
Earlier this week, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma took to social media to poll fans on the branding of the word "Xbox" — she wanted to know whether people preferred the current version, or whether they wanted to see it in all capitals.
Her tweet racked up 2.1 million views, although only 19,000+ people actually ended up voting. The final results were significantly in favour of the all caps version, with just under 65% of fans choosing this option:
Following this, the official Xbox Twitter/X account rebranded to "XBOX" at the end of the week, and Sharma made sure to highlight it on her account.
Here's what the CEO shared on Friday:
Interestingly, the folks over at The Verge contacted Microsoft for comment about this, and were simply referred to Asha's tweet. They're also of the belief that "Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding Xbox to XBOX".
Does it actually matter for the majority of us? Not really. However, it might be yet another part of Asha Sharma's strategy to return Xbox to its roots — it wasn't uncommon to see Xbox stylised in all caps back in the OG era, not to mention in the vast majority of Xbox logos over the years.
At the very least, it shows that the CEO is listening to the fans on this topic, taking their feedback from the poll and implementing it within just a couple of days. We'll have to wait and see whether it's a wide-ranging rebrand or whether the all-capitals will be reserved for just specific instances, but either way, we're curious to hear what you think about the change down in the poll and comments below.
What did you vote in the poll? Does it really matter how Xbox is stylised? Tell us in the comments.





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I feel Xbox has been changing extremely rapidly lately. Did it really take for a change in a CEO for all of this to happen? Because I find that hard to believe personally. This all have to had been in talks for a long while beforehand… right?
Is this the third rebrand now? Just pivot to pc and have done with it 🙈
It's always been capitals in my mind

@Handy_Man I believe it is her work. It makes no sense for Phil team having all this positive great stuff planed and simply retire earlier than expected and not even be part of the 25 years celebrations. This is for sure Asha's doing.
Our right to permanently own and control that which we shell out $60, $70, $80 or more for is hanging by a thread. Games which could ship complete are instead shipping as blank discs in a case which are nothing more than download codes and people are concerned whether the brand name uses all caps or not? Get your priorities straight, people.
Who knew it was this easy to build goodwill with the few remaining Xbox fans and certainly a legion of astroturfing bots. She should change the font on the sticker inside the controller battery cover. 3 million likes easily.
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