Ben Lindbergh

There's been a lot of, hey, I'm new here.

I'm learning.

I'm just kind of trying to figure out what we've been doing, which you might think, well, it'd be ideal to do that before you're the boss, I suppose, although Spencer and Bond are sticking around in an advisory capacity for a while to ease the transition.

But

I think there has been a reluctance to scare anyone off any more than they already are.

So there's been a lot of sort of pandering, placating, appeasing.

signaling to various constituencies that we see you or we hear you, as one tweet from Asha Sharma explicitly said.

When someone asked about more exclusives, we hear you.

Well, what does that mean exactly?

Does that mean more exclusives?

Does it not?

We don't know.

And maybe they don't know.

And I think it sounds as if they're trying to sort of serve every audience in ways that sound almost contradictory to me at times, because...

Ashesharmer said, well, we'll recommit to our core Xbox fans and players and we'll celebrate our roots and we'll have a renewed commitment to Xbox starting with console.

But then in the very next paragraph, gaming now lives across devices, not within the limits of any single piece of hardware.

We're going to expand to everything.

We don't want any barriers.

How is it possible for all of those things to be true is what I wonder.

To recommit to the core Xbox fans who want you to make stuff for Xbox and to make Xboxes.