Goodbye, Don Mattrick! 5 Things The Last Xbox King Brought Us

4. Kinect

When Xbox 360’s approach to playing games suddenly looked super old-school in the wake of the Wii’s motion-based success, Microsoft had already invented the base technologies that would become Kinect, but it was Mattrick that turned that research into a plastic-shelled peripheral, one that would become Guiness’s fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever and revitalize Xbox 360 sales for years to come. The jury’s out on the impact it had for games (our initial impressions weren’t fantastic) and Microsoft still hasn’t quite sold us on why there needs to be a Kinect with every Xbox One, but the peripheral remains incredibly popular.