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

[Captain Crunch]

@PS5 Pro @MeachTheMonster @The Mad Titan

With the cancellation of Perfect Dark, yall gon have to take the L. MS is dead, I’m willing to bet Compulsion will be closed next.

Charge it to the game and join former Stan’s like @Leasy on the pc side

 

[levitate]

Shambles!

 

[gurf]

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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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.

Missed the point.

The whole Xbox One Era was ripe with missteps.

And the reason the Concord thread was different is because we were all shytting on the game. No one was in there playing defense for Sony. They fukked up with the game and we were there to say why. Not that "Sony is doing better than ever"

The only reason this post is booming is that Xbots are in here defending this shyt and acting like this was the plan all along.

Edit: Returnal, BG3, Spider Man 2, Cyberpunk, Last of Us 2, GOW Ragnarök, Elden Ring, do I need to continue?

 

[Diondon]

This looked promising
What is our third party publisher doing?

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

shyt has been common sense forever, but

Brehs will fight tooth and nail, just so they can be right. Even when they're wrong

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Meach and Titan only exist in these threads to create noise. they’re not saying nothing

they’ll just keep going back and forth with Sonytoo shyt

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Legal]

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

Nope, I'm looking at it from a macro level as well. Even if you consider that layoffs were due to repositioning, a portion of that decision making is determined by looking at company health down to the individual P&Ls, and making decisions across the company to react. I've seen cases where high performing divisions deviate from forecasted profitability (while still overall being successful), and it triggers workforce reductions in unrelated areas to balance things back out.

This is shytty when ANY company does it, not just Microsoft. Especially when the messaging from leadership is effectively thanking these people for their career sacrifices to the altar of continued record profits. They get more heat for it because they went on an acquisition spree, culminating in buying an entire publisher that they honestly could've been just fine without.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Missed the point.

The whole Xbox One Era was ripe with missteps.

And the reason the Concord thread was different is because we were all shytting on the game. No one was in there playing defense for Sony. They fukked up with the game and we were there to say why. Not that "Sony is doing better than ever"

The only reason this post is booming is that Xbots are in here defending this shyt and acting like this was the plan all along.

You legit just told me "we not doing this" and to go look at the Concord thread to see what I'm seeing here and it's not remotely the same type of conversations or comments.

All these PlayStation closures, lay offs and game flops and y'all legit are like but Xbox is the one with the problems.


MS hasn't had problems with games, there biggest problem was Sony buying out games of all types from indie to AAA from releasing on the system.

The exclusives they have released sony stans have proven on multiple occasions that it's not the games they just don't want to play, it's playing them on another console that's the problem.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[King Sun]

You legit just told me "we not doing this" and to go look at the Concord thread to see what I'm seeing here and it's not remotely the same type of conversations or comments.

All these PlayStation closures, lay offs and game flops and y'all legit are like but Xbox is the one with the problems.


MS hasn't had problems with games, there biggest problem was Sony buying out games of all types from indie to AAA from releasing on the system.

The exclusives they have released sony stans have proven on multiple occasions that it's not the games they just don't want to play, it's playing them on another console that's the problem.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Nope, I'm looking at it from a macro level as well. Even if you consider that layoffs were due to repositioning, a portion of that decision making is determined by looking at company health down to the individual P&Ls, and making decisions across the company to react. I've seen cases where high performing divisions deviate from forecasted profitability (while still overall being successful), and it triggers workforce reductions in unrelated areas to balance things back out.

On a Macro level microsoft has grown since the activision acquisition.

Across all of tech companies have been downsizing since covid, microsoft has actually grown.

These layoffs are about increased profitability with a looming recession being forecast.

It’s way bigger than xbox and has little to do with the activision acquisition specifically

This is shytty when ANY company does it, not just Microsoft. Especially when the messaging from leadership is effectively thanking these people for their career sacrifices to the altar of continued record profits. They get more heat for it because they went on an acquisition spree, culminating in buying an entire publisher that they honestly could've been just fine without.

No one ever said it’s not “shytty” for layoffs to happen.

The publisher they purchased was in trouble at the time and SOMEBODY needed to buy them.

Other publishers were purchased and layoffs happened elsewhere but again some of you chose to pretend microsoft is uniquely shytty for doing the same capitalism as everyone else.

 

[Fatboi1]

Meach and Titan only exist in these threads to create noise. they’re not saying nothing

they’ll just keep going back and forth with Sonytoo shyt

This. There's really no real discussion being had here, just a fool's job of them trying to find a random gotcha from ~2012 to try and equalize the pain of seeing their favorite brand dissolve right before their very eyes.

 

[The Mad Titan]

This. There's really no real discussion being had here, just a fool's job of them trying to find a random gotcha from 2012 to try and equalize the pain of seeing their favorite brand dissolve right before their very eyes.

I'm more pleased with Xbox now than I've ever been.





I can't say the same for PlayStation though

 

[Fatboi1]

I'm more pleased with Xbox now than I've ever been.





I can't say the same for PlayStation though

Really?