WTF is happening with XBox?!?!?

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Microsoft Makes Deep Job Cuts Across Xbox Division, Cancels Games
Hundreds of people were laid off as the company canceled upcoming games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild
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An Xbox spokesperson declined to confirm how many people were impacted, but the cuts were widespread and significant.
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Spencer didn’t share specific numbers but said that impacted employees will be “given priority review” if they apply to open jobs elsewhere within the company. He wrote that Microsoft’s “platform, hardware, and game roadmap have never looked stronger,” but that “we must make choices now for continued success in future years and a key part of that strategy is the discipline to prioritize the strongest opportunities.”
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"Never looked stronger" but let's fire the employees anyway?

This is brutal and sad. They should never have bought Activision Blizzard...
 
username and 23 others said:
Microsoft Makes Deep Job Cuts Across Xbox Division, Cancels Games




"Never looked stronger" but let's fire the employees anyway?

This is brutal and sad. They should never have bought Activision Blizzard...
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3 things come to mind

A) Microsoft is forcing staff to use AI (Wanna see return on their investment)
B) End of the road for DEI (Microsoft returning to merritt based performance)
C) $70 billion investment was not as profitable as they thought.

Might be a combo of all 3.
 
Lupus said:
Game development takes ages and ages now, console life times can't keep up with how long it takes to make a game. Unless you pull a Sony and just remaster and remake the same games 3 times over :)
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You mean like Gears of War (360), Gears of War:Ultimate (Xbox One remaster), Gears of War:Reloaded (remaster of the remaster) ?
 
prod said:
You mean like Gears of War (360), Gears of War:Ultimate (Xbox One remaster), Gears of War:Reloaded (remaster of the remaster) ?
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Pity they didn't do that with the other 2 and 3, the better ones. Or Fable, I know they did the remaster from Xbox to 360, but nothing after that.
 
AlphaJohn said:
3 things come to mind

A) Microsoft is forcing staff to use AI (Wanna see return on their investment)
B) End of the road for DEI (Microsoft returning to merritt based performance)
C) $70 billion investment was not as profitable as they thought.

Might be a combo of all 3.
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Was also thinking about those along with the fact that Microsoft is also shifting focus and funds to Copilot.
 
Phil is running XBox into the ground. If they do release first party HW next -gen, it will be their last kit. That a Don Mattrick type of firing has not happened to Phil is mind-boggling. I thought Satya was ruthless, but it seems Phil can do no wrong.
 
Lupus said:
Game development takes ages and ages now, console life times can't keep up with how long it takes to make a game. Unless you pull a Sony and just remaster and remake the same games 3 times over :)
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Strange thing that is, was thinking the same the other day. GTA will be in the making for 8 years next year. Thats about a console generation length.
 
username and 23 others said:
Phil is running XBox into the ground. If they do release first party HW next -gen, it will be their last kit. That a Don Mattrick type of firing has not happened to Phil is mind-boggling. I thought Satya was ruthless, but it seems Phil can do no wrong.
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I don't think Mattick was fired, he left for Zygna.

Besides, Phil was right there next to him since the beginning. The amount of bad decisions he alone made is thread worthy (like passing on a Marvel's Spider man rights, which Sony then picked up).
 
Neptuner said:
Strange thing that is, was thinking the same the other day. GTA will be in the making for 8 years next year. Thats about a console generation length.
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Yup, the time between 4 and 5 was just under 5 years. But the time between 5 and 6 is now 12 years.
That's two and a half generations as 5 came out during the 360 end and went through One and now Series X.
Fallout 4 was only 5 years from NV and 6 years from 3.
Game developers are taking the mickey here. I get they want to make these huge games, but sometimes we just want games.
 
username and 23 others said:
Phil is running XBox into the ground. If they do release first party HW next -gen, it will be their last kit. That a Don Mattrick type of firing has not happened to Phil is mind-boggling. I thought Satya was ruthless, but it seems Phil can do no wrong.
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What makes you think it's all Phil's idea? Satya and I would even say Billy boy has been pushing for SAS.

Also, the whole reason Xbox exists is cause Microsoft was trying to coax developers to use DirectX instead of OpenGL and other APIs. Now that Direct X adoption is the norm for PC games, there is no need for a dedicated console to push the tech.
 
To pull the plug on games that have been in development for longer than 5 years tells me they were worried about another Red Fall situation. No return on investments and just more embarrassing launches.

Something tells me those in power who saw Perfect Dark, Everwilds builds probably saw another Red Fall situation unfolding. Lack luster, bland, DEI inspired crap.

Gamepass is really cooking as of late. Oblivion remaster, Doom Dark ages, Claire Obscur etc.

"Streamline and growth" is a nice way of saying the studios are bloated. Look at what Sandfall did with Clair Obscur with a tiny team of devs.
 
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