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“Be backward compatible: Look, I know replicating technological capabilities and performance is tricky when you’ve switched hardware vendors. Gamers don’t care, though. They just want it done.

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If the next Xbox launches and people aren’t able to play “Halo 2” along with their new titles, you’re going to have a riot on your hands. Given how heavily you marketed that title, you’ll deserve that riot.

Follow through: As any company gets close to a launch window, the hyperbole ratchets up to an outlandish degree. No problem. We’ve all come to accept it. But how about, just for giggles, following up on all the promises Microsoft (Research) makes? “

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