{"id":76603,"date":"2026-04-24T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76603"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:37:23","slug":"are-xbox-exclusives-coming-back-heres-what-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-had-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76603","title":{"rendered":"Are Xbox Exclusives Coming Back? Here’s What Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Had To Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has further discussed her thought process as it relates to exclusive games, saying in a new interview that she plans to be thoughtful in whatever decision she comes to.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Game File<\/a>, Sharma said she wants to make “the right decision, not the fastest decision” because such a decision has major ramifications. Whatever Sharma and the team land on in terms of exclusives will amount to “long-swinging decisions that have decade-long impact,” she said.<\/p>\n

So how will Sharma and her team decide if the company will change its policy around exclusive games? There isn’t one specific approach that the company will take–whatever happens, it will be the result of taking multiple issues under consideration.<\/p>\n

“We’ll take a data-driven approach and a strategic-driven approach, and then we’ll look at our principles and we’ll make some calls,” she said. There is no specific timeframe for when Microsoft may adjust its policies, she said, only stating that it will be a thoughtful decision.<\/p>\n

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In a memo to staff recently<\/a>, Sharma said one of her missions is to “re-evaluate” the approach to exclusivity, which could mean a lot of things. Fans have called on Microsoft to return to exclusive games–and Sharma has heard<\/p>\n

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has further discussed her thought process as it relates to exclusive games, saying in a new interview that she plans to be thoughtful in whatever decision she comes to. Speaking to Game File, Sharma said she wants to make “the right decision, not the fastest decision” because such a decision has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":76605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76606,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76603\/revisions\/76606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}