Was Don Mattrick Shown the door at Microsoft?
On May 21st Don Mattrick stood on stage in Redmond, WA and professed to the world that he has never been more excited in his entire career than he was on that day. As President of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft he was responsible for overseeing the Xbox Division and had spent the last four years cultivating one of the most anticipated hardware launches in recent memory. Less than two months later he was out of the company.
The timing of this is just too good to be coincidence. In the month and half between the reveal of the Xbox One and Mattrick’s departure, the Xbox One had one of the most disappointing reveals ever, incited gamer backlash over it’s DRM policy, was embarrassed at E3 by Sony, consistently lost online polls between Xbox One and PS4, lost thousands of fans, and flip-flopped on many of it’s policies that were years in the making.
