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[kitler53]

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Major layoffs planned at Xbox.

pure speculation on my part, i've not so much as read a rumor on the topic but..

...what i'm going to pay specific attention to is who gets cut.   while i won't be surprised if a studio like ninja theory gets closed due to hellblade II bombing i think it is the hardware side of the house that is most likely to be gutted.    

we know MS is marketing anything capable of playing a MS published game as an "xbox".   we've heard the rumor that MS's dedicated handheld console was deprioritized to focus on software emulation of xbox games on PC.   We've seen MS promote projects like the "ROG Xbox Ally" an d"ROG Xbox Ally X" or the "Meta Quest Xbox".   We've seen their video talking about xbox supporting multiple store fronts.

this feels like an exit from hardware and that makes the hardware team almost in it's entirety obsolete.  they just need a small 3rd party relationships team to seek out hardware partnerships and market them.

[the-pi-guy]

I don't think that is it, they are still pushing forward on hardware plans. I would expect hardware layoffs if their current plans failed.  

There was another article that suggested they were changing their distributions in Europe: 


[The Verge] Microsoft is restructuring Xbox distribution across central Europe, resulting in some Xbox operations ceasing in some regions