Kojima Poses With Xbox Chief Asha Sharma As She Visits Kojima Productions
Sharma has been resetting Xbox's business and cutting costs, so her sitting down with Kojima is worth reading as a check on whether the projects he has announced with the company stay on track.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Asha Sharma, who leads Microsoft's Xbox division, visited Kojima Productions in Japan and appeared in a photo with Hideo Kojima that he posted to social media. Sharma took over the Xbox division after Phil Spencer, who had led it since 2014. Game Spark notes the visit could involve discussion of Kojima's projects PHYSINT and OD, both announced without release dates.
Sharma took the Xbox division over in February 2026, succeeding Phil Spencer, and has since restructured Game Pass, cut staff, and spun studios out. She has also spent the year talking to fans directly on X, where she reversed a policy about naming other companies' platforms at Xbox events and changed the brand's notation to XBOX after a survey.
Kojima's projects with Xbox, PHYSINT and OD, remain announced without release dates. The photo is the first public sign of the two in the same room. Kojima Productions has not commented on what was discussed.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.