Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth. Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After a massive Xbox “reset” that laid off thousands of employees and spun off four studios, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants to get Xbox back to growth. In a memo obtained by The Verge, Sharma told staff by the end of fiscal year 2027 (which runs through next June), “we will return XBOX to player and revenue growth.” Xbox will also “improve profits back in line with industry averages,” Sharma said. “Every function and studio will own part of that outcome.” Since taking over Xbox in February, Sharma has made sweeping changes to attempt to turn things around. Previously, she has cited challenges like a low accountability margin, increasing component costs for hardware, an “
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An early Starfield menu might've spoiled an TES6 secret years ago Earlier this month, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shared that she watched a live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6, boasting that the game's "scale and grandeur" were "incredible"…
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An early Starfield menu might've spoiled an TES6 secret years ago Earlier this month, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shared that she watched a live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6, boasting that the game's "scale and grandeur"…
Read original at Polygon →After layoffs ripped through Doom developer id Software in July, lead services programmer Chris Hays has taken aim at Xbox: "They fundamentally don't understand art." Hays, who is currently employed at the studio behind…
Read original at IGN →Halo Studios, the developer behind the recent Halo: Campaign Evolved release (which we consider to be one of the best remakes of all time), is laying off members of the team. First reported on by Insider Gaming, several…
Read original at Polygon →Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth. Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to…
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An early Starfield menu might've spoiled an TES6 secret years ago Earlier this month, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shared that she watched a live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6, boasting that the game's "scale and grandeur" were "incredible"…
View source →After layoffs ripped through Doom developer id Software in July, lead services programmer Chris Hays has taken aim at Xbox: "They fundamentally don't understand art." Hays, who is currently employed at the studio behind first-person…
View source →Halo Studios, the developer behind the recent Halo: Campaign Evolved release (which we consider to be one of the best remakes of all time), is laying off members of the team. First reported on by Insider Gaming, several employees have…
View source →Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth. Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest
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