{"id":85421,"date":"2026-07-06T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85421"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:39:25","slug":"xbox-ceo-reflects-on-massive-cuts-we-simply-spread-ourselves-too-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85421","title":{"rendered":"Xbox CEO Reflects On Massive Cuts: \u201cWe Simply Spread Ourselves Too Thin\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has shared new details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-layoffs-studio-closures-and-spin-offs-everything-announced-today\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-layoffs-studio-closures-and-spin-offs-everything-announced-today\/\">significant changes at Xbox<\/a>, including mass layoffs, studio spinoffs, and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/07\/06\/exclusive-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-job-cuts-studios-axed-layoffs\" id=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/07\/06\/exclusive-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-job-cuts-studios-axed-layoffs\">Fortune<\/a>, Sharma said Microsoft undertook &#8220;a bunch of bets&#8221; years ago to help grow the business, including Game Pass, going multiplatform, and beefing up its studio base. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/new-xbox-ceo-admits-game-pass-bet-has-not-worked-out\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/new-xbox-ceo-admits-game-pass-bet-has-not-worked-out\/\">These bets did not pay off<\/a>, and in the process of pursuing these new ventures, &#8220;We inherently didn&#8217;t focus on the core business,&#8221; Sharma said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The number one measure of your strategy is what you put your resources behind, and we simply spread ourselves too thin,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1811395\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"615\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sharma-1.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1811395\" \/>Asha Sharma is making major cuts to Xbox. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a memo to staff, Sharma said the Xbox business, as it stands today, is not in a healthy place. If it were, Sharma said the company would be able to &#8220;weather the shock of the hardware crisis&#8221; that Xbox is facing now due to the AI-fueled run on components and memory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;With an unhealthy Xbox, it becomes really challenging, and it accelerates a lot of the changes we need to make,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restructuring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has shared new details on the significant changes at Xbox, including mass layoffs, studio spinoffs, and more. In an interview with Fortune, Sharma said Microsoft undertook &#8220;a bunch of bets&#8221; years ago to help grow the business, including Game Pass, going multiplatform, and beefing up its studio base. These bets did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":85423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85421"}],"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=85421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85424,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85421\/revisions\/85424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}