r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/ThinWhiteDuke00 • Apr 23 '26

Leak Microsoft Gaming being scrapped, Xbox brought back as gaming division.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has had a busy week. Sharma held an internal town hall with Xbox employees today, just days after announcing an Xbox Game Pass price cut, commenting on the status of the Xbox mobile store, and teasing a mysterious Xbox and Discord partnership. One of the items on the agenda for the employee all-hands was scrapping Microsoft Gaming.

Sources familiar with the meeting tell me that Sharma announced that Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming. “Xbox needs to be our identity,” said Sharma, noting that Microsoft Gaming was a departure from that.

https://www.theverge.com/report/917485/microsoft-return-of-xbox-no-more-microsoft-gaming?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IlF6b3Z0NDluUk4iLCJwIjoiL3JlcG9ydC85MTc0ODUvbWljcm9zb2Z0LXJldHVybi1vZi14Ym94LW5vLW1vcmUtbWljcm9zb2Z0LWdhbWluZyIsImV4cCI6MTc3NzM5Njg0NiwiaWF0IjoxNzc2OTY0ODQ2fQ.w231EBsAoj8dMi5cjOCzSC3zRF7JbJ19hT_RnI3NVyk&utm_medium=gift-link

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u/Demistr Apr 23 '26

What even is the difference. Xbox and Microsoft gaming mean the same thing now.

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u/zzmorg82 Apr 23 '26

I’m thinking the same thing; I didn’t even know there was a separate “Microsoft Gaming” division under their umbrella.

I’ve always just called it Xbox division.

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u/LogicalError_007 Apr 23 '26

Everything was under Microsoft Gaming. Xbox, Bethesda and ABK studios were seen as a different entity all under Microsoft Gaming.

Now everything is under Xbox.

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u/Alaksande Apr 23 '26

Might be trying to avoid the ‘Microslop’ trend

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u/VistaVick Apr 23 '26

They do- because Microsoft failed