Ben Lindbergh

And how do you square that with the idea that everything should be multi-platform?

So I don't know.

And I don't know that they have an answer.

And we will continue to monitor not just the words, as you said, Matt, but the actual substantive decisions, because that's ultimately what matters.

Hey, we've got Gears of War again.

We've got

It wouldn't hurt, would it?

Fables coming, forces coming.

Microsoft has made a lot of games lately, and a lot of good games.

And they've really ramped up their production, as you would expect, given that they've acquired a large portion of the industry.

But that has not really led to exclusives by design.

And so as someone who's owned every Xbox console...

other than professional obligation, I don't know that there is a strong proposition out there right now for the next Xbox hardware.

Why do I need to buy that?

And we'll see whether there actually is a next Xbox hardware, whether that's just a branded version, whether there is a recommitment to exclusives.

That's all very up in the air.

Fortunately,

There's no RAM on planet Earth anymore, so we won't actually have to figure out who's making which consoles when until 2029.

My last observation is that the retirement and departure of Spencer...

at least the departure from Xbox, does seem like the end of an era, not just for him and for Microsoft, but really for gaming executives and the public faces of gaming companies as a whole.