#ashasharma — Public Fediverse posts

Xbox is making some of its biggest cuts ever, and I think it shows just how much the company needs a hard reset to survive under Microsoft. 🎮 ❎ 🎙️

On this episode of the Boss Rush Podcast, Edward, LeRon, and I discuss how Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed more than 3,200 layoffs and a major shift in strategy.

#BossRushPodcast #BossRushClip #Xbox #GamingNews #AshaSharma #XboxLayoffs #DoubleFine #NinjaTheory #GamePass #VideoGames

Asha Sharma, CEO di Xbox, entra nella task force della Federal Reserve su lavoro e produttività. La nomina, a soli tre giorni dal taglio di 3.200 posti in Microsoft, solleva feroci polemiche su un paradosso gestionale che scuote il settore.

#gamingnews #ashasharma #federalreserve #microsoft

Xbox Lays Off 20% Of Staff, Cut Studios, Largely Impacting Acquired Devs It Promised It Wouldn’t Layoff

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/10/xbox-lays-off-20-of-staff-cut-studios-largely-impacting-acquired-devs-it-promised-it-wouldnt-layoff/

Xbox Lays Off 20% Of Staff, Cut Studios, Largely Impacting Acquired Devs It Promised It Wouldn’t Layoff

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/10/xbox-lays-off-20-of-staff-cut-studios-largely-impacting-acquired-devs-it-promised-it-wouldnt-layoff/

I'm waiting for #Microsoft to announce an special #UnrealEngine5 partnership to power their next gen #XBOX games.

If #AshaSharma does not do it, then I'll understand there is already one signed or there is no need.

Nonetheless, the path of profitability at #MicrosoftGaming is to have a large contractor pools with a common language (UE).

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #Unreal #UnrealEngine #UE5 #UnrealEngine6 #UE6 #GameEngine #Epic #EpicGames #Lumen #Nanite #SceneGraph #Verse

I'm waiting for #Microsoft to announce an special #UnrealEngine5 partnership to power their next gen #XBOX games.

If #AshaSharma does not do it, then I'll understand there is already one signed or there is no need.

Nonetheless, the path of profitability at #MicrosoftGaming is to have a large contractor pools with a common language (UE).

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #Unreal #UnrealEngine #UE5 #UnrealEngine6 #UE6 #GameEngine #Epic #EpicGames #Lumen #Nanite #SceneGraph #Verse

Who knew laying off thousands of people. could land you a government job?

Asha Sharma Assigned To Federal Reserve’s ‘Productivity And Jobs’ Task Force The Same Week She Oversaw 1,600 Layoffs (With Another 1,600 To Come)

https://aftermath.site/xbox-asha-sharma-federal-reserve-task-force-layoffs/

#AshaSharma #Xbox #CEO #Microsoft #FederalReserve #US #Labor #Layoffs #Gaming #Tech

Who knew laying off thousands of people. could land you a government job?

Asha Sharma Assigned To Federal Reserve’s ‘Productivity And Jobs’ Task Force The Same Week She Oversaw 1,600 Layoffs (With Another 1,600 To Come)

https://aftermath.site/xbox-asha-sharma-federal-reserve-task-force-layoffs/

#AshaSharma #Xbox #CEO #Microsoft #FederalReserve #US #Labor #Layoffs #Gaming #Tech

Title: #Xbox CEO #AshaSharma Named Advisor To U.S. Federal Reserve Task Force For Productivity And Jobs

Link: https://gameinformer.com/2026/07/09/xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-named-advisor-to-us-federal-reserve-task-force-for-productivity-and

#Gaming #Economy

Title: #Xbox CEO #AshaSharma Named Advisor To U.S. Federal Reserve Task Force For Productivity And Jobs

Link: https://gameinformer.com/2026/07/09/xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-named-advisor-to-us-federal-reserve-task-force-for-productivity-and

#Gaming #Economy

Asha Sharma Assigned To Federal Reserve’s ‘Productivity And Jobs’ Task Force The Same Week She Oversaw 1,600 Layoffs (With Another 1,600 To Come)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/xbox-asha-sharma-federal-reserve-task-force-layoffs/

Asha Sharma Assigned To Federal Reserve’s ‘Productivity And Jobs’ Task Force The Same Week She Oversaw 1,600 Layoffs (With Another 1,600 To Come)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/xbox-asha-sharma-federal-reserve-task-force-layoffs/

Xbox Reset Is Very Painful But Absolutely Necessary

Welcome back Xbox fans and fellow geeks!

As a long-time Xbox fan and owner of three Xbox game consoles, I can say that this current console generation has been disappointing and the current state of Xbox gaming is a huge letdown.

With the approval of Microsoft’s leadership, Team Xbox acquired a lot of game companies that include the giants Activision-Blizzard-King (ABK) and Bethesda, going right down to the smaller game studios. Those were acquired with the promise of new and exciting games that would make Xbox gaming really great in the form of exclusive games, new content for Game Pass subscribers and more.

Sadly, things turned out really disappointing and now the new Xbox head Asha Sharma has the tremendous challenge of making drastic reforms, downsizing and correcting the cases of mismanagement by the previous leadership. That said, she declared a hard reset of the Xbox business and the changes are being implemented already.

To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the Xbox announcement focused on Asha Sharma’s message to the entire team. Some parts in boldface…

We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale.

I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today’s decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication.

Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX.

First, we will reset our content portfolio.

Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision.

Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options.

We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions.

In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX.

Second, we will reset our platform.

We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify.

We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend.

Third, we are resetting how we operate.

As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done.

For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results.

Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX’s history. We wish him all the best.

These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we’ve seen before. This year, we’ll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we’ll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates.

I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect.

To see the full message, click https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/

Indeed, the Xbox business model deteriorated financially and became much harder to manage. The billions of Dollars spent on Xbox gaming over the past several years did not result in the great gaming experiences for fans and gamers, nor did it compel the Xbox game studios to become productive and disciplined.

First-party games of Xbox in the generation of Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S have been lackluster in quality and enjoyment overall. I played Starfield a lot on my Xbox Series X via Xbox Game Pass and my enjoyment of it has been limited compared with other games of Bethesda. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II was fun at first but it ended up being hollow. As the said Ninja Theory-developed game lacked depth with its gameplay and game design, I never bothered to replay it after finishing it. Obsidian Entertainment, a company that specialized in making role-playing games (RPGs), produced new RPGs under the Xbox umbrella but none of them were great. In fact, Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 ended up as commercial failures.

Going back to Asha Sharma’s message, I can say that letting go of Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions was the right move as the huge amount of money Team Xbox spent of them did not result in great games. Compulsion Games’ South of Midnight was a $100,000,000 production that ended up with sales of way below one million copies. More notably, Compulsion Games has a discriminating woke and hateful community manager who goes by the handle @PikaChulita. Look at the captured evidence below.

Speaking of wokeness and discrimination, the controversial Matt Hansen has been laid off from Obsidian Entertainment. Hansen was heavily involved in the huge disappointment called Avowed. That being said, Team Xbox should really REMOVE all the untalented woke activists among its many game developers. Those activists – the feminists, the LGBTQ mob, the Islamists, the Black Lives Matter zealots and others – do not care about making great games at all and they have been misusing Microsoft’s money to turn new Xbox games into vehicles of Leftist/woke/socialist propaganda. Xbox should also cut off any ties with the super woke Sweet Baby Inc.

When it comes to the larger entities like Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King and Mojang, the layoffs are painful but it makes sense to shift investment to focus on higher priority projects. Activision should regain focus on ensuring quality and great fun with its continued productions of Call of Duty (COD) games. Bethesda has to deliver new Fallout and The Elder Scrolls games faster and with the highest quality possible.

With the way things are right now, I am not certain if I will pursue the next-generation Xbox console called “Project Helix”. Memory has gotten much more expensive in recent times due to extremely high demand from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers and the memory manufacturers’ deals with AI companies. How much memory could the next-generation Xbox have and could its retail price exceed $1,000 at launch?

Indeed, the future of Xbox gaming is really clouded and I can only hope that the hard reset of the Xbox business under Asha Sharma will create positive changes and results. To say the least, the reforms have started and only time will tell what will happen next.

In ending this blog post, posted below are selected YouTube videos about the state of Xbox for your enlightenment.  

https://youtu.be/2BZBoBAZGsc?si=aL2iNzIiW6It6zvF

https://youtu.be/G7gFcdPmUeM?si=RjfV62K2TEgK4W4c

https://youtu.be/B8jITSU6IfM?si=npeGI3VDmYPRoX4n

https://youtu.be/qWFSICcym9c?si=OVgz7K77aGsISa2N

https://youtu.be/DeUV3IqEZRU?si=U4mZnmOQGY2V6CKO

https://youtu.be/O_1YpnEKkxA?si=yKa24vue7V60KilE

https://youtu.be/FGFD1W415FE?si=NI380YIxmaw2CNBg

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Xbox Reset Is Very Painful But Absolutely Necessary

Welcome back Xbox fans and fellow geeks!

As a long-time Xbox fan and owner of three Xbox game consoles, I can say that this current console generation has been disappointing and the current state of Xbox gaming is a huge letdown.

With the approval of Microsoft’s leadership, Team Xbox acquired a lot of game companies that include the giants Activision-Blizzard-King (ABK) and Bethesda, going right down to the smaller game studios. Those were acquired with the promise of new and exciting games that would make Xbox gaming really great in the form of exclusive games, new content for Game Pass subscribers and more.

Sadly, things turned out really disappointing and now the new Xbox head Asha Sharma has the tremendous challenge of making drastic reforms, downsizing and correcting the cases of mismanagement by the previous leadership. That said, she declared a hard reset of the Xbox business and the changes are being implemented already.

To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the Xbox announcement focused on Asha Sharma’s message to the entire team. Some parts in boldface…

We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale.

I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today’s decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication.

Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX.

First, we will reset our content portfolio.

Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision.

Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options.

We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions.

In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX.

Second, we will reset our platform.

We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify.

We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend.

Third, we are resetting how we operate.

As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done.

For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results.

Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX’s history. We wish him all the best.

These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we’ve seen before. This year, we’ll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we’ll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates.

I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect.

To see the full message, click https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/

Indeed, the Xbox business model deteriorated financially and became much harder to manage. The billions of Dollars spent on Xbox gaming over the past several years did not result in the great gaming experiences for fans and gamers, nor did it compel the Xbox game studios to become productive and disciplined.

First-party games of Xbox in the generation of Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S have been lackluster in quality and enjoyment overall. I played Starfield a lot on my Xbox Series X via Xbox Game Pass and my enjoyment of it has been limited compared with other games of Bethesda. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II was fun at first but it ended up being hollow. As the said Ninja Theory-developed game lacked depth with its gameplay and game design, I never bothered to replay it after finishing it. Obsidian Entertainment, a company that specialized in making role-playing games (RPGs), produced new RPGs under the Xbox umbrella but none of them were great. In fact, Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 ended up as commercial failures.

Going back to Asha Sharma’s message, I can say that letting go of Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions was the right move as the huge amount of money Team Xbox spent of them did not result in great games. Compulsion Games’ South of Midnight was a $100,000,000 production that ended up with sales of way below one million copies. More notably, Compulsion Games has a discriminating woke and hateful community manager who goes by the handle @PikaChulita. Look at the captured evidence below.

Speaking of wokeness and discrimination, the controversial Matt Hansen has been laid off from Obsidian Entertainment. Hansen was heavily involved in the huge disappointment called Avowed. That being said, Team Xbox should really REMOVE all the untalented woke activists among its many game developers. Those activists – the feminists, the LGBTQ mob, the Islamists, the Black Lives Matter zealots and others – do not care about making great games at all and they have been misusing Microsoft’s money to turn new Xbox games into vehicles of Leftist/woke/socialist propaganda. Xbox should also cut off any ties with the super woke Sweet Baby Inc.

When it comes to the larger entities like Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King and Mojang, the layoffs are painful but it makes sense to shift investment to focus on higher priority projects. Activision should regain focus on ensuring quality and great fun with its continued productions of Call of Duty (COD) games. Bethesda has to deliver new Fallout and The Elder Scrolls games faster and with the highest quality possible.

With the way things are right now, I am not certain if I will pursue the next-generation Xbox console called “Project Helix”. Memory has gotten much more expensive in recent times due to extremely high demand from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers and the memory manufacturers’ deals with AI companies. How much memory could the next-generation Xbox have and could its retail price exceed $1,000 at launch?

Indeed, the future of Xbox gaming is really clouded and I can only hope that the hard reset of the Xbox business under Asha Sharma will create positive changes and results. To say the least, the reforms have started and only time will tell what will happen next.

In ending this blog post, posted below are selected YouTube videos about the state of Xbox for your enlightenment.  

https://youtu.be/2BZBoBAZGsc?si=aL2iNzIiW6It6zvF

https://youtu.be/G7gFcdPmUeM?si=RjfV62K2TEgK4W4c

https://youtu.be/B8jITSU6IfM?si=npeGI3VDmYPRoX4n

https://youtu.be/qWFSICcym9c?si=OVgz7K77aGsISa2N

https://youtu.be/DeUV3IqEZRU?si=U4mZnmOQGY2V6CKO

https://youtu.be/O_1YpnEKkxA?si=yKa24vue7V60KilE

https://youtu.be/FGFD1W415FE?si=NI380YIxmaw2CNBg

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Xbox Announces Major Restructuring and Significant Layoffs

A New Direction for Xbox
Xbox is set to undergo a major corporate shift as new CEO Asha Sharma announced what is being described as the most significant restructure in the history of the Microsoft-owned gaming division. The plan involves a reduction in workforce that will impact thousands of employees over the coming year....

#AshaSharma #NinjaTheory #xbox

Terremoto in casa Xbox: Phil Spencer lascia la divisione dopo una strategia di acquisizioni insostenibile e promesse tradite. Ora tocca ad Asha Sharma gestire il difficile processo di ristrutturazione e le macerie di una crisi profonda. #gamingnews #xbox #philspencer #ashasharma

From what I've seen, the layoffs at #Bethesda and #idSoftware directly affect the development of #idTech.

The engine that powered games like Quake, Doom, Rage, Wolfenstein, and many more.

The market has changed a lot and engine uniformity is the key due to workforce. Everything is going to run Unreal Engine 5 because is cheaper. Game Engine creativity is dead.

The next Quare is going to run on UE6.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #XBOX #MicrosoftGaming #Microsoft #AshaSharma

From what I've seen, the layoffs at #Bethesda and #idSoftware directly affect the development of #idTech.

The engine that powered games like Quake, Doom, Rage, Wolfenstein, and many more.

The market has changed a lot and engine uniformity is the key due to workforce. Everything is going to run Unreal Engine 5 because is cheaper. Game Engine creativity is dead.

The next Quare is going to run on UE6.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #XBOX #MicrosoftGaming #Microsoft #AshaSharma

Xbox Announces Major Restructuring and Significant Layoffs

A New Direction for Xbox
Xbox is set to undergo a major corporate shift as new CEO Asha Sharma announced what is being described as the most significant restructure in the history of the Microsoft-owned gaming division. The plan involves a reduction in workforce that will impact thousands of employees over the coming year....

#AshaSharma #NinjaTheory #xbox

It’s Independence from Xbox Day
Hey, at least Xbox isn’t outright closing studios here, but this is clearly only a beginning.
https://www.dcgameblog.com/2026/07/its-independence-from-xbox-day/
#ArkaneStudios #AshaSharma #CompulsionGames #DoubleFine #Microsoft #NinjaTheory #Psychonauts2 #Senuagame #UndeadLabs #XboxGameStudios

It’s Independence from Xbox Day
Hey, at least Xbox isn’t outright closing studios here, but this is clearly only a beginning.
https://www.dcgameblog.com/2026/07/its-independence-from-xbox-day/
#ArkaneStudios #AshaSharma #CompulsionGames #DoubleFine #Microsoft #NinjaTheory #Psychonauts2 #Senuagame #UndeadLabs #XboxGameStudios

How Did Xbox Get Here?
#Business #BusinessNews #AshaSharma #VideoGames #Xbox

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-xbox-layoffs-studio-closures-what-went-wrong-1236639066/

How Did Xbox Get Here?
#Business #BusinessNews #AshaSharma #VideoGames #Xbox

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-xbox-layoffs-studio-closures-what-went-wrong-1236639066/

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants the company to "entertain more than a billion people" every day: here's why that's a deeply unrealistic thing to say

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-one-billion

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants the company to "entertain more than a billion people" every day: here's why that's a deeply unrealistic thing to say

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-one-billion

Xbox Announces Major Restructuring and Significant Layoffs

A New Direction for Xbox
Xbox is set to undergo a major corporate shift as new CEO Asha Sharma announced what is being described as the most significant restructure in the history of the Microsoft-owned gaming division. The plan involves a reduction in workforce that will impact thousands of employees over the coming year....

#AshaSharma #NinjaTheory #xbox

Xbox Laying Off 3,200 Staffers, CEO Confirms: “Our Business Today Is Not Healthy”
#News #VideoGames #AshaSharma #Layoffs #Microsoft #Xbox

https://deadline.com/2026/07/xbox-layoffs-3200-staffers-ceo-microsoft-1236974661/

Xbox Laying Off 3,200 Staffers, CEO Confirms: “Our Business Today Is Not Healthy”
#News #VideoGames #AshaSharma #Layoffs #Microsoft #Xbox

https://deadline.com/2026/07/xbox-layoffs-3200-staffers-ceo-microsoft-1236974661/

Xbox to Lay Off Up to 3,200 Staffers in ‘Most Significant Restructure’ in Company’s History
#Variety #News #AshaSharma #Xbox

https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/xbox-layoffs-3200-4-studios-sold-1236802326/

Xbox to Lay Off Up to 3,200 Staffers in ‘Most Significant Restructure’ in Company’s History
#Variety #News #AshaSharma #Xbox

https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/xbox-layoffs-3200-4-studios-sold-1236802326/

Also, I don't believe #AshaSharma promise of "exclusivity". There is zero exclusive games in #XBOX.

The moment it's available on your hardware platform and another platform, it stops being "exclusive". It becomes multi-platform, end of story.

For #HaloCampaignEvolved, #GearsOfWarEDay, it means selling copies or #GamePass subscriptions, instead of letting it gather dust on Xbox Series consoles that nobody buys.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #Microsoft #MicrosoftGaming #ConsoleWar

Also, I don't believe #AshaSharma promise of "exclusivity". There is zero exclusive games in #XBOX.

The moment it's available on your hardware platform and another platform, it stops being "exclusive". It becomes multi-platform, end of story.

For #HaloCampaignEvolved, #GearsOfWarEDay, it means selling copies or #GamePass subscriptions, instead of letting it gather dust on Xbox Series consoles that nobody buys.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #Microsoft #MicrosoftGaming #ConsoleWar

#LukeStephens says is it is: #XBOX is an old dog with a rattlesnake bite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIPJWqQYpuU

That dog can be saved by doing something crazy, or letting grandpa take him to the backyard for good.

Remember, this has a genesis: #DonMattrick, E3 2013. Everything up to this point can be tracked to that fateful moment. #AshaSharma is just the next reaper in line.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #Microsoft #MicrosoftGaming #ConsoleWar

#LukeStephens says is it is: #XBOX is an old dog with a rattlesnake bite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIPJWqQYpuU

That dog can be saved by doing something crazy, or letting grandpa take him to the backyard for good.

Remember, this has a genesis: #DonMattrick, E3 2013. Everything up to this point can be tracked to that fateful moment. #AshaSharma is just the next reaper in line.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #Microsoft #MicrosoftGaming #ConsoleWar

Xbox: A Mess, Moving Back To Exclusivity Deals, & The Layoffs Microsoft Promised Wouldn’t Happen

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/xbox-a-mess-moving-back-to-exclusivity-deals-the-layoffs-microsoft-promised-wouldnt-happen/

Xbox: A Mess, Moving Back To Exclusivity Deals, & The Layoffs Microsoft Promised Wouldn’t Happen

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/xbox-a-mess-moving-back-to-exclusivity-deals-the-layoffs-microsoft-promised-wouldnt-happen/

“Microsoft is in the middle of a ‘hardware component crisis.’”

“Earlier this year it was reported that the #PlayStation 6 and the new #Xbox consoles could be delayed to 2029 due to #RAMmageddon, which is what some are calling the #scarcity and subsequent #price increase of #memory #chips that are being used in AI data centres.”

“When I joined as #CEO in February, the price we paid for #ConsoleStorage #components was over 2x as high as we paid last fall. These #costs have since doubled again. And as we plan for the 2027 holiday season, we expect another significant increase, taking us over 5x the prices we paid only two years earlier. #Memory costs have followed a broadly similar trajectory,” said Sharma.

“While the entire industry is facing a components crisis, we believe we have been impacted more greatly than many of our peers due to the choices we made over the last half decade.”

Think of finance as the slosh of water 🌊 in a very slow bath. The shortages occur when money has been moved deliberately to another industry. Guess which one?

#Microsoft / #AshaSharma / #manufacturing / #AI / #Computing / #externalities <https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/xbox-project-helix-affordable-hardware-crisis-release-date-3950204>

“Microsoft is in the middle of a ‘hardware component crisis.’”

“Earlier this year it was reported that the #PlayStation 6 and the new #Xbox consoles could be delayed to 2029 due to #RAMmageddon, which is what some are calling the #scarcity and subsequent #price increase of #memory #chips that are being used in AI data centres.”

“When I joined as #CEO in February, the price we paid for #ConsoleStorage #components was over 2x as high as we paid last fall. These #costs have since doubled again. And as we plan for the 2027 holiday season, we expect another significant increase, taking us over 5x the prices we paid only two years earlier. #Memory costs have followed a broadly similar trajectory,” said Sharma.

“While the entire industry is facing a components crisis, we believe we have been impacted more greatly than many of our peers due to the choices we made over the last half decade.”

Think of finance as the slosh of water 🌊 in a very slow bath. The shortages occur when money has been moved deliberately to another industry. Guess which one?

#Microsoft / #AshaSharma / #manufacturing / #AI / #Computing / #externalities <https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/xbox-project-helix-affordable-hardware-crisis-release-date-3950204>

Authenticity & transparency? Refreshing. Well done, Asha & Matt.

(So who's gonna discuss the "30% accountability" stuff? <smirk>)

▶️ Next 100 Days: XBOX Reset - XBOX Wire
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/10/next-100-days-xbox-reset/
#xbox #ashasharma #mattbooty

Authenticity & transparency? Refreshing. Well done, Asha & Matt.

(So who's gonna discuss the "30% accountability" stuff? <smirk>)

▶️ Next 100 Days: XBOX Reset - XBOX Wire
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/10/next-100-days-xbox-reset/
#xbox #ashasharma #mattbooty

«More exclusives when the business is healthy»

In other words, #GearsOfWarEDay and #ClockworkRevolution are going to #PlayStation5 in 2027 and 2028, respectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJkmpRDZ18

That "business is healthy" shit... no dawg. It's not healthy today and won't be tomorrow with the RAMpocalypse.

A #Switch2 is still my recommendation today.

#Videogames #Gaming #Game #XBOX #XboxGamesShowcase #PS5 #ConsoleWar #GearsOfWar #AshaSharma

«More exclusives when the business is healthy»

In other words, #GearsOfWarEDay and #ClockworkRevolution are going to #PlayStation5 in 2027 and 2028, respectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJkmpRDZ18

That "business is healthy" shit... no dawg. It's not healthy today and won't be tomorrow with the RAMpocalypse.

A #Switch2 is still my recommendation today.

#Videogames #Gaming #Game #XBOX #XboxGamesShowcase #PS5 #ConsoleWar #GearsOfWar #AshaSharma

Layoffs Coming at Xbox? New CEO Outlines Upcoming ‘Reset’ in Memo to Staff: ‘Surprising and Even Frustrating’ Realities Facing Business
#Variety #News #AshaSharma #Xbox

https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/xbox-layoffs-new-ceo-reset-1236771863/

Layoffs Coming at Xbox? New CEO Outlines Upcoming ‘Reset’ in Memo to Staff: ‘Surprising and Even Frustrating’ Realities Facing Business
#Variety #News #AshaSharma #Xbox

https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/xbox-layoffs-new-ceo-reset-1236771863/

No Matty, #AshaSharma didn't inherit a "worse" XBOX from Phil Spencer, than Phil from Don Mattrick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypeRV-227Js

In 2013 onwards, if you didn't have a PlayStation 4 you didn't have friends. Xbox became Microsoft Gaming and they were looking to sell that shit. Not even Halo saved that shit, it buried the console and the franchise.

It was a dark time.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #XBOX #Microsoft #XboxGamesShowcase

No Matty, #AshaSharma didn't inherit a "worse" XBOX from Phil Spencer, than Phil from Don Mattrick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypeRV-227Js

In 2013 onwards, if you didn't have a PlayStation 4 you didn't have friends. Xbox became Microsoft Gaming and they were looking to sell that shit. Not even Halo saved that shit, it buried the console and the franchise.

It was a dark time.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #XBOX #Microsoft #XboxGamesShowcase

New executive leader Asha Sharma is starting out her term as Xbox CEO JUST FINE. 😁

▶️ Xbox Fans find out they're getting a free Xbox Series X25 | Xbox Fan fest Reaction 2026
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0DSqsiHZ-EA&si=Q9sJ3N5VlQqK6bdB
#xbox #xboxfanfest #ashasharma #xbox25thanniversary #xboxfan #msftadvocate

New executive leader Asha Sharma is starting out her term as Xbox CEO JUST FINE. 😁

▶️ Xbox Fans find out they're getting a free Xbox Series X25 | Xbox Fan fest Reaction 2026
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0DSqsiHZ-EA&si=Q9sJ3N5VlQqK6bdB
#xbox #xboxfanfest #ashasharma #xbox25thanniversary #xboxfan #msftadvocate

Cognition Dissemination: Xbox Squeezes the Genie Back in the Bottle
Reigniting their Xbox console-exclusives initiative is a serious risk after years of embracing a third-party strategy.
https://www.dcgameblog.com/2026/06/cognition-dissemination-xbox-squeezes-the-genie-back-in-the-bottle/
#AshaSharma #CognitionDissemination #Fable2027 #GearsOfWarEDay #Microsoft #VideoGames #Xbox #XboxGameStudios

Cognition Dissemination: Xbox Squeezes the Genie Back in the Bottle
Reigniting their Xbox console-exclusives initiative is a serious risk after years of embracing a third-party strategy.
https://www.dcgameblog.com/2026/06/cognition-dissemination-xbox-squeezes-the-genie-back-in-the-bottle/
#AshaSharma #CognitionDissemination #Fable2027 #GearsOfWarEDay #Microsoft #VideoGames #Xbox #XboxGameStudios

At this point in the lifecycle of XBOX, only Asha Sharma can bring back #MickGordon.

I don't believe he wants to go back to the world of impossible deadlines, missing payments, and unflexible leadership.

This means that, as long #MartyStratton is still on Bethesda, Mick will never go back. What a shame.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #XBOX #AshaSharma #Microsoft #Bethesda #Doom #DoomTheDarkAges

At this point in the lifecycle of XBOX, only Asha Sharma can bring back #MickGordon.

I don't believe he wants to go back to the world of impossible deadlines, missing payments, and unflexible leadership.

This means that, as long #MartyStratton is still on Bethesda, Mick will never go back. What a shame.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #XBOX #AshaSharma #Microsoft #Bethesda #Doom #DoomTheDarkAges

I'm sold with #HaloCampaignEvolved. It looked good, and seems they're adding more content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPrm70EK2f0

HaloCE is looks more like a reinterpretation than a just remake. That should be enough to push sales, given how Halo as lost its way recently.

Again, another course correction.

#AshaSharma #Videogames #Gaming #Microsoft #XBOXGamesShowcase #XBOX #Halo #Remake #Retro

I'm sold with #HaloCampaignEvolved. It looked good, and seems they're adding more content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPrm70EK2f0

HaloCE is looks more like a reinterpretation than a just remake. That should be enough to push sales, given how Halo as lost its way recently.

Again, another course correction.

#AshaSharma #Videogames #Gaming #Microsoft #XBOXGamesShowcase #XBOX #Halo #Remake #Retro

#AshaSharma first commendment: Piss of PlayStation.

#GearsOfWarEDay is Xbox exclusive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y85lNvF3kVQ

They know it will sell less than being multiplatform, but I believe that Asha knows the moment the XBOX soul is traded for pennies, the brand dies.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #GearsOfWar #GOW #Microsoft #XBOXGamesShowcase #XBOX

#AshaSharma first commendment: Piss of PlayStation.

#GearsOfWarEDay is Xbox exclusive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y85lNvF3kVQ

They know it will sell less than being multiplatform, but I believe that Asha knows the moment the XBOX soul is traded for pennies, the brand dies.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #GearsOfWar #GOW #Microsoft #XBOXGamesShowcase #XBOX

Blogpost 📝: Asha Sharma: Xbox soll zur führenden Gaming-Plattform werden - https://inaimathi.de/asha-sharma-xbox-soll-zur-fuehrenden-gaming-plattform-werden/

#AshaSharma #Microsoft #PhilSpencer #Xbox #Blog

Blogpost 📝: Asha Sharma: Xbox soll zur führenden Gaming-Plattform werden - https://inaimathi.de/asha-sharma-xbox-soll-zur-fuehrenden-gaming-plattform-werden/

#AshaSharma #Microsoft #PhilSpencer #Xbox #Blog