Xbox multimedia exec quits Microsoft, citing company's change in direction

So this is the guy to blame for ruining xbox and making a cable box instead of a game console ? Good riddance !

so is xbox one a gaming console or a tv provider?

one more salary that could pay to someone that actually designs, you know, games?

Someone stole his sandwich from the staff fridge. I *hate* it when that happens.

Any change at MS is a good thing hopefully. Not because of the TV integration, that's fine I don't mind it at all. By all means make the console do as much as you can. But the overall PR and vision at MS can be improved upon.

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My guess is that he was involved in Microsoft's goal of becoming an IPTV provider to compete with cable which may no longer be the case since the Xbox One integrates with existing cable services. That's a bit confusing though since they're still offering video on demand and now getting in to original programming. The Variety article this story links to is about as clear as mud.

I'm glad to hear that Microsoft is finally moving in the right direction. It was a bad idea to include gaming as part of the Xbox One to begin with whereas it served as nothing more than a distraction from the cable box aspect of the console. All the Sony fanboys will finally have to shut up and admit that the Xbox One is the superior cable receiver.

His statement doesn't make any sense if his job was to license TV and Movies for Xbox, since that is what MS is doing with Xbox One, more TV, Sports, and movies.

So Microsoft is changing a game box into a tv box. This guy was one of the people who help destroy the game box with all the media crap. It was his job to do tv & movie stuff. Somehow Microsoft changing the system from a game box to a tv box is the wrong direction for this guys job? So is Microsoft changing a wrong direction into a worse direction?

Sounds like they're moving in the right direction if a guy who cared more about media than games is quitting.

I just tossed my xbone out the window after reading this.

Microsoft is changing so #Dealwithit

Xbox was my favorite console...

The clown car that is MS' XBOX division continues to lose Bozos...

and the bleed away from gaming continues. (singing) soooo glaaaad i weent with Sooonnnyyy this tiiime.

Eddie Trollkuch.

"It has become clear to me that the organization is moving in a direction that does not fit either my expertise or my skill sets," Blair Westlake says" How can it? When MIcroscam makes Xbone into TV and Sports mode.

"...investigate the events surrounding the 1983 burial of millions of copies of Atari's famously unsuccessful E.T. movie tie-in..." -- Ooohh......

Since Microsoft seems to be moving toward more movies and TV, you would think this guy is exactly what Microsoft can use.

"..was instrumental in helping the Xbox platform become a destination for movies and TV, not just games."

So he's the one to be blamed. Grab your torches and pitchforks!!

Microsoft sucks big time and know they want to do something else to try to beat PS4.

they lost a lot Microsoft fans over xbox1 console and name feels like first Xbox ever done loll.

Dat moment of clarity.

"When someone shows you who they are, you better believe 'em..."

I don't know what's been going on behind closed doors at Microsoft...HELL, maybe it's the stuff RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACE (Ed Snowden)...but for a FORMER SEASONED CBS CHAIRMAN/MARKETING EXECUTIVE, (not the janitor) to leave a business because of..."ethics/morals"? Yikes... :o

"It has become clear to me that the organization is moving in a direction that does not fit either my expertise or my skill sets,"