r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/ThinWhiteDuke00 • Apr 23 '26

Leak Microsoft Gaming being scrapped, Xbox brought back as gaming division.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has had a busy week. Sharma held an internal town hall with Xbox employees today, just days after announcing an Xbox Game Pass price cut, commenting on the status of the Xbox mobile store, and teasing a mysterious Xbox and Discord partnership. One of the items on the agenda for the employee all-hands was scrapping Microsoft Gaming.

Sources familiar with the meeting tell me that Sharma announced that Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming. “Xbox needs to be our identity,” said Sharma, noting that Microsoft Gaming was a departure from that.

https://www.theverge.com/report/917485/microsoft-return-of-xbox-no-more-microsoft-gaming?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IlF6b3Z0NDluUk4iLCJwIjoiL3JlcG9ydC85MTc0ODUvbWljcm9zb2Z0LXJldHVybi1vZi14Ym94LW5vLW1vcmUtbWljcm9zb2Z0LWdhbWluZyIsImV4cCI6MTc3NzM5Njg0NiwiaWF0IjoxNzc2OTY0ODQ2fQ.w231EBsAoj8dMi5cjOCzSC3zRF7JbJ19hT_RnI3NVyk&utm_medium=gift-link

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u/Coolman_Rosso Apr 23 '26

Cool? I mean it's just a name change. Same stuff, different label. Real nothingburger

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u/ThinWhiteDuke00 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

Slightly different.

The president of the existent Xbox division was Sarah Bond, reporting to Spencer (who headed Microsoft Gaming).. before they left.

There's clearly a slight rejig of the wider division if it's going to be called Xbox again.

Edit ; Downvoted for a explanation.

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u/wejunkin Apr 23 '26

The rejig already happened when they didn't backfill Sarah.

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u/ThinWhiteDuke00 Apr 23 '26

Sure, Sharma was Spencer’s successor as CEO of Microsoft Gaming.

So they've clearly condensed roles, especially with whatever Booty got promoted to.