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Tom Warren

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
459 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Do you think that's true?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Is there a risk there?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

A few years ago, Nadella thought about spinning off Xbox, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But instead, Phil convinced him to do all these acquisitions and do ABK.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

So he invested, obviously, heavily.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

That's Microsoft's biggest acquisition.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

I don't think shareholders are going to like them just writing off Activision Blizzard, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

That's just...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

I can't see them running into the ground.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

And I think some of the people that have been coming up with this theory, and one of them is obviously an Xbox co-founder, which is interesting.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But I think it's rooted in the idea that Nadella doesn't want hardware, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Which notoriously, Windows Phone, you know,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Don't get me started.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But this time he was there when the Activision deal went down.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But yeah, I can't see them running the console into the ground.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

I think there is a realisation over the past couple of years, the reaction to them putting games on PlayStation and Switch and...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

them really devaluing the console and their core this is their like only remaining consumer brand yep that's that's successful and all right we can't really call it successful right now perhaps i don't know like it's in a weird spot right but it's still a respected brand a known brand across the world whereas windows is in a weird spot surface is pretty much span towards commercial really

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

And yeah, this is the last one.