{"id":1529158,"date":"2026-03-17T22:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Y4Ch7ro7upL6gsw7EEFy9M"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:02:34","slug":"take-two-boss-declines-to-offer-advice-to-the-new-microsoft-gaming-chief-says-shell-be-fine-on-her-own-shes-a-highly-accomplished-executive-whos-done-just-great-without-ever-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/take-two-boss-declines-to-offer-advice-to-the-new-microsoft-gaming-chief-says-shell-be-fine-on-her-own-shes-a-highly-accomplished-executive-whos-done-just-great-without-ever-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two boss declines to offer advice to the new Microsoft Gaming chief, says she&#8217;ll be fine on her own: &#8216;She\u2019s a highly accomplished executive who\u2019s done just great without ever having met me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Asha Sharma&#8217;s elevation to CEO of Microsoft Gaming following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/xbox-boss-phil-spencer-is-retiring-and-his-replacement-is-an-ai-executive-who-joined-microsoft-in-2024\/\">Phil Spencer&#8217;s surprise retirement<\/a> caused consternation among some gamers because, well, she&#8217;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\u2014a sharp contrast to Spencer, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/phil-spencer-wants-to-bring-back-the-activision-blizzard-games-he-loved-as-a-kid\/\">waxed nostalgic<\/a> about the games he loved as a kid when Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/microsoft-will-acquire-activision-blizzard\/\">plopped down $68.7 billion<\/a> to buy Activision Blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>One person who says he&#8217;s not concerned, though, is Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick. Asked during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/p\/take-two-ceo-interview-the-notion\" target=\"_blank\">The Game Business<\/a> what he thinks Sharma should be focused on, Zelnick, who&#8217;s been heading up Take-Two for nearly 20 years now, brushed off the idea entirely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think the newly appointed head of Xbox needs any advice from me,&#8221; Zelnick said. &#8220;She\u2019s a highly accomplished executive who\u2019s done just great without ever having met me. I\u2019m going to bet on her continuing to do great. Moreover, I have to focus on myself doing better, before I talk about other CEOs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zelnick himself was not a &#8216;games guy&#8217; when he took over Take-Two. He began his career at Columbia Pictures, served as president of 20th Century Fox and then BMG, and took the wheel at Take-Two by way of his private equity investment firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/zmclp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZMC<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In the years since, Take-Two became one of the biggest publishers in the business, and is right now the only one in the West that isn&#8217;t either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/ubisoft-ceo-confirms-new-assassins-creed-and-far-cry-games-are-coming-denies-that-putting-his-son-in-charge-of-them-was-nepotism\/\">on life support<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/electronic-arts-shareholders-vote-overwhelmingly-in-favor-of-saudi-led-takeover\/\">hoovered up<\/a> by an even bigger-money entity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I first became President of Fox, I was just responsible for the business side. My boss was the chairman, Joe Roth, and he was responsible for the creative side,&#8221; Zelnick said. &#8220;If I did my job well running the business, and Joe did his job poorly running the creative, we would fail. If he did his job well, and I did my job poorly, we would succeed. And if we both did our jobs well, we would succeed mightily. And we did, thankfully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the truth is that hits cure all ills. In the absence of making hits, you won\u2019t have a successful entertainment business. That\u2019s the thing to focus on. At Take-Two, we try to do all of the above. We try to run an amazing creative enterprise, and we try to run a highly rational, highly effective business enterprise. Sometimes we get it wrong, but that\u2019s what we try to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zelnick&#8217;s insistence to the contrary notwithstanding, I feel like I sense a small undercurrent of advice in there\u2014and yes, you could argue that &#8216;make hit games&#8217; is easy to say when you&#8217;re the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/grand-theft-auto-6\/\">Grand Theft Auto<\/a> company, but it&#8217;s an approach Zelnick seems to take seriously. Take-Two seemed to be aiming for more high-minded things when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/take-two-launches-high-end-indie-label-private-division\/\">launched the Private Division label<\/a> in 2017, but seven years later it offloaded the whole thing because, as Zelnick said at the time, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/take-two-has-sold-private-division-to-an-unnamed-buyer-we-are-top-ten-hit-makers-around-here-and-private-division-wasnt-making-them\/\">We are top-ten hit makers around here<\/a>,&#8221; and the indie-focused Private Division simply didn&#8217;t fit into that calculus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"22b6a35a-880e-40c6-88b2-71b63a0783d8\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/take-two-boss-declines-to-offer-advice-to-the-new-microsoft-gaming-chief-says-shell-be-fine-on-her-own-shes-a-highly-accomplished-executive-whos-done-just-great-without-ever-hav.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"22b6a35a-880e-40c6-88b2-71b63a0783d8\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/take-two-boss-declines-to-offer-advice-to-the-new-microsoft-gaming-chief-says-shell-be-fine-on-her-own-shes-a-highly-accomplished-executive-whos-done-just-great-without-ever-having-met-me\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asha Sharma&#8217;s elevation to CEO of Microsoft Gaming following Phil Spencer&#8217;s surprise retirement caused consternation among some gamers because, well, she&#8217;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\u2014a 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. One person who says he&#8217;s not concerned, though, is Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick. Asked during an interview with The Game Business what he thinks Sharma should be focused on, Zelnick, who&#8217;s been heading up Take-Two for nearly 20 years now, brushed off&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/take-two-boss-declines-to-offer-advice-to-the-new-microsoft-gaming-chief-says-shell-be-fine-on-her-own-shes-a-highly-accomplished-executive-whos-done-just-great-without-ever-ha\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1529159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[5491],"class_list":["post-1529158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-gaming-industry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ 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