Xbox’s bold plan for the future sounds nearly impossible ^46.4%

The Verge - By Andrew Webster - 7/7/2026, 12:00 PM

Biased Writer Voice 35% - Negativity Bias 32.9% - Pessimism Bias 32.3%

It’s another bad week for the video game industry. Microsoft outlined a series of layoffs on Monday that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma described as “the most significant restructure in Xbox history.” But buried in Sharma’s memo was a curiously optimistic statement: “I want Xbox to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion... more