Xbox is on Life Support

By Real Life Fake Wizard

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The Xbox brand is dying. If this was 2008, people would have said that was a crazy claim. Today, it’s an undeniable truth. Console hardware sales are dramatically down, with the Series X/S selling only 34 million units in its lifetime. Comparatively, PlayStation 5 has sold nearly 100 million units during the same time. Game Pass subscriber numbers have stalled. The brand’s own marketing confused its most loyal customers about what Xbox even was anymore, there were many rounds of layoffs, and at the end of all the controversy, gamers have stopped trusting the platform. That’s what it is; it’s a consumer trust problem. On February 20, 2026, Microsoft installed a new CEO of its gaming division, Asha Sharma, a platform executive with no prior experience in the video game industry. We talked about this installation extensively in a video here. Well, nearly 2 months have passed since Sharma took over. And I’m here to report she's made some pretty big moves, to my surprise—which is kind of

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