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No. In fact, the incompetent people at the head of those projects fail upwards. Take Phil Harrison, who is at the head of Stadia (not Stadia Games and Studios):
by ohgodplsno 4y ago
No. In fact, the incompetent people at the head of those projects fail upwards. Take Phil Harrison, who is at the head of Stadia (not Stadia Games and Studios):
- Worked at Sony Entertainment, handling the software side of things, was there to help for the massive fuckup that was the PS3 launch.
- Got fired (or "resigned" in C-level speak), joined Infogrames (soon to become Atari) and majorly fucked up, saying that single player games would become increasingly rare as well as contributing to running the company into the ground while taking massive dividends.
- Got fired from Atari and joins Gaikai (another game live streaming service that failed miserably and was picked up later by Sony for Playstation Now).
- (Most likely got fired from Gaikai, but no news from this anywhere) and joins Microsoft, just in time to utterly fuck up the Xbox One launch and making the branch he was a director of produce... absolutely fuck all ?
- Got fired from Microsoft and gets named vice president at Google, before heading the Stadia team as a product manager, utterly fucking up its launch, closing down Stadia Games and Studios (that actually managed to build up a pretty talented team), and soon, closing down Stadia.
This clown just gets paid to fail. He's got the reverse Midas touch, short anything he touches.
- robertakarobin 4y agoWe call that a Shit Midas, where everything they touch turns to shit.
- _1 4y agoOr the Mierdas Touch
- cinericius 4y agoOne of the reasons for this is probably that all (minus Stadia, it seems) of the products you've mentioned might have had bad starts but ended up gigantic successes: >PS3 performed extremely well, beating Xbox 360 by a fairly thin margin. >Gaikai sold for $380M USD to Sony (most people consider this a success, even if you think it should have been more.) >Xbox One lost to the PS4 by a factor of two but was still successful (50 million est. lifetime sales) Even if every single thing he was in charge of failed catastrophically, anyone who isn't looking closely is going to see someone with a huge amount of industry expertise working on some of the largest and most successful products to ever exist full stop (not just in gaming.)
- ohgodplsno 4y agoYou'd expect that at this level of responsability and salary, the background check would be more than just a single scroll on his wikipedia page, but then again a clown is pretty much only hired for a circus, half of those taking those decisions have failed upwards themselves too. Everything you mentioned has gotten successful both late in its existence, and very much after Harrison left.
- activitypea 4y agoI don't feel it's fair to say Gaikai failed miserably. They were on par with other competitors such as OnLive. That whole first generation of game streaming created a new market, but was ultimately too early -- the internet infrastructure they were betting on didn't come soon enough to enable their product to take off. At that point, getting acquired by the biggest dog in the gaming industry is the best possible outcome. Phil Harrison is an absolute tool though.
- ohgodplsno 4y agoGaikai failed miserably, the same way OnLive failed miserably. Yes, the infrastructure was not there, but also, the product itself was just not ready. If I start selling prototype home fusion reactors that don't react and I get bought by <big energy company>, it's not a success, the thing literally didn't work.