Ben Lindbergh

Because if you knew anything about Spencer, it was that he was a big gamer.

that everyone could look at what games he was playing and see the enormous numbers of hours, the Matt James-esque tallies that he was putting into certain games.

And that was really a whole generation or multi-generations of the leaders of gaming companies were big gamers who were relating to their audiences on that level, gamer to gamer.

And that seems to have changed.

And I don't know that that's a good thing or a bad thing.

There's been a lot of conversation about Asha Sharma.

She publicized her gamer tag, which was created about a month ago.

And she's not...

going to any lengths to paint herself as more of a gamer than she is, I don't think.

There's been a lot of questioning her gamer cred, which can be a sexist thing often.

But I think by her own admission, she's not a big gamer historically.

She's just dipping her toe in now that she's actually running the business.

It does seem somewhat important to have some level of familiarity with the products that you're releasing.

However, she's not alone in that area.

We had

this whole, you know, at Nintendo, you had Satoru Iwata, you had Reggie Fils-Aimé, who was more of a business background guy, but also did talk a lot about how he grew up playing SNES and he loved Nintendo games.

And at Sony, you had Ken Kutaragi, who designed hardware.

You had Shuhei Yoshida, who's a huge gamer and champion of games.

You had Spencer at Microsoft.

And now you don't have that.