A continued decline in Xbox's console hardware revenue has spurred changes by new CEO Asha Sharma in a continuation of a large-scale turnover at the company this year.
Sharma is filling out Xbox leadership with several former members of Microsoft's CoreAI team (where Sharma originated from within the company), according to a memo obtained by CNBC today. What this means is that a lot of the head honchos involved at the division formerly known as Microsoft Gaming all now have a large amount of expertise in artificial intelligence, in one way or another.
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"We need to evolve how we work and how we are organized across our platform," Sharma wrote in the memo. "Right now, it is too hard to ship impact quickly. We spend too much time inward instead of with the community, and we lack the depth we need in some of the fundamentals."
According to the memo, this new Xbox leadership team will consist of:
Jared Palmer, VP of Engineering (former CoreAI VP of Product)
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