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scott_wtoday at 4:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

Just looking at Sharma’s history, she rejoined MS in 2024. Xbox was struggling long before that, so I don’t see how anyone can blame Sharma for the past 10 years…


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WorldMakertoday at 4:16 PM

Xbox has been profitable almost continuously since a few years into the Xbox 360. It's fascinating how "profitable but low margins" equates to "struggling" to so many.

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WhereIsTheTruthtoday at 5:21 PM

Ratio of consoles sold Xbox vs PS5 was 1:3 before that, after that it fell in the 1:10 territories (december 2025)

Using Phil as a scapegoat and Sharma as the savior is disingenuous.. and is honestly pretty consistent with how i view Microslop: opportunists, tasteless, and visionless executives, shareholders and fanboys

The fall of Xbox started before the launch of thier current gen:

- HW: they announced 2 SKUs, with polar opposite performance profiles

- SW: their system sellers got delayed to couple years

The reset needs to happen at the highest executive order, not at the lowest, workers implement whatever project was greenlit

People chose PS5/Switch over Xbox (it now sells 3x less than Switch 1, wich is a previous gen console), people see through the lies of the media

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butliketoday at 4:28 PM

You can blame her for the last 10 years because she's CEO _now_. That's what you do. You blame the head of the organization for the organization's problems.

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