Take-Two boss declines to offer advice to the new Microsoft Gaming chief, says she'll be fine on her own: 'She’s a highly accomplished executive who’s done just great without ever having met me'

Asha Sharma's elevation to CEO of Microsoft Gaming following Phil Spencer's surprise retirement caused consternation among some gamers because, well, she's not a gamer. Sharma only joined Microsoft in 2024 as president of its CoreAI product, and prior to that she was chief operating officer at Instacart and a vice president of product and engineering at Meta—a sharp contrast to Spencer, who waxed nostalgic about the games he loved as a kid when Microsoft plopped down $68.7 billion to buy Activision Blizzard.