Microsoft’s Entertainment Head Don Mattrick Leaving to POSSIBLY Take Zynga CEO Role - Polidicks

[table="width: 1200, class: outer_border"] [tr] [td][img]http://i1.wp.com/allthingsd.com/files/2014/07/60218-254075-PREDICTIONSDONpng-620x-380x214.jpg[/img][/td] [td]Don Mattrick, the president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business — which centers on the Xbox and all the software giant’s gaming and entertainment efforts — is leaving the company, said multiple sources close to the situation. These sources added that the high-profile executive is also close to taking a top job at Zynga, the troubled online social gaming company, possibly as its CEO and working in close partnership with its founder and current CEO Mark Pincus. Sources said the announcement of Mattrick’s appointment could be made as soon as today, after the markets close. The move appears to be largely unrelated to the [url=http://allthingsd.com/20130623/update-microsoft-restructuring-nears-as-execs-top-fret-over-their-fate/]massive restructuring being mulled by CEO Steve Ballmer at Microsoft.[/url] Talks between Mattrick and Zynga have been going on for some time, said sources. [url=http://allthingsd.com/20130701/exclusive-microsofts-entertainment-head-don-mattrick-leaving-to-take-top-role-possibly-ceo-at-zynga/]Source[/url][/td] [/tr] [/table]

[IMG]http://i1.wp.com/allthingsd.com/files/2014/07/60218-254075-PREDICTIONSDONpng-620x-380x214.jpg[/IMG] oh my god, that faceeeeeeee

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How can this incompetent prick just be given a high paying job in another company after the Xbox One fiasco? I guess once you got the dosh, it's easy to keep it.

I bet he "resigned" after the presentation of the one

isn't zynga doing pretty badly? it would be like jumping into a sinking ship.

Once the 'mobile gaming' bubble bursts he will realize his mistakes.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

[QUOTE=YouWithTheFace.;41265510]isn't zynga doing pretty badly? it would be like jumping into a sinking ship.[/QUOTE] Then the ship he jumped from patched up it's holes.

[QUOTE=YouWithTheFace.;41265510]isn't zynga doing pretty badly? it would be like jumping into a sinking ship.[/QUOTE] Jumping from one sinking ship to another sinking ship.

Mattrick, go home

[QUOTE=Wiggles;41265535]Out of the frying pan into the fire.[/QUOTE] I be the music biz number one supplier!

This reminds me of that gif of the guy stealing the lifevest from a girl on a sinking ship, jumps into the water, and a shark eats him alive

Out of the frying pan and into the fire Mattrick.

[QUOTE=YouWithTheFace.;41265510]isn't zynga doing pretty badly? it would be like jumping into a sinking ship.[/QUOTE] They're probably doing better than Microsoft currently.

NOOOO NOT DON MATTRICK

It's not like he could do anything to make Zynga worse.

[QUOTE=ptown2;41265403][IMG]http://i1.wp.com/allthingsd.com/files/2014/07/60218-254075-PREDICTIONSDONpng-620x-380x214.jpg[/IMG] oh my god, that faceeeeeeee[/QUOTE] Is it just me or does he look like one of the preset Xbox 360 avatar figures? Maybe they modeled the faces after him?

Will Robert Xbox have to change his name to Robert Farmville?

so he is the one who envisioned the Xbox One right?

[QUOTE=gungar;41265639]They're probably doing better than Microsoft currently.[/QUOTE] Microsoft gaming maybe. The thing with Zynga is that they just continually poured their money into one niche and never expanded beyond that, Microsoft has a hand in a little bit of everything so they're a relatively stable company.

[QUOTE=AkujiTheSniper;41265563]This reminds me of that gif of the guy stealing the lifevest from a girl on a sinking ship, jumps into the water, and a shark eats him alive[/QUOTE] You mean this one: [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oIxoAd3UBes/UW3rTbx7RoI/AAAAAAAAIPU/BirmIu1xCaU/s1600/shark-attack_2.gif[/IMG]

It didn't take VideoGamerTV long to make a video about this. [video=youtube;ytf1jYUO4qs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytf1jYUO4qs[/video]

you guys do know CEOs don't really do much right? they basically just make money due to connections and etc, the ones who really do the CEO work in companies are the vice-presidents. CEO position is almost a retirement.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/GAPizb7.jpg[/img] [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOGsyRBCAAAbqnt.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=ptown2;41265403][IMG]http://i1.wp.com/allthingsd.com/files/2014/07/60218-254075-PREDICTIONSDONpng-620x-380x214.jpg[/IMG] oh my god, that faceeeeeeee[/QUOTE] his face screams "mom said it's my turn to play"

Humm, I honestly thought he would go back to EA.

I bet he sabotaged the Xbone so he could laugh as he walked out the door with his obscene paycheck

This way he can stop making microsoft look like asses and systemically destroy Zynga

[QUOTE=bubbagamer;41265453]How can this incompetent prick just be given a high paying job in another company after the Xbox One fiasco? I guess once you got the dosh, it's easy to keep it.[/QUOTE] you're acting as if he was the mastermind behind the entirety of the xbox one all he did was say the shit the guys at the corporate office wrote down for him