Xbox's Phil Spencer has announced in an internal email to staff that Microsoft will lay off approximately 650 people from its gaming team.
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Microsoft to Lay Off 650 More Employees at Xbox
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PenniacGiant
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Gaming industry is rough these days for jobs. Damn.
Mandella_Effect
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oof
From the numbers I have, we're at roughly 12,712 jobs lost across over 135 companies this year alone. It's absurd
Dangerman1337
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Sucks to all the people being laid off :/. Even if not game development a lot of support services are going to get even worse.
Hythlodaeus
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Really need to start shaming these companies in a way that matters - financially. I wish a feasible amount of people would protest with their wallets over things like this.
SinfulGenius
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The ftc is probably yelling "we told you so"
SleepyAgent
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The ugly side of the greedy push to secure CoD for Game Pass.
Xbox were able to fly relatively unbothered by Microsoft as a whole, but their spending habits over the last few years of buying up so many properties has basically ensured that Microsoft are now fully paying attention.
I suspected that there'd be a human cost, because how does Xbox justify spending $75.4 billion dollars and then needing to pay the staff that work at these companies on top of this.
Nothing but IP mining.
Xbox were able to fly relatively unbothered by Microsoft as a whole, but their spending habits over the last few years of buying up so many properties has basically ensured that Microsoft are now fully paying attention.
I suspected that there'd be a human cost, because how does Xbox justify spending $75.4 billion dollars and then needing to pay the staff that work at these companies on top of this.
Nothing but IP mining.
bruhlmao
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A bit more than that. Xbox would ahve been axed sooner or later but phil spencer untarruraly tried to make it valuable buy buying a bunch of studios making gaming a more important part of microsoft.
Spencer: Microsoft almost abandoned Xbox brand after the Xbox One launch
Splintered management, poor sales led to a question: “Do we go forward with Xbox?”
arstechnica.com
Infographic: Microsoft's Growing Gaming Ambitions
This chart shows Microsoft's gaming revenue since 2010.
www.statista.com
The revenue they make from xbox now is high, it is their 3rd highest division at this point hogher than windows 11. Windows. Man windows.
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Microsoft’s gaming revenues overtake Windows thanks to Activision Blizzard
Microsoft’s devices revenue is down once again.
www.theverge.com
Xbox as a serivce was not "Xbox were able to fly relatively unbothered by Microsoft as a whole", it was always at the risk of getting canned after the xbox one, phil spencer just convinced sataya to not shut it all down, which I think sataya liked in the end. I'm guessing they thought the best way to run xbox was to turn it onto a service like their other products not hardware.
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GiGAHEART
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What I don't get is whenever MS acquires a studio i.e. Rare, Bethesda, Activision, etc. why do they fire people?
Shouldn't it be the opposite? That they gotta need more humann resources so they can make new games with their now-extensive list of acquired IPs?
Either way this is not positive news at all especially to those who are directly affected by the layoffs.
Shouldn't it be the opposite? That they gotta need more humann resources so they can make new games with their now-extensive list of acquired IPs?
Either way this is not positive news at all especially to those who are directly affected by the layoffs.