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Microsoft is reportedly laying off 650 staff from its gaming division, according to an internal memo sent by Xbox CEO Phil Spencer to to staff, which has been published by both IGN and Game File.
This latest round of cuts would follow the company laying off 1,900 staff from its video game division back in January this year, and come amid what’s been an incredibly torrid year games industry-wide on the layoff front. In the memo, Spencer wrote: “As part of aligning our post-acquisition team structure and managing our business, we have made the decision to eliminate approximately 650 roles across Microsoft Gaming — mostly corporate and supporting functions — to organize our business for long term success.” Microsoft is reportedly ‘banking on’ Black Ops 6 to grow Game Pass subscriber numbers, as growth on the service has stagnated
Xbox may not see the full impact of Call of Duty on Game Pass until next year
He added that: “No games, devices or experiences are being cancelled and no studios are being closed as part of these adjustments today.”
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The only reason why I dislike that fat chin Spencer is because he's overly obsessed with Japan and he just doesn't know when to quit. We already know that nobody on the Xbox ecosystem plays jrpg or weeb stuff. And you know what, since 2022 I blame Spencer for gaslighting gamers into thinking Xbox is a jrpg machine or making Persona synonymous with Xbox and everything is bullshit. Everything Spencer said about promising more Japanese games is a lie, because in reality he just wants to devalue Japanese games with some woke crap. Lastly, if the future of Atlus is at stake because of the ties between Sega and Microsoft, then that Xflops hardware sales will the least of their problem. If you like Jrpg so much, get a PS or Nintendo. So deal with it.
This channel is really just 'Xbox is on fire, PlayStation is better in every way. Subscribe for more grifting off fanboys…'
For the price of buying BO6, you can rent it for 3.5 months.
XBOX keeps racking up L's. 16 year old me would be pretty sad. I've enjoyed my series X a lot, but this is just becoming embarrassing. I think feel had good vision, but was surrounded by poor people. Series X should have launched with the best Halo ever. Instead we got something that didn't even have slayer as a play mode. just pathetic.
Dude they have over 20k employees they got rid of 10% of there staff over the past year. You don't know if these people were top tier employees or if they weren't making quota or not showing up. Thousands of people get laid off everyday. No one bats an eye when any big company does it but when it's the gaming industry y'all freak out.
The worst place place to work in is xbox studios
RIP Xbox
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… Actually Xbox as a brand is redundant 😐….
Phil Spencer….more like Frank Spencer
Phil has run xbox intro the ground. It might be strong with players, but overall, xbox game pass will kill the industry of gaming becayse we still need physical media and people to buy games.
"Xbox fires everyone" you and crapgamer are masters at clickbaiting titles. Bravo 👏
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Lmao you don’t even believe the bs you say yourself! 🤡🤣
Why is everyone butthurt over playing plastic access keys on a disc drive
as somebody who buys cod yearly and not just one copy but two i will not be buying this years just so it hurts microsoft.
Xbox tax at it again.
you cant be talking about xbox as you never picked up an xbox controller at the start
More firing/layoffs? Come on… I’m fuckin’ sick of it man. No wonder the unemployment rate has gone up. Makes me want to punch a hole in my wall.
Don't worry, none of you will be able to afford a new game console or PC when Karen Harris is installed…
Ohhh I feel so sorry for the Wokemployees of M$…..
it's funny how Sony and Microsoft are like self sabotaging themselves when its completely unnecessary, meanwhile Nintendo is just out there selling games and not screwing up
I got a really nice email from Xbox today saying I have the privilege of resubscribing to gamepass ultimate at an increased price! I could really feel the love and respect that my chosen megacorp has for me. I love being Phil's paypig. Gimme more daddy
My guess the gaming industry might become less and less as the years go by much like what the music industry is now versus what it was in the 80s.
The reason for this a good number of the people won’t believe but it’s because most of the countries of the world have already been secretly taken over by an Elite or shadow government. They believe they should destroy our culture so we will be more accepting when they destroy most of the currencies of the world and eventually create a 1 world government.
The company is full of talentless executives with no skilled employees. They fired them all. They will continue to fail.
Can we force this dweeb to change his name? He is a stain on the beautiful Dreamcast name. He didnt even celebrate the consoles anniversary
Expect more Xbox ips on Playstation.
The recent stuff out of Xbox doesn't seem like the same kind of thing that's historically come out. I think MS corporate has taken more direct control over Xbox. Phil Spencer almost seems robotic at this point. I think the decisions here are being made by someone who is not as familiar with the industry and is only thinking of numbers.
In spite of this, stocks go up. Some insider trading perhaps? Doesn't match parity with outlook, so yeah. One big scheme overshadowing the lower echelons of the company, I think.
Xbox employs 8000 more employees than PlayStation.
0:42 Ah, so this time Xbox is scheduled for a forever demise? Seems like Xbox has more "final" deaths than a movie villain!
Not sure why this gay hates xbox so much, sony are just as bad. Passing on bungie seems like a good thing, considering the current state
Doom is a game that wasn't Xbox in the first place they didn't make doom so don't give them credit because they bought it
Sony playstation and Microsoft Xbox are doomed !!!!
I hope all games become universal
Loving that background. FFX
Xbox fired everyone??? So what your saying is there is no one working for xbox now?? Dude get a real job
You sound like a trans woman in this video
im mostly an achievement hunter and only have xbox core
And you wonder why you get so much abuse making stupid shit like this 😂
Microsoft have always bought studios and then closed them. I remember waaaay back in the day when they bought Access software, who made the Tex Murphy games. A year later they shut it down, they only bought it to turn Links into Microsoft Golf and get rid of the competition. As a result, they killed off the Tex Murphy games. They're still doing the same thing. They're clueless.
I'm glad game pass is tanking, may it continue to do so. I get the concept, but games come and go. You might be half way through one and it dissapears. Games aren't like films, you know how long it will take you to watch a film, but that's not the case with games. I like to own my games forever (although granted, you never fully own them on any gaming store other than GOG).
More Xbox failures are always welcome
Market cap is a thing. They reach it, and then have to begin the process of enshitification. XBox's market cap is low because Playstation has fucked them in the ass for 2 generations in a row – despite the PS5 being an absolute piece of shit with no games. They've given up on competing, which is why they are cutting jobs – and they'd have done it anyway if they had started to beat Sony, once there was no more consumers to gain. These companies try to grow artificially by buying other companies, creating monopolies, and then having nowhere to go in a financial market that constantly demands each new year is bigger than the last – instead of settling for steady profit and success. XBox is broken, but our financial systems are the root cause.
Dreamcastguy, if u put on Netflix in the background kind of expeirence, that is a you problem. Easily solved. Turn out the lighjts, grab a beverage of choice, maybe popcorn, then watgch it onthe bigest TV U can and turn of phone too.
All this guy does is complain about Microsoft when every other tech company doing the same thing.
why don't Xbox make the games do the talking xbox is a joke
I really like Xbox as a brand, and I am in agony of what's happening. I used to hold Phiil in high regard, especially after Don, but all the bad leadership decisions that are costing both us as fans and Xbox gaming division employees grief must be dealt with. I said it before, I feel for Sarah for the broken legacy she has inherited, and if she manages to turn things around somehow, she should be immortalized in the history of the industry. That's how much of a colossal task she has ahead of her…
I don't even need to watch this to know he's going to say (once again) that we're seeing the death of xbox
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