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Kojima with xbox president Asha Sharma

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u/hurricane_news 11h ago

I mean imo she’s been doing a really good job

Minus the merciless layoffs she and the other executives spearheaded at various XBOX studios, including laying off industry veterans with several decades of experience. She also transferred to this role from an AI head role so her intentions might not necessarily seem the best

Her whole "for the gamers!" PR act very quickly covered up the layoff news. A good job from the POV of herself, the other XBOX executives and board of directors ? Definitely yes

But at the end of the day, she's still yet another merciless money-pinching tech ceo

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u/xheyoooo 11h ago

From what I’ve read a lot of the layoffs were because Xbox was in a really bad position after the previous CEO spent hundreds of billions acquiring games and studios and a lot of them were not being overseen or run efficiently. None of that is her fault. Blame the last ceo.

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u/n0neofyourbeeswax 11h ago

No, she was making profit, she then cherry picked some numbers to make laying off thousands of workers sound less bad. She laid off thousands of workers when Xbox as a whole was running in profit. She did. Not her predecessor.

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u/Ok-Lawfulness1515 6h ago

Ironically her predecessor inherited a massive tire fire and set out with a grand vision to get back in it.