Look, I disagree getting happy with someone losing their job, but Phil Harrison has become a special case in the gaming industry that his erroneous decision cost money and other people jobs with everything related to Stadia and Google’s lack of being Google-less in their only entrance at the gaming industry.

And just yesterday I was remembering reading the 9to5Google surprising development on a old Stadia rumor about Harrison’s defiantly rejecting having Kojima Productions on board of Stadia because just didn’t liked the concept (which resulted on Kojima going back on square one and taking Death Stranding 2 concept and development a big reboot). 

Well, in an incredible timing of my quick rant of yesterday, Business Insider claims that Phil Harrison has quietly left Google a while ago.

Last month it was reported that Google did not quit completely the gaming industry by applying the best of Stadia and Immersive Stream as a perk for Google Cloud gaming customer that needs a back-end for their Live Service games and that Phil Harrison was not in any part of this, but former Stadia executive Jack Buser.

Phil Harrison originally started in the gaming industry by 1989 landing his first high profile job as  head of development for Mindscape International, and prior to that as a game designer and graphic artist in the UK.

By 1992 he was already at Sony and part of their effort on the then-not-so-explored gaming industry opportunities and right after the fallout of Nintendo regarding the Nintendo Playstation, a systema that was going to be a mid-upgrade for the Super Nintendo and then, Sony decided to have their console of their own and was the key person of having Playstation a marked presence in Europe.

In his last stint on Sony, he managed the launch of the Playstation 3 and pretty much he helped with the birth of Playstation Network and Playstation Store which basically destroyed the capacity of Playstation 3 being able to have Linux Distribution and Windows OS installed on Playstation and backward compatibility with PS1 and PS2 behind a paywall for each games.

Late the 2000’s he led the Infogrames & Atari’s effort to capitalize on the changes of the gaming industry, only to fail and leave both companies, specially with Atari in a bankruptcy state.

Finally by early 2010, he led the launch of the Xbox One and was behind the universally despised “alway connected” requirement of Xbox One, which was retracted by Microsoft due unpopular demand.

While some gaming aspect that is today’s reality and where some of Harrison’s known forecast, it is undeniably how a guy having so many misses, still gets so many high profile jobs.