{"id":77601,"date":"2026-05-07T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77601"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:36:42","slug":"new-xbox-ceo-considering-range-of-options-for-exclusive-games-going-forward-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77601","title":{"rendered":"New Xbox CEO Considering “Range Of Options” For Exclusive Games Going Forward – Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the changes that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma could make as the new boss could pertain to Microsoft’s controversial multiplatform strategy. She said as much during a recent town hall<\/a>, and now new reporting from The Verge<\/a> states that Sharma is “evaluating a range of options for Xbox exclusive games.”<\/p>\n

The report said Sharma is “treading carefully” and is not yet ready to sign off on “any major changes” to the policy.<\/p>\n

This is hardly a surprise. Before this, Sharma said she’s trying to make “the right decision, not the fastest decision.”<\/a> 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

Sharma said she will take a “data-driven approach and a strategic-driven approach” to decide what happens next. She also declined to provide a timeline for when a decision may be made.<\/p>\n

Fans have called on Microsoft to return to exclusive games–and Sharma has heard those calls<\/a>–but it remains to be seen if anything will actually change.<\/p>\n

Microsoft released exclusive games for years, but that changed in a big way in 2024 when the company launched a new campaign to bring its first-party games to rival consoles<\/a>, including PS5 and Switch,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the changes that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma could make as the new boss could pertain to Microsoft’s controversial multiplatform strategy. She said as much during a recent town hall, and now new reporting from The Verge states that Sharma is “evaluating a range of options for Xbox exclusive games.” The report said Sharma…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77601","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\/77601"}],"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=77601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77604,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77601\/revisions\/77604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}