Gamerscore is a useless metric and doesn’t prove how much of a “gamer” a person is. I had a low gamerscore back in the X360 days because I played few titles per year, but I would play them for countless hours for fun and not to chase fake internet points. Add to that the hours spent on emulators and other platforms with no achievement, and it’s no wonder I never cracked 100,000 until, years later, Covid and GamePass let me play more games than I usually do (I’ve since jumped to PC, so my gamerscore hasn’t increased since then). Heck, I have friends who only have a few thousand fake points because they have spent thousand of hours on the same few games, while I usually hop from game to game as I chase different experiences.

Even if the above wasn’t true, I fully expect someone who has a real job to have less time to devolve to gaming, which means less gamerscore. I don’t want Microsoft (or any company, really) run by sweaty neckbeards who spend more hours in their man-cave than the outside world. I want those companies to be run by competent people who understand and care about the gaming industry. Which is not to say that the ex-AI exec cares about any of that stuff, but her lack of gamerscore doesn’t mean anything.

Sharma having no gamerscore is not the problem. The problem is her not having any gaming background and having been cherry-picked by Nadella because she was an AI exec. Xbox desperately needs new blood and a bold vision to resurrect their dying brand, but I doubt she’s the one who’ll save the day. I’ll be more than happy if she proves me wrong a few years from now, though.