Truth is, Pat is doing nothing despite the generous government subsidies
It takes YEARS to realize the benefits of these changes.
The problem is, to stopgap TSMCs growing lead, Intel resorted to cranking up voltage on the last two generations of chips leading to what will be an imminent gigantic ass lawsuit.
Well, he did. He bought up a ton of studios and focused on games again. in 2014 they were completely tonedeaf to the state of not just games, but media as a whole. Cable box subscriptions even in 2014 for their 8th generation console was just horrible optics.
Now, is it his fault directly that the game development per studio is slow, or the releases uneven? He's probably not blameless, but MS isn't really known to intervene nor micromanage their studios. IMO that's a much bigger issue than any single MS studio.