{"id":676402,"date":"2026-05-31T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676402\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:56:08","slug":"xbox-will-adjust-its-promotional-materials-after-fans-slam-decision-to-use-rival-logos-in-its-showcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676402\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox will &#8220;adjust&#8221; its promotional materials after fans slam decision to use rival logos in its showcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox boss Asha Sharma has admitted that including competitor logos in Xbox teasers and showcase presentations is &#8220;a miss&#8221;, confirming this will be &#8220;adjusted&#8221; for future Xbox showcases.<\/p>\n<p>Talking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BwYglyND1EA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox podcast<\/a> yesterday (30th May), chief content officer and EVP, Matt Booty, stressed that the publisher valued &#8220;transparency&#8221; about the platforms its first-party games are coming to and would remained committed to that.<\/p>\n<p>ID@Xbox Presented by IGN April 2026 Showcase.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-xBC3Ot-aU\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In recent broadcasts that we&#8217;ve had, we&#8217;ve been really transparent about when a game is multi-platform,&#8221; podcast co-host, Jeff Rubenstein, said. &#8220;So, should we expect to see that transparency continuing here at Showcase?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Booty responded: &#8220;Yes, absolutely. We&#8217;ll be very clear about what platforms a game is coming to and want to continue the precedent. I think we&#8217;ve got a good system going where we make it clear in the Showcase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite Xbox&#8217;s efforts, it remains, of course, very much not industry standard to discuss where games may end up to maximise sales and FOMO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like the bare minimum expectation many had was for Xbox to really focus on their own platform at least for the time of the Showcase,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/klobrille\/status\/2060404151599710248\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> Xbox influencer, Klobrille, on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t want to see PS logos on any games at the showcase,&#8221; said another on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Seeing the feedback on logos. It was a miss, and I own it. We are talking about how we adjust for future XBOX shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ASHA (@asha_shar) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/asha_shar\/status\/2060501522556022919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Manage cookie settings<\/p>\n<p>Xbox CEO Sharma has now responsed to the hundreds of fan messages slamming Booty for his comments, taking accountability for the decision but promising the idea will be &#8220;adjusted&#8221; for futute showcases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seeing the feedback on logos. It was a miss, and I own it. We are talking about how we adjust for future Xbox shows,&#8221; she wrote on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, we reported that Xbox had been rebranded as XBOX after Sharma polled players on their preference between Xbox and its shoutier sibling, XBOX. 19,000 votes later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/xbox-is-now-xbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XBOX won with almost 65 percent of the votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/xbox-game-pass-price-cut-working-asha-sharma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft told staff that the recent decision to cut the price of Xbox Game Pass<\/a> has &#8220;seen acquisitions grow and retention improve, which is a good first step&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xbox boss Asha Sharma has admitted that including competitor logos in Xbox teasers and showcase presentations is &#8220;a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-676402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}