Nilay Patel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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She's got a corporate operator background.
She's been at the big companies.
She's run big projects.
She's faced the pressure.
She's handled it professionally.
But she's not a gamer.
Phil very famously is a gamer.
I would point out that Nintendo is not run by gamers.
Sony is not run by gamers.
They're actually arguably more successful.
Maybe this is actually the thing you need.
Distance from this audience.
What do you think she's going to do with this strategy now?
Also, Phil's been there the entire time.
How do you return to the thing the guy who made it?
Let me ask you this big, big question.
You've done a lot of reporting over the last year and a half about this new console and it being a PC and this strategy and whether or not it's organized or disorganized.
I think what I'm hearing you say is she's going to execute it, right?
Like there's execution problems here.
Maybe the company did not trust Sarah Bond to execute the strategy after Phil left.