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Adam Hales

Xbox is refocusing on console spending that makes up 80% of its business — while stepping away from smaller game studios

An official wallpaper of Xbox consoles against a galactic background.

CEO Asha Sharma has discussed the major restructuring currently underway at Xbox in a new interview with Fortune. It could be painful to watch, and even more so for those affected by the layoffs, but it was presumably all necessary. I'm still a bit shell-shocked that some Xbox studios reportedly had as many as 14 layers of management, an absurd number that Sharma is now capping at no more than five.

Sharma told Fortune: "In order to grow, we made a bunch of bets … and as we did that, we inherently didn't focus on the core business… The number one measure of your strategy is what you put your resources behind, and we simply spread ourselves too thin."

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