BREAKING: XBOX Lays-off 3,200 & Cuts 4 STUDIOS!, Google Fined 4 Billion, GTA6 Pre-Orders $$!

1:05 - Opening 1:47 - Google antitrust 4:15 - GTA 6 pre-orders 5:27 - Blood bowl licence 8:02 - Subnautica 2 bonuses 9:38 - Mech Chameleon outsells Mario 12:28 - Cyberpunk 2077 sells 40 million 15:15 - Xbox layoffs and restructuring 44:55 - Suicide Squad devs speak of their experience

Why would anyone preorder a digital only game how pathetic 😒

According to Xbox CEO Sharma: "In a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. " So, blame the incompetence of Phil Spencer for the huge layoffs.

"BUT THE DOW!! THE DOW IS UP 50K!!!!"

Joe you really need to start putting Timestamps on your videos.

Preordering a digital only game (gta) is STUPID

No CEOs were harmed in the making of these layoffs.

Those GTA numbers are fabricated. There is no official source that says they sold 3 billion in preorders

Push back on all digital now. Gaming is gonna get turned into subscription based garbage where purchases can be removed for any reason if we don't!

We saw this coming....

Fines are not to punish large corporations. It is the government forcing them to hand over some of the spoils.

Xbox selling studios probably best outcome we could have gotten, vs them shutting them all down and sitting on bunch of might as well be dead ips

The Elder Scrolls Online, one of the largest MMO's out there belonging to the 'Flagship IP's' just had HALF it's entire team fired! So yea, it's all a bunch of bullshit to fund AI because by MS's own admission, ESO was making about 15 million per month in revenue.

It sucks but there needs be video game crash, customers have been getting fuck over massively

I literally fail to see what is bad or wrong about the Xbox layoffs. What is the alternative? Keep losing money till you have to fire EVERYONE? They didn’t shut any studios, they were very transparent, eliminated a lot of middle management which we ALL have said they should. What are we mad about?

Joe’s getting leaner, all the angry stories lately have him burning calories screaming

GenAI absolutely is a bubble. People think bubble means "this has zero value", but it just means the market is valuing the asset for more than the asset is worth. GenAI is being traded as if we're going to get to AGI, but it's looking less and less like we're going to ever hit AGI, so now we have this massively overvalued genAI. Anyone who says it's not a bubble is ignorant of financial terminology.

31:57 "Xbox CEO Asha Shawarma" 🤣🤣

Google Antitrust Fine: (1:47 - 4:13) Discussion regarding the $4.1 billion fine imposed on Google by the EU. • GTA 6 Pre-orders: (4:14 - 5:26) Insights into the massive, record-breaking pre-order revenue for Grand Theft Auto 6. • Slytherine Acquires Blood Bowl License: (5:27 - 8:01) News on Slytherine taking over the Warhammer Blood Bowl license from Nacon. • Subnautica 2 / Unknown Worlds / Krafton: (8:01 - 9:36) Update on Krafton paying the $250 million bonus to Unknown Worlds and the CEO's resignation. • Indie Game Successes: (9:37 - 12:28) Highlights including Mecha Chameleon sales (9:37 - 11:05), Sands of Salzaar (or Sands of Salty) updates (11:06 - 12:28). • Cyberpunk 2077: (12:29 - 15:03) Discussion on the 40 million sales milestone and reflections on the game's redemption arc. • Xbox Layoffs & Studio Restructuring: (15:04 - 27:46) The main segment regarding the 3,200 layoffs, the future of studios like Double Fine and Ninja Theory, and the overall impact on Xbox. • Project Eker (Halo) Cancellation: (27:47 - 30:05) Details on the cancellation of the unannounced Halo multiplayer project. • Xbox Strategy & Future Outlook: (30:06 - 44:11) Analysis of Asha Schwarma's leadership, the goal for growth by 2027, and the shift toward larger IPs. • Rocksteady & Suicide Squad: (44:12 - 50:03) Discussion on the development struggles at Rocksteady and the impact of the Suicide Squad game.

This could have been worse. Asha has to clean up Phil Spencer's mess and it's going to be messy.