The recent shuffle of Xbox leadership, which saw longtime Microsoft gaming CEO Phil Spencer be replaced by CoreAI executive Asha Sharma, sparked some understandably dramatic reactions. Notably, original Xbox co-founder and console designer Seamus Blackley predicted the shake-up will herald the absolute end of Xbox as a whole, but former Xbox boss Peter Moore hopes things aren’t quite so drastic.
Moore, who oversaw the Xbox label for Microsoft from 2003 to 2007, sat down with GamesBeat to give his take on the restructuring, which included the sudden departure of president and presumed Spencer replacement Sarah Bond. Specifically, he confirmed that he’d seen Blackley’s comments and said,
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