Since they hired thousands during the purchase and the resulting trials/investigations, I can imagine a ton of extra staff that MS wasn’t planning to have. MS should have had some clauses to punish ABK for inflating their workforce that degree.
Really sucks for everyone involved. That said, why a trillion dollar company with a bunch of cash can’t find a good use for these extra folks is beyond my understanding.
If you look at the hiring over the last few years Bobby K nearly doubled the head count there, been shocked more weren’t fired but that FTC cased dragged on.
Man another round of layoffs? … I swear every person in the video game industry needs to unionize.
in the US it wouldn’t help, they’re getting good severance. In this situation it’s a result of the mass hiring during the merger so I wouldn’t be shocked at even more over time, ABK nearly doubled employee count.
I did think that it had been awhile since Xbox stood on another rake!
I was literally tempted to post after the PS5 Pro reveal, simply to say how long until Xbox messes up again and takes the limelight away from Sony.
Perhaps too early to call but Astro Bot at Japan sold around 12,000, beaten by Touhou game for Switch that sold around 16,000. Stellar Blade sold 49,000 in its opening weekend.
https://x.com/wario64/status/1834220895855837355?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
This timeline is wild.
Going Live
under Nadella most of the usual big layoffs happen at the start of the new year so fiscal q3 or q4.
Good to hear, but likely too late. As that run time fee was ridiculous, and ended up destroying every bit of trust they had with studios. It’s likely that most studious will try to move on to something else to make sure Unity can’t try this again.
It looks like there’s a leak from Atlus regarding with TGS. Not sure if I should share here but it’s old games from long ago. Speculated that it will be announced at Xbox TGS.
It’s funny how I am seeing people starting to realize UK boxed charts isn’t everything. It’s interesting it took a Sony IP not having good physical sales in the UK to realize boxed chart is irrelevant since many switched to digital
https://x.com/wario64/status/1834348465788178797?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
I guess they wanted to top Xbox today…
Too bad it doesn’t work on Japan.
The entire staff resigned? That is wild. The gaming industry sure is something right now.
Wow, what happens to Remedy? Because I believe they partnered with them for Control 2. I feel that studio has the worst luck
