{"id":90705,"date":"2026-10-06T15:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90705"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:41:53","slug":"xbox-was-at-an-all-time-low-but-is-now-growing-again-ceo-says-without-providing-any-real-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90705","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Was At An \u201cAll Time Low,\u201d But Is Now Growing Again CEO Says Without Providing Any Real Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a town hall meeting today, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma spoke to staff to help reassure them following mass layoffs and studio closures related to the &#8220;reset&#8221; of the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/gaming\/xbox\/xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-speaks-at-internal-town-hall-we-must-strengthen-for-cxbox-series-x-s-xbox-helix-and-xbox-game-pass\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/gaming\/xbox\/xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-speaks-at-internal-town-hall-we-must-strengthen-for-cxbox-series-x-s-xbox-helix-and-xbox-game-pass\">Windows Central reports <\/a>that Sharma told staff that Xbox is &#8220;making the right decisions&#8221; and that &#8220;after an all time low, we&#8217;ve started to return to growth,&#8221; though she did not share any specifics. She added that Gears of War: E-Day, Minecraft Dungeons 2, and World of Warcraft: Forever had &#8220;strong&#8221; starts, though she did not share any specifics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharma said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve started to return to growth, more than 2 to 3 times what we were, and we expect that continue.&#8221; She did not share any specifics about what &#8220;2 to 3 times&#8221; actually means, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharma also told staff that Xbox&#8217;s &#8220;Gen-10&#8221; platform&#8211;AKA Project Helix&#8211;will be, as rumored, a &#8220;family of devices&#8221; because &#8220;there is no one device that fits all.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said it&#8217;s important for Xbox to have a &#8220;great console first,&#8221; but there will also be options for players who are &#8220;on the go.&#8221; Sharma went on to say that Microsoft will manufacture some of these devices, and others Microsoft will find partners for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;So, we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a town hall meeting today, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma spoke to staff to help reassure them following mass layoffs and studio closures related to the &#8220;reset&#8221; of the business. Windows Central reports that Sharma told staff that Xbox is &#8220;making the right decisions&#8221; and that &#8220;after an all time low, we&#8217;ve started to return&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":90707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90705","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\/90705"}],"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=90705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90708,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90705\/revisions\/90708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}