Can strategic lessons from Microsoft’s Xbox business provide a framework for the revival of the country?
Our guest on the GeekWire radio show this week is Robbie Bach, the former Microsoft President and Chief Xbox Officer and the author of the new book, “Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal.” We discuss the core principles outlined in the book, revisit some of the tough lessons learned during the development of the Xbox and Xbox 360, and talk about the current state of Microsoft and the console industry, among many other topics.
The PS4 and Xbox One’s console cycle has been well-documented over the first two and a half years of its life-cycle, but when you take a look back at the PS3 and Xbox 360’s beginning, t…
They were very smart with the 360 and got the marketshare, but lost their ways with the one
Yet the Xbox 360 launch still felt rushed, what with it's high failure rates and other various hardware malfunctions like disc scratching.
You don't plan so far in advance when you will release a product and have it still be so extremely faulty around release that it costs your company more than a billion dollars to fix.
Video games have become one of the biggest industries in the world, with so many different divisions of gaming having grown over the past decade.
Gaming consoles do not come along everyday, and so when a company takes a crack at doing so, there are often times a lot of lessons to be learned. Sony learned them in the past with PS3 and with the Xbox One, Microsoft did the same.
Seems like an odd title. (at least to me) If you truly learned before, and you repeat the same mistakes, what did you learn the first time? Maybe they finally learned from mistakes that they made before???
After reading, it seems that Bach is saying that he had HOPED that they learned from lessons in the past and couldn't see (while imbedded in the heat of everything) that they hadn't. Kind of a hindsight being 20/20 situation.
Either way, MS has come a long way from the console that was initially pitched. I can respect that.