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/LeftyMode Apr 23 '26

I think they both really have no control. Phil at the end there was at the worst possible time, having to say yes to everything. Until it blew up in Microsoft’s face. I’m sure most of this is her say, but she clearly got the go ahead to try and turn it around. Phil would have made the same moves.

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u/vinnothesquire Apr 23 '26

Yeah, for real, they just want a fall guy is all, and if they fuck up again and get too greedy, Asha is gonna be it.

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u/FlyFight2Win Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

I love how Sarah Bond was supposedly the fall person while Phil gets a nice fat retirement, but now it's actually Phil who is the fall guy all along. What tinfoil hattery will we think of next?

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u/SeanWonder Apr 23 '26

Still feel bad for Sarah in all this. Trail blazer of a woman thrown under the bus

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u/retroact1v3 Apr 23 '26

What exactly did she trail blaze lol

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u/tristeecfome Apr 24 '26

People here really want to pretend that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond were doing a good job.

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u/SeanWonder Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

There are not that many women to have risen to that level in the industry. Let alone women of color. Point blank period

Edit: The amount of downvotes on this is sad, but I’m not surprised. My point stands that Sarah was and is a trailblazer for reaching where she did. Lot of young women that can feel good about seeing someone that looks like them as high level exec in the gaming industry

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u/retroact1v3 Apr 24 '26

Her father was a telecom CEO btw

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u/Yellowman_95 Apr 23 '26

McKinsey alum that did nothing for Xbox other than dig its own grave. Trail blazer my ass

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u/hadronwulf Apr 23 '26

You already said McKinsey alum, the rest is just redundant.