Xbox has announced massive layoffs and studio spinoffs as a drastic cost-cutting effort. Let's talk about it. ~~SOURCES~~ https://www.theverge.com/news/961546/xbox-layoffs-studio-sales-2026 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-06/microsoft-s-xbox-to-cut-3-200-jobs-divest-five-studios-in-major-overhaul
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Why the hell are there so many employees at Xbox and yet so little first party games for the past 13yrs?
CEO: I take full responsibily The responsibily: a fat fucking bonus at the end of the year.
Goodbye Consoles , Hello PC
This is why Microsoft and other major corporations need to stop buying all of these individual small studios. If you're not going to keep them open, then don't buy them.
Time to break up monopolies!
"Don't shoot! Let 'em burn!!" -Unnamed Soldier, Saving Private Ryan
Xbox and Playstation are competing for the hold my beer trophy
If Arkane Studios made Dishonored 3 instead...
The purchase of Activision was the Harambe moment of Microsoft
Wesley Snipes really told us "only ever gonna be 1 Blade" 😅😢
Fallout in the thumbnail. If I got clickbaited, ya got me.
As cold it sounds microsoft and Xbox walked happily into this problem. The games have been failing hard and fans have been open and vocal about why. They never listened for years and years. These games often costing tens of millions of dollars and than just dont make any money
So sick of the ‘I know this is painful’ BS from leadership. No you don’t, you’re fine.
Happy Late 4th of July Jake Baldino and Falcon! 🎆
Gaming industry need to crash and reborn again.
Sega, if there was ever a time for a Dreamcast 2…
ugh can someone think of Microsoft? they aren’t making enough profit
Changes this drastic suggest that for at least the last 10 years, Xbox has been horribly mismanaged.
Microsoft has put soo much money into AI, it needs the XBOX layoffs just to continue this stupidity.
The industry went through a boom cycle and now it's busting. The correction unfortunately was coming a long way out.