Matthew Ball

Like, that is, like, I think for everybody involved, like, the ebbs and flows of the strategy...

My hope is that Asha Sharma and Matthew Ball are at the wheel with like a steady hand.

I mean, it makes sense that they would be taking the IP that they have and trying to expand on it and bring it to as many surfaces meaningfully as they can.

I just hope that it's like we can stop hearing about reshuffles and it's like the structure is here.

So if you're getting rid of day one Game Pass games to where that person would now have to pay $70 instead of...

Yeah, Ma- like Matthew Ball would have fucking...

Think about that.

If Alet- if Alethea came out and said, "Yeah, the game sold," what was it? 270,000 copies, and it was like substantially wrong, Matthew Ball would've been like, "No, go fuck yourself." Like-

[laughs]

... like, "You're wrong."

Rockstar Games still hasn't announced a PC version on G- of GTA VI, more on that later, uh, and a streaming deal would normally also allow Xbox to market its Xbox Cloud gaming service to PC players who would otherwise need a Series X or S or a PS5 console.

Uh, after The Verge originally reported that the deal will be ex, uh, exclusive, Xbox chief strategy officer, uh, Matthew Ball revealed on Twitter that Microsoft would not be streaming GTA VI exclusively, nor to PCs.

That suggests that the deal is simply for Xbox console streaming, and may mean the web browser and apps that can usually access cloud gaming will not be able to stream GTA VI

Okay.

These are very YouTube-ish and moldable IP that can... effectively succeed meanwhile on the game side it's like well we got to push what works and there's sort of this concurrent push where like the game should sell the tv show where the tv show should sell the game

well let's let's maybe frame this question because i'm you know that that was the statement right that dasha and matthew ball have come out they want to be the biggest entertainment company in the world i will first ask you that the others you know the three of you Presently, who do you think the biggest entertainment company in the world is?

By market cap?

By whatever metric.

And it dropped that story about, I think, 15 minutes before I was supposed to be on a panel moderated by Justin.

So I sort of shared this on the panel and we talked about it.

And then, of course, it was debunked by Matthew Ball several hours later.

But reading between the lines, I think it would, you know, it's not, so I think probably the answer will be on both PlayStation and Xbox, certainly in PlayStation, you can, it's, I would guess, stream to your PlayStation portal, I'm guessing.

If we, if we read from the blog, they've said, uh, "Our ambition at X-" This is, uh, Matt Booty, I should point out as well.

Uh, no, it's not, sorry, it's Matthew Ball, not Matt Booty.

Yeah.

Matt Ball.

Um, but, like, Microsoft would not use the word exclusive here.

Um, so Tom wrote his report, um, and Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball tweeted-

Doesn't seem to like Tom

... [laughs] Well, I mean, I bet it was frustrating for, for Tom Warren, but, uh-

The, but he also said it's not exclusive, and it's not on PC.

So- So he was adding the PC part.

Who? Matthew Ball.

Yes.

So what are some...

We should, we should mention, what is XP? So I'll, I'll go to the Xbox Wire blog where Matthew Ball talks about-

Yeah

...

XP, and basically, uh-

Matthew Baller.

I've started calling him Matthew Baller in person, in, I don't know

So their ambition in Xbox is to be the number one entertainment company in the world, and they want to grow their games into enduring franchises that entertain, inspire, and connect people across every generation across the globe.