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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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.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.