Microsoft's game business head promoted

I posted my last comment to see how people would rate it. Oh well.

I wonder if this guy is willing to give up millions too? LOL

@edenproxy and Mass Effect 2, and Alan Wake, and tons of epic downloadable stuff, and stuff coming out around like christmas like Fable 3. Granted, PS3 got stuff like Heavy Rain and Mag is pretty cool from what I hear (never played it). Besides, don't feed the trolls, it means they win

@EdenProxy Xbox 360 Slim -_- growing Xbox Live Gold Membership still winning the console war again st PS3 comfortably MS actually have been kicking butt this year.

@monson21502 Kicking butt? All 360 has had this year is halo reach. This is by far the worst year for the 360.

I wish they'd get Seamus Blackley and Peter Moore back. I miss the Microsoft of 2001-2004. The company's gaming division seemed to be really responsive and gamer-oriented back then.

@ howie1926 4 million in stock option is not the same as 4 million cash. 4 million stock option means he can spend up to 4 million dollars to buy stocks at a set (presumably lower) price than the current market value. GIven the recent market crash however, it is likely that the lock-invalue is HIGHER than the current market value (meaning he can't make any money from stock-option).

Well I guess someone finally realized that money is not everything. Enjoy retirement Bach!!

Cant they just hire the Cole Train instead?

Bach has a pretty crummy work ethic, but I love his music.

Bach seems pretty humble person since I heard him talk before at the school I was going to at the time. He was pretty worn out already at the time since he was there for the first xbox. But congrats to the new guy!

Hey Donnie boy, crank out some more sweet games, would ya?

"head" LOL I just had a Bevis and Butthead moment. :D

well the 360 has been kicking butt the last few months. so the dude must be doing something right

I concur Blackace.

When i see the name microsoft i imagine lots of money!

Congradulations Don Mattrick.

@savior24 - when you're loaded, $4.2 million is chump change.

To those of you saying that you wouldn't retire early: tell me, what would you do with that extra 4.2 million? Besides, he already has god knows how much in his bank account. He probably could have retired much earlier than this, but I see a lot of people these days have some stupid fascination with having so much money that they don't even know what to do with it.

Robbie Bach must have had some family issues or something that would have required his time to give up so much. It's interesting to see a high level executive give up so much to retire as well.

I'm sorry, but there's NO way I would give up that much cash just to retire early; NO WAY!!!!!

I would have stayed to collect that cash. He's probably have $30million or more rolling around in his bank account anywas. Now he can start enjoying life. Don needs to get the games kicked into high gear. They should have never let Ed Fries leave. He was the one who spearheaded all those great exclusive games on the original XBox. When he left, all the exclusives we were get left as well. It's nice they have some exclusives in Japan, but we need a ton of exclusive here in America.

Thats a lot of cash

i kinda enjoy watching mattrick do his stage presentations, always kinda awkward.

that's a ton of money to lose