynga.
Sources close to All Things Digital have reported that head of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment division Don Mattrick will be departing his role at the corporation for a key leadership position at Zynga. The news is now official thanks a Steve Ballmer memo.
Mattrick’s move to Zynga is huge. Currently, the company has been struggling to make the transition away from Facebook games into the mobile space. Just last month, Zynga shut down a number of its offices. OMGPOP, the developers behind the short-lived mobile game Draw Something, was among them. Mattrick may be a key part of helping give Zynga the momentum it needs to make the push it needs to get into the mobile space.
On Microsoft’s end, Mattrick’s departure could be interpreted as a result of the highly negative feedback the company’s received about the Xbox One and its online DRM policy. Although Microsoft has since reversed its position on such policies, there’s still the issue that the console is launching at a price point that’s $100 higher than its chief competitor, and the price difference is largely attributed to the Kinect that comes bundled with every Xbox One.

it can see everyone in the room, so the first thing it does is asks you to pay more for a movie because to many people are watching it, hell it could just shut off if it sees one to many people
you cant use the system without kinect installed and on, though i dont know if it has to see you to let you play a game.
personally with prism i'm surprised that anyone wants it.
Unlike thefiend1 I'm a scifi nerd and want to be able to talk to my electronics just like in Star Trek. Computer, read me the subject lines of all my unread emails. Computer, wake me up in an hour. Computer play Beethoven Symphony Number 5. The possibilities are endless!
ok, lets look at this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArpWuV_zvo
its an angry joe video, but it shows what the kinect is really like
the only thing the kinect was good for was exaggerated movements, like lets dance,
any game that was core, scored horribly if it only used kinect, and if had kinect it was a tacked on feature.
what part of kinect made anyone thing "oh, this will be great for gaming"
i mean either i'm being trolled by people who are doing a good job here, or i should be depressed for the next next generation of gaming.
Unlike thefiend1 I'm a scifi nerd and want to be able to talk to my electronics just like in Star Trek. Computer, read me the subject lines of all my unread emails. Computer, wake me up in an hour. Computer play Beethoven Symphony Number 5. The possibilities are endless!
Me too, but the thing is a $15 headseat (which I already have) would let me yell "Fus Ro Dah" instead of using the button. Besides, even if I did want Kinect (which I don't, devs just use it like a headset mic you don't have to wear in real games. see ME3, Skyrim, etc), I still want the option to pick it up at a later date once my personal "killer app" comes out with Kinect support. Making me buy, and God forbid, forcing me to attach something I don't want for an extra $100 is the reason I'll be getting a PS4 long before an Xbox One Eighty.
Precisely! Sony also had the same DRM policy just like the one that MS started with, but changed it just before the show. While a good marketing move and all, I don't think that it is a good idea. Without the ps4 eye, the motion thing on the controler is useless, and developers can't use it without limiting the potentian costumer a LOT. Also, I liked the DRM policy that MS showed off, it is really easy to handle (like Steam for the console), and it is the way that technology is heading. The "fantastic" no DRM policy is old, limiting, and I dont like discs!
You can not like discs all you want, but it's still faster than a four hour download of 10+ gigs of crap over normal home broadband. I have 12/1.5 Mbps cable and games on Steam are still mostly next-day playable unless I start them and go to work.
It wasn't like Steam for console, and furthermore:
In what way? The digital/cloud MS policy was much more limiting. In fact, they spent most of E3 explaining what you couldn't do with it. It did nothing worthwhile for you that you couldn't do with discs. Lets not forget that you can still by games digitally through the Xbox marketplace. If I didn't have a copy of Halo 4 I could get one through the 'net without having to go anywhere. Right now, on the 360. MS wasn't giving us anything we don't already have, but they were going to prohibit several things that were very useful to at least some of us.
The titanic did sink, didnt it?