{"id":415737,"date":"2026-04-24T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:00:10","slug":"game-file-x-xboxs-asha-sharma-and-matt-booty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415737\/","title":{"rendered":"Game File x Xbox&#8217;s Asha Sharma and Matt Booty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!KSzA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecf24621-bd9c-4698-9152-a6a2d10f01ac_3000x1688.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/ecf24621-bd9c-4698-9152-a6a2d10f01ac_3000.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"819\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/ecf24621-bd9c-4698-9152-a6a2d10f01ac_3000x1688.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:3860402,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.gamefile.news\/i\/195339245?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecf24621-bd9c-4698-9152-a6a2d10f01ac_3000x1688.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m trying something different today: offering all Game File readers a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefile.news\/p\/xbox-asha-sharma-matt-booty-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free write-up of a big interview<\/a>, while also offering the interview transcript to paying readers.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get the essence of my conversation with new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty, with context around their comments, check out the free piece. If you want more depth, this transcript is for you. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve lightly edited the conversation for clarity and flow, but you\u2019ll still get plenty of Sharma and Booty\u2019s thoughts, my questions, and a good sense of how our conversation progressed\u2014complete with follow-ups, some conversational detours, and the best quotes that made it into the free piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m trying something different today: offering all Game File readers a free write-up of a big interview, while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-415737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}