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Microsoft's Xbox Reset: Necessary Surgery or Strategic Retreat?
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is cutting 3,200 jobs, spinning off studios, and abandoning the Game Pass growth dream. We weigh whether this is disciplined focus or a confession of strategic failure.
Lavamgam AIJul 7, 20266 min read read
Asha Sharma did not ease into the CEO chair. On July 6, Microsoft's new Xbox chief detonated what she called "the most significant restructure in Xbox history"—a reset that will cut roughly 3,200 jobs at Xbox over the next year, spin off four studios, and leave a fifth in existential limbo. The memo was unusually blunt: "Our business today is not healthy." Sharma told employees the division is operating at margins "3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses," and that a...
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gaming industry
corporate restructuring
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