Bloomberg: Xbox to face layoffs once again

[FacelessSamurai]

@Sparda3g

PC is also dominating slowly. The mere fact that Wilds outperformed consoles, which they were originated from, and Stellar Blade hit a milestone far quicker than PS5 alone speaks for itself. Only Nintendo is saved because well they are in their own bubble. If burst, they will follow. For now, they are slowly training consumers to go digital.

I sometimes wonder how much the Pc dominating thing is skewed due to Asia being a gigantic PC market. Like, I’m actually happy about the Xbox and Windows platforms somewhat merging in the future in terms of gaming but I always wonder what’s the split per country or per continent.

Like in my gaming circles, everyone who has decent income streams are all on PC with the odd ones having a Switch in the living room for party games. The few people I know that own consoles are lower income in general. But that’s just what I see and of course, your mileage may vary!

[Searsy82]

[Meister10000]

@Doncabesa

if it’s asus, lenovo, hp and others the chances are higher because those companies have good availability hardware-wise compared to Xbox now

I do wonder that once the new handheld is released that Xbox is going to try and make it more available than before.

Same for any kind of new hardware. Cause this is kinda a bit depressing to see i will not lie.

[Searsy82]

I think one of the overlooked aspects of the hardware moves is the increased competition for foundry resources. If you consolidate design/chip production with AMD products for Xbox and PC you reduce the amount of unique production required to facilitate a whole bunch of different devices. From that perspective, what they are doing makes even more sense.

[PowerDrift (Paul)]

So nice to see the ABK deal paying yet more dividends

[PowerDrift (Paul)]

@Staffy

It’s not exactly great here in The Netherlands either. The section for Xbox physical games is the smallest it’s been in years with Nintendo and Sony dominating completely. I’ve heard from others that Series consoles are hard to find, honestly I haven’t really checked here.

I just really hope once next gen rolls around and whatever tf the next Xbox is (I trust it will be something I’ll want as big Xbox fan) that it’s just readily available here. Never again a repeat of the Xbox One situation please. I don’t want to have to wait a year or in the case it’s not coming here at all having to import one.

I think you’ll be fine, this isn’t about distribution and in the post-COVID era, many corps don’t need to have expensive HQ’s around the world when you do it remotely

I hope this news doesn’t affect Xbox development or R&D staff no amount of AI can replace that

[SilentJay76]

You guys know that Microsoft also hires thousands of people a year, right? It’s not a one way street.

[Sparda3g]

@SilentJay76

You guys know that Microsoft also hires thousands of people a year, right? It’s not a one way street.

When transparent or easy to leak out business wise leave no other thoughts but endgame.

[Staffy]

@PowerDrift

I think you’ll be fine, this isn’t about distribution and in the post-COVID era, many corps don’t need to have expensive HQ’s around the world when you do it remotely

I hope this news doesn’t affect Xbox development or R&D staff no amount of AI can replace that

That would be great, because I still have “nightmares” from when I bought a USA PlayStation 2 many, many years ago and it died on me instantly, probably because it needed a different power supply cable or whatever it was. I just want no nonsense, but I DO want whatever Xbox is bringing next because I trust they’ll make something worthwhile.

[Resist]

Why do people keep mentioning Europe. Are the layoffs occurring mostly there or something?

[PowerDrift (Paul)]

@Resist

Why do people keep mentioning Europe. Are the layoffs occurring mostly there or something?

Looks like, and the rumour going around is that some Xbox EU divisions will be closed down entirely . Though in the remote post-COVID era that’s what a lot of corps will be doing I bet even SONY

[Kals_Els]

George Broussard (@georgebsocial.bsky.social)

If Broussard heard something from someone he knows and this turns out to be true. This is such shit move as always.

[FacelessSamurai]

@Kals_Els

If Broussard heard something from someone he knows and this turns out to be true. This is such shit move as always.

Really hoping this is overblown as that is a massive amount of people to let go and I have no idea which one of their studious deserves this as they’ve all been shooting on all fronts and doing great imo.

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

@Kals_Els

If Broussard heard something from someone he knows and this turns out to be true. This is such shit move as always.

Not sure why he would have an inkling of exact numbers when he undercut their actual division size by half and none of the reporters have stated anything like this.

He seems to be conflating the “thousands of cuts at Microsoft” reports from a few weeks ago as “thousands of cuts at xbox”

[Sparda3g]

I realized if it’s supposed to be end of June, literally Monday is the only time to break the news. Basically, start the week with a crappy news.

[CallMeCraig]

@Kals_Els

If Broussard heard something from someone he knows and this turns out to be true. This is such shit move as always.

i hope its not true. that would be brutal.

but his number seem wrong, xbox has way more than 10k employees.

@Sparda3g

I realized if it’s supposed to be end of June, literally Monday is the only time to break the news. Basically, start the week with a crappy news.

Microsoft fiscal year and in July so we will know in 4 weeks max.