Internet Reacts to Major Xbox Shakeup

After over 20 years at Xbox, Phil Spencer, the face of the brand for more than a decade, has announced he’s retiring from the company. Sarah Bond, the president at Xbox, is also out, and Asha Sharma, the president of Microsoft’s CoreAI product, is taking over as CEO of Microsoft Gaming.

Sharma said in her initial email to employees that her goal was not to flood the Xbox ecosystem with "soulless AI slop." Microsoft has been notoriously pushing for AI integration in its workflow. The internet is looking back on his tenure at the company, speculating about whether or not he and Bond were forced out of their leadership positions, and wondering what all this means for the future of Xbox.

Some pointed out that the only ms/Xbox letter mentioning Sarah Bond is Phil’s, and that she didn’t release a statement, a detail that suggested the transition was messy as hell; one post summed it up as "Bush league shit." Reactions ran from grief to praise and dark humor.

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