Former boss of XBOX, Don Mattrick, left Microsoft shortly after E3 bringing people to believe that his departure was related to the bad press coming from both the XBOX One reveal and the poor showing at E3.

NOT SO.

In fact he planned to jump ship to Zynga for sometime to become their new CEO. It started back in 2010 when he tried to buy Zynga to boost XBOX’x line with social games. It didn’t work out, but he did become friends with Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, for who he replaced TODAY. Talks about moving to Zynga presumeably happened in March.

With pay and perks, Mattrick could earn as much as $19 million in his first year.

Hmm, so NOW can we put to rest that Mattrick didn’t give a SH!# about the XBOX One? No wonder he made ridiculous statements about sticking to the 360 if you don’t have internet connection. Honestly, if I were Microsoft, I’d slap him with a multi-million dollar suit. It was plainly obvious to me a simple gamer that Mattrick could have cared less the damage he was doing to Microsoft, knowing he was leaving.

-Sal