{"id":547139,"date":"2026-04-23T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547139\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:48:08","slug":"microsofts-new-xbox-chief-is-reevaluating-exclusive-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547139\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s new Xbox chief is \u2018reevaluating\u2019 exclusive games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Xbox CEO Asha Sharma held an all-hands meeting this morning and laid out her strategy for a \u201creturn of Xbox\u201d with employees. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/917485\/microsoft-return-of-xbox-no-more-microsoft-gaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rebranding Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox<\/a> was part of the agenda, Sharma also revealed that Xbox is looking into \u201creevaluating\u201d Xbox exclusive games and windowed releases of titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It\u2019s a hot topic for Xbox fans, who were shocked when Microsoft decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/2\/15\/24073691\/microsoft-xbox-games-ps5-nintendo-switch-exclusivity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">start porting games over to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch<\/a>, but there\u2019s no firm commitment on a return to Xbox exclusives just yet. \u201cAlong the way, we will reevaluate our approach to exclusivity, windowing, and AI, and share more as we learn and decide,\u201d says Sharma and Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty in a joint memo to employees today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">There\u2019s no firm commitment because it will be difficult to reverse a decision to port games to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, largely because of the revenue that titles like Forza Horizon 5 have brought in. Microsoft could consider keeping its own first-party games exclusive to Xbox and PC for a set period of time, though. Forza Horizon 6 could be a good test of this approach, given it debuts on Xbox and PC first and PS5 later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The joint memo also discusses Xbox\u2019s \u201cmaster plan\u201d and about \u201chonest about where we are.\u201d Microsoft\u2019s new \u201cnorth star\u201d for Xbox progress is now daily active players, and the priorities are hardware, content, experiences, and services. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/917689\/microsoft-xbox-gaming-future-memo-asha-sharma-matt-booty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read the full memo here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xbox CEO Asha Sharma held an all-hands meeting this morning and laid out her strategy for a \u201creturn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1345,59,696,1058,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-exclusive","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-microsoft","11":"tag-report","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}