… It's the first Xbox Showcase with the full and shiny new leadership layer, including Matt Ball on strategy, Matt Booty on content, and Asha Sharma at the top overseeing it all. But it's honestly more than that. Xbox has received new branding and a lot of flowery language and promises already. …
… As Sharma and Xbox’s chief content officer Matt Booty wrote in the “reset” memo, “Excluding Activision Blizzard King, over the past five years, we have spent over $20 billion on ongoing investments in our content, platform, and hardware subsidy, but our annual revenue has declined nearly half a bil… …
… Finally, Xbox is creating a chief operating officer COO role with end‑to‑end responsibility across content, hardware, platform and services, with Helen Chiang stepping up to the plate. Through these changes, Sharma and her colleagues hope to return Xbox to a growth stage in 2027.
… Leadership also highlights four priorities: hardware, content, experience, and services. …
… This shift includes reversing previous strategies, cutting costs, canceling projects, and planning increased investment to enhance Xbox content and brand reputation. …
… A different name under Microsoft's divisions and a different shade of green doesn't mean that we can start to expect Xbox to turn its ship around anytime soon, but these changes, along with the decrease in price for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, already shows that Sharma is not afraid to mak… …
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