Microsoft is planning major Xbox lay offs next week and also ceasing some Xbox operations in some European regions due to restructuring

[Rekkapryde]

All these cuts and Phil Spencer and his gang or charlatans are still employed

this by far. shyt is incredible.

What does this man have to do in order to get

 

[Rekkapryde]

Blade is supposedly cancelled

Bluesky

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(fukk.GIF)

 

[Rekkapryde]

Kirk McKeand (@mckkirk.bsky.social)

My last tweet was a miscommunication. I’ve been told Arkane Lyon is fine.

bsky.app

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Rekkapryde]

We've have been warning xbox nikkas for over 2 years that this was gonna happen. Xbox hardware isn't selling, first party software isn't selling due to gamepass and they drop close to 100bn on acquisition. What the fukk you think was gonna happen?

I don’t why people are surprised by perfect dark zero cancelation. The gameplay they showed look fake as fukk

shyt has been common sense forever, but

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

For those unaware, Mayles was a designer on the original Battletoads and Donkey Kong Country.

 

[Kingshango]

Give Rare back to Nintendo at this point.

 

[Mike809]

Damn , I'm hearing all type of games being cancelledd.
Perfect Dark , Everwild , Banjo , etc.

Xbots were really enjjoying their wedding-like trance.

 

[Legal]

This thread is crazy. The "Microsoft saved jobs by buying Activision" is especially nonsensical to me.

A quick Google search suggests Activision's headcount was about 13,000 in 2023 when the deal closed. Between this round of layoffs and the ones from a few months ago, Microsoft has laid off about 15,000 people this year alone. I fail to see how this ended up being an overall net positive. shyt is just a shell game of where the layoffs are coming from at this point.

shyt is depressing, and there's nothing to celebrate here.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

This thread is crazy. The "Microsoft saved jobs by buying Activision" is especially nonsensical to me.

A quick Google search suggests Activision's headcount was about 13,000 in 2023 when the deal closed. Between this round of layoffs and the ones from a few months ago, Microsoft has laid off about 15,000 people this year alone. I fail to see how this ended up being an overall net positive. shyt is just a shell game of where she layoffs are coming from at this point.

shyt is depressing, and there's nothing to celebrate here.

Thats the problem with mass consolidation like this because even a small 4% cut across all of microsoft is a 9000 jobs losses.

 

[Prince Akeem]

All these cuts and Phil Spencer and his gang of charlatans are still employed

Remember when people were treating him like gaming's savior a few years ago?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

This thread is crazy. The "Microsoft saved jobs by buying Activision" is especially nonsensical to me.

A quick Google search suggests Activision's headcount was about 13,000 in 2023 when the deal closed. Between this round of layoffs and the ones from a few months ago, Microsoft has laid off about 15,000 people this year alone. I fail to see how this ended up being an overall net positive. shyt is just a shell game of where she layoffs are coming from at this point.

shyt is depressing, and there's nothing to celebrate here.

You are conflating microsoft and xbox here. Microsoft has laid off 15,000 people, but they are also always hiring so their total employees have still been increasing over time.

Microsoft is absolutely huge. They employ anywhere from 230k to 250k employees around the world.

In that context 15,000 people is not a large percentage of their employee base on top of the fact that they are still always hiring and by this time next year they will probably have more total employees than they did in 2023-24.

Companies always reposition, and all tech companies have been making the same or similar moves as of late.

It’s just for whatever reason when it comes to xbox people throw all context out the window and everything is some visceral overreaction for console wars points.

For context sony has actually lost a huge percentage of its employee base over the last 15 years or so, but for some reason xbox gets the bad reputation for layoffs and closures.

Sony: Number of Employees 2010-2025 | SONY | MacroTrends

<ul style='margin-top:10px;'> <li>Sony total number of employees in 2024 was <strong>113,000</strong>, a <strong>0% decline</strong> from 2023.</li> <li>Sony total number of employees in 2023 was <strong>113,000</strong>, a <strong>3.76% increase</strong> from 2022.</li> <li>Sony...

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Microsoft: Number of Employees 2011-2025 | MSFT

Interactive chart of Microsoft (MSFT) annual worldwide employee count from 2011 to 2025. <ul style='margin-top:10px;'> <li>Microsoft total number of employees in 2025 was <strong>228,000</strong>, a <strong>0% decline</strong> from 2024.</li> <li>Microsoft total number of...

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Now dudes gone get on here and say i’m spinning and stanning, but the truth is the truth.

A lot of you are stuck in the sony stan information bubble.

Reality doesn’t hold up to what you think you know about any of this

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Remember when people were treating him like gaming's savior a few years ago?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

nikkas never learn, calling a ceo “uncle” and acting like he was their friend on Xbox live

TBF though, I don’t really blame them too much. xbox was on its last legs around 2017-2020 so it was easy to sell that snake oil to them. They were truly looking for the light

 

[The Mad Titan]

Don't do this like we didn't have the Concord thread less than a year ago. Same with Marathon.

The poor MS schtick is getting old.

You can compare the first 10 pages of that Concord thread to this one and it's completely different, and that continues throughout the thread.

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MS has been having issues since the end of the 360 era. This isn't a AAA bubble bursting argument, it's that MS has been a letdown for a minute.

Ok breh, how many next generation amazing big budget single player triple A games have you played in the last 5 years?


You probably can count them on one hand maybe 2.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Naw, Xbox is



Concord is one game, xbox is an entire platform

still true