{"id":90371,"date":"2026-09-30T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90371"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:43:38","slug":"ex-playstation-boss-has-some-advice-for-xbox-pick-a-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90371","title":{"rendered":"Ex-PlayStation Boss Has Some Advice For Xbox: \u201cPick A Lane\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xbox has undergone major changes since a new leadership team took over. Under Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Microsoft&#8217;s gaming division has had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/all-the-major-xbox-changes-microsoft-announced-today-layoffs-halo-changing-hands-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">waves of mass layoffs<\/a>, parted ways with several studios, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/what-is-xbox-game-studios-at-this-point\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consolidated its remaining developers<\/a> under Activision, Blizzard,\u00a0King, and Bethesda. All of this is being done to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/microsoft-boss-wants-xbox-to-start-pulling-its-weight-financially\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">make Xbox a profitable part<\/a> of the Microsoft empire and to grow its reach, but former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has suggested that the company should &#8220;pick a lane&#8221; and narrow its focus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I said in another interview a couple of months ago, you&#8217;ve got to pick a lane,&#8221; Layden said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheExpansionPass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Expansion Pass<\/a> when he was asked if he had any advice for Sharma.\u00a0&#8220;Either you&#8217;re going to be a platform competitive with PlayStation&#8211;which Xbox has not been competitive with PlayStation for years&#8211;but that&#8217;s not out of the window. You can still make another run at it. And there are certain decisions you have to make around that about the platform. We talked about exclusivity. We talked about how do you\u00a0incentivize third parties to support your platform in a meaningful way.\u00a0These are all things around the platform business, or you sit back and realize you are the biggest game publisher in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox has undergone major changes since a new leadership team took over. Under Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Microsoft&#8217;s gaming division has had\u00a0waves of mass layoffs, parted ways with several studios, and consolidated its remaining developers under Activision, Blizzard,\u00a0King, and Bethesda. All of this is being done to make Xbox a profitable part of the Microsoft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":90373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90371","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\/90371"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90374,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90371\/revisions\/90374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}