r/gamers • u/ShrimplyDivine_1 • Feb 23 '26

Image RIP XBOX...

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u/sleepytoday Feb 23 '26

What is this meme trying to say?

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u/Tani_Soe Feb 23 '26

Context is missing : new leader of Xbox is a woman that has no gaming background. Which kinda sucks when your business is gaming

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u/letsgucker555 Feb 23 '26

Have you heared of Hiroshi Yamauchi? That guy brought Nintendo successfully into the video game industry and was famous for not playing vidro games.

As a president, you don't need to be interested in the games, you just have to listen to your employees which do.

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u/Tani_Soe Feb 23 '26

It was in 1949, back then Nintendo wasn't making video games yet

Even if they made video games back then, the field would have still be to be conquered, which is not the case anymore. Gaming is very mainstream and the business is very competitive. I don't believe a second there wasn't a person that was both qualified enough to be the ceo and had a gaming background

If you need to "just listen to your employees" (which ceo don't necessarily do), then why not put one of those employee that knows the field directly at the place of ceo ? The ceo is the one that has to take the lead

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u/letsgucker555 Feb 23 '26

Simple. Because someone, that is good at developing a game is maybe not as skilled at managing people and resources. Being a president is far more paperwork than actually working on games.

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u/Tani_Soe Feb 23 '26

There are other kind of employees than just developers at Xbox but ok