The Asha Sharma Memo: The End of the Xbox We Knew
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Published Jun 11, 2026 • Duration: 00:00
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Xbox is triggering a massive panic reset. Following an internal "Next 100 Days" memo co-signed by new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Matt Booty, major reports from Bloomberg and The Verge have confirmed that a massive wave of Xbox layoffs is officially locked in for July, right after Microsoft closes its fiscal year on June 30. The internal numbers driving this restructuring are catastrophic: Xbox’s profit margin (accountability margin) has cratered to just 3%.
Even worse? The leaked memo reveals that over the past five years, Microsoft burned through over $20 billion on content, platform, and hardware subsidies... only for annual revenue to decline by nearly half a billion dollars (excluding Activision Blizzard King). Furthermore, Xbox is facing a severe hardware component crisis, with console storage and memory costs projected to spike to over 5x previous levels by the 2027 holiday season. This corporate over-extension means everything is on the table: massive cuts to marketing budgets, impending studio closures, and a complete rebuild of the Xbox platform architecture. In this stream breakdown, we look at what this means for the future of Xbox Game Studios. Will mid-sized studios like Obsidian, Double Fine, or Compulsion survive? What happens to Game Pass, and why did Xbox reportedly cancel a PS5 version of Gears of War: E-Day to pivot back to console exclusivity? Let's dive into the data.
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Even worse? The leaked memo reveals that over the past five years, Microsoft burned through over $20 billion on content, platform, and hardware subsidies... only for annual revenue to decline by nearly half a billion dollars (excluding Activision Blizzard King). Furthermore, Xbox is facing a severe hardware component crisis, with console storage and memory costs projected to spike to over 5x previous levels by the 2027 holiday season. This corporate over-extension means everything is on the table: massive cuts to marketing budgets, impending studio closures, and a complete rebuild of the Xbox platform architecture. In this stream breakdown, we look at what this means for the future of Xbox Game Studios. Will mid-sized studios like Obsidian, Double Fine, or Compulsion survive? What happens to Game Pass, and why did Xbox reportedly cancel a PS5 version of Gears of War: E-Day to pivot back to console exclusivity? Let's dive into the data.
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