2 more weeks

>>714267061 (OP)
It's too early, wait a couple of hours.

It's almost 8 in the morning in America land, let people have their coffee first before telling them they need to apply to McDonald's next.

>>714267061 (OP)
It’s like 4 am in California numbnuts

idk but Xbox is stopping selling Xboxes in the Nordic countries so there's that

ITS HAPPENING, CHEER UP BOYS

>Microsoft Begins Deep Job Cuts Across Xbox Division
>Microsoft Corp.’s gaming division began informing employees of job cuts on Wednesday morning, initiating the process of widespread layoffs that staff have been expecting for the last week.
>Microsoft’s Barcelona-based King division, which makes Candy Crush, is cutting 10% of its staff, or about 200 jobs
>Other European offices, such as ZeniMax, also began informing employees that job cuts were happening, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to press

MORE NEWS SURROUNDING US-BASED STUDIOS LATER IN THE DAY! AWESOME

https://archive.is/ZelXH [groomberg article from 5 minutes ago]

>>714267283
Last time, the people that got fired would only found out when they're at their desk trying to login.

they need a bit of time to pack their things into boxes

>>714268195

it's like 8 AM in texas and rest of US right now. few more hours to see how hard they will ack the pozzed studios

>>714267061 (OP)
It's fucking 6 am retard, the workday has barely started for white collar workers

I still get free games via Game Pass, right?

>>714268624
>zenimax marketing
they have a marketing budget ??

>>714267061 (OP)
I’ve been part of layoffs and not told until like 10 am to noon. They make you fucking show up to work like a dog first and sit like a good boy.

but why the fuck are they even laying people off in the first place, doesn’t Microsoft/Xbox pretty much cater to the PC platform like it was console anyway with same day release and no exclusivity???? PC is the worlds largest platform with endless paying customers, why the FUCK are Microsoft forced to layoff anyone when nobody owns a PS5 or buys non-existent playstation games????? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WHY ISNT PC PROPPING XBOX UP

>>714269409
Fuck.
I hope that at least the time working for them made your CV more attractive.

>>714269409
I had this when I was 18 and first started working, granted it was for a local cinema and not for a big corporation like Microsoft, but those fuckers made me work an entire 9 hour shift before telling me not to come back at the end of my shift and it was a month after my 90 day trial period ended.

They'll announce it when most journos would be going to sleep by now.

>>714269409
for me it was end of day both times

LAYOFFS HAVE BEGUN
>10% OF KING HAS BEEN LAID OFF
>SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF LAYOFFS AT ZENIMAX
>MORE TO COME
>STUDIOS LIKELY TO CLOSE COMPLETELY

>>714269932
>10% OF KING HAS BEEN LAID OFF
Why though? Isn't the company one of the more profitable parts of ABK?

Microsoft cutting 9,000 jobs
"1000-2000 from Xbox" was exaggerated?

343i status?

>>714270050
layoffs aren't about losing money, they're about making more money

>>714270112
ah wait it makes sense

>>714270112
Tons of Xbox staff will be laid off, dayum

>>714269932
>Our platform, hardware, and game roadmap have never looked stronger. The success we’re seeing currently is based on tough decisions we’ve made previously. 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. We will protect what is thriving and concentrate effort on areas with the greatest potential, while delivering on the expectations the company has for our business. This focused approach means we can deliver exceptional games and experiences for players for generations to come.
10/10 buzzword babble

What's worse is that they talk like this during any conference, even gaming events, like when mark boody showed up and started to incoherently yap about Saarfield and a bunch of other buzzword shit : https://youtu.be/WJoaV5NnPtw?t=570

>>714269917

I remember reading somewhere that firing a person at the end of the day would massively increases the chance of suicide. I dunno

>>714270050
they are also one of the most bloated departments

If they didn't fire Phil Spencer than the layoffs aren't because of poor performance

SELL YOUR XBOX! SELL IT NOW! IT’S HAPPENING! AHHHH

>>714267061 (OP)
here

>>714267061 (OP)
>>714267192
They just started lol, shits about to go down. looks like 2000 in gaming and 9000 across Microsoft as a whole. studios are notifying their employees right now

>>714267061 (OP)
Didn't the CEO give himself a massive raise just now?

I'm tooking my champagne out because this is a cause for celebration :D

>>714270050
>overhire massively during covid
>AI means you need less
>jeets want more jeets
Mix and match your favorite options

Thread theme:
https://youtu.be/fV_LvVjElHM?t=34

Today is a good day

haha, Snoy is so fucked, glad I boughted a $3000 GPU, lmao

>>714267061 (OP)
If Xbox is making a tonne of money from Gamespass then why are they laying people off?

>https://insider-gaming.com/phil-spencer-message-to-staff/
>I recognize that these changes come at a time when we have more players, games, and gaming hours than ever before. Our platform, hardware, and game roadmap have never looked stronger.
the delusion kek

>>714272204
The line is going up, but it should be going up faster

>>714272204
they didnt make enough money, which again my corporate standards is never ever enough money. they witnessed all of their games get passed up for GOTY, theyve spent billions acquiring tons of studios and theyve shit out garbage.

>Fable looks like "what if its like the office and things from 2010 humor"
>Perfect Dark is YEARS behind schedule and carrying a heavy price tag
>Halo is in shambles
>Call of Duty is the only thing keeping Acti/Blizz afloat
>WoW is fucking dead
>Ninja Theory has nothing to reveal and Hellblade 2 sold like dogshit
>after 4 years Double Fine dropped an indie title where you play as a lighthouse
>Obsidian is pushing out trash left and right
>Inxile is pushing out trash
>Bethesda blew too much on StarField but made it back with oblivion remastered
>Rare has done nothing but Sea of Thieves for 7 years

i could go on, but its a list of trash that is not good and when you pay a bunch of money youd expect a few bangers out of a sea of shit.

>>714272005
t. false flagging xbox cuck

>Everwild canceled

>>714271245
Stop being Anti-Indian, saar.

AND ANOTHER ONE
>Everwild has been cancelled as Xbox layoffs hit Rare
https://archive.is/8YWma

>>714267061 (OP)
RARE HAS BEEN HIT, I REPEAT RARE HAS BEEN HIT, EVERWILD DOWN

>>714273451
Thanks, I haven't felt this level of satisfaction in about a few days since I've been working too much to play my Switch 2.

Any news about Blizzard?

>>714273451
Oh shit, I wonder if State of Decay is also on the chopping block.

>>714272352
are the Ceo's demons or psychopaths ? i mean if someone make 8 digits after taxes per year, what's the point to ask for more ? if you earn 25 millions per year after taxes for 10 years, you will have 250 millions, that would be enough for 10 lives if you spend 25 million per life

>Layoffs are Microsoft wide, not focusing on Xbox
Once again, nothing ever happens

>>714274469
t. xbox cuck doing damage control

>>714270420
Guess that would mean the corporation isn't on the hook for unemployment.

If everwild is dead, I'd guess contraband is too maybe even fable might get killed at this rate.

>>714275040
only way to save fable would be making a trailer with good looking PC and NPCs
which is impossible for xbox
so yeah it's on the chopping block

>>714273903
They need to pay for those 10 rooms houses and yatchs anon, get real.

>I'm going to make Mattrick look like fucking Iwata

>>714273903
>are the Ceo's demons or psychopaths
yes and they should be banished

>>714275228
I don't believe Fable even exists desu, all 3 trailers are cinematics and two are just the exact same thing.

>>714267061 (OP)
Why do I care about this?

>>714275402
they can probably release something on par with avowed in 2027

>>714275341
kek remember when gen 9 kicked off and /v/ was championing this retard as the bane of sony

>>714273903
Just capitalists anon.
You know, that magical "only system that works".

>>714272204
its unironically Steam/Valve/Gaben fault as they are cockblocked on PC with Steam sisters refusing to not play with anything that isn’t not Steam, its utterly pathetic and I hope that Microsoft follow through with their plans to bought Steam liked it leaked last year, PC had fucking killed Xbox and its all Steams fault despite Microsoft offering these PC bastard sissies free games in Game Pass fucking idorts

>>714275509
Xbox still won this gen over snoy, objectively

you know that all tech companies are firing people and replacing them with AI right?

>rumor going around that Todd and Emil have been given their marching orders
holy fuck, Starfield was that bad?

>>714275604
yes I hope xbox is kindly boughteding steam next year because the bloody basterd pc gamer is not using doing needful and using the microsoft store

>>714275667
this but with indians

>>714275643
You're objectively retarded.

>>714275604
Holy ESL seethe

>>714275724
The game can be a bit bland in storytelling but it is not bad. YouTubers and journos just hate Xbox especially after the ABK merger so they wanted it to fail, and zoomies get all their opinions from YouTube nowadays.

>>714275862
>The game can be a bit bland
you are a fucking TODD-ler
starfield is terrible

OH NO NO NO NO

BWAHAHAHAHA

>>714273903
An American making 50k/year could live 100 lifetimes in Africa, anon. How entitled are you to that salary? Huh?

>>714267061 (OP)
Any news on Blizzard lately? They've been shilling a lot lately and the mount drop boost event smells of desperation.

Something juicy better come up in the next 17 mins

>>714273903
>i mean if someone make 8 digits after taxes per year, what's the point to ask for more ?
They can't get enough, you retard, it's like a fat fucking retard who can't stop eating his brain wants more and more and more over everything. You can thank the retarded american hypercapitalism for that. Absolute cancer.

>>714275402
Why did they hire an actor for a trailer when it wasn't even close to being finished or even playable. Just completely braindead decision making

>>714267061 (OP)
>massive layoffs
>5k people planned
>company has over 200k employees
these aren't massive, they did more when they had to clean up the covid extras

>muh greedy CEOs!
Why do underage/unemployed people always complain about this? It's like getting mad that the local manager at McDonald's for the price of fries going up.

>>714276341
>Just live in a mud hut eating cow shit pies if you don't like your salary!
>I deserve my $14m bonus!
That's a good one Mr. Noseberg.

>>714276517
There's no reason for billionaire to exist.

>>714276517
Nice try jew

*gets off unscathed*
Thanks for the millions.

>two more hours

Good. I voted for this. All the companies are trimming their DEI hire fat Biden forced them to hire. All the leftists whining about muh CEO billionaires are absolutely fuming.

>>714276787
I mean, of all the money pits Xbox has disappeared money into at least Halo yields some level of consistent results.

honestly good these companies are way too bloated for the output they do, look at From Software they only have 400.

>>714277082
Fromsoft has notoriously shit work culture and their employees are paid far below market. But I guess playing Dark Souls 3 for the 15th time easily impresses their fans.

>>714277204
their the only people that have given all its devs a raise thoughbeit

>>714267061 (OP)
co-pilot is replacing all game studios

Dangerously based
Trumps victory was a message and a final warning to leftist companies pushing DEI and Anti-White propaganda

The Obama Era Woke bullshit is over
Surrender or be destroyed


No more Blacks
No more Women
No more Gays
No more Trannies
No more Anti-White bullshit

Fall in line or die faggots

>>714277389
based i use it for code all the time

its over

>>714276878
>Jasmin
Muslims blew up his dick and balls?

>>714267283
>apply to McDonald
Say whatever you want, but that's at least a more honest work than whatever the hell they did at M$.

>>714277389
>jeet generated garbage
Great

>>714268624
It's so funny how people on sites like resetera, twitter, youtube comments sections etc have to couch everything they say in like ten layers of bubblewrap disclaimers because they know if they don't, they'll be descended upon by a horde of psychos eager to correct them or tell them they're a horrible person.

>>714276878
>nooo it's coming!
>just like those huge game reveals at the tga!
>veilguard was a success!!!

>>714277659
which is different from the current jeet-generated garbage how?

>>714277204
>Fromsoft has notoriously shit work culture and their employees are paid far below market
is there any source on this because their games aren't filled with MTX trash like the dogshit "games" you enjoy.
>But I guess playing Dark Souls 3 for the 15th time easily impresses their fans.
Yea they all play the same, oh wait they don't you absolute retarded mongoloid.

>Windows Central is currently investigating reports that Perfect Dark and ZeniMax Online Studios' new online IP have also been cancelled. We are awaiting hard confirmation, as Microsoft continues to let staffers know where the cuts are falling. ZeniMax Online Studios' new IP hadn't been formally revealed, but Perfect Dark has had multiple trailers since its announcement. The studio, The Initiative, has been working on the game for many years in partnership with Embracer Groups' Crystal Dynamics of Tomb Raider fame.

I'm hearing from the grapevine (so please take with a big, potentially massive grain of salt) that Kojima OD's publishing contract with MS might be up in flames. KJP owns the IP and will shop for a new publisher

>>714276273
Is this real?

>>714278051
I hope to god it's cancelled

>>714272204
Line on spreadshit has gone up, but hasn't gone up fast enough, so layoffs are in order for line to go up faster. Gaming-wise:

>Fable is a shitshow that looks like a shitshow
>Perfect Dark is in dev hell
>Halo is a shadow of what it once was
>COD is the only thing worth it that prints money on Act/Blizz side
>WoW is a meme in the current year
>Ninja Theory is the biggest astroturf in gaming and HellBlade 2 sold like shit
>Obsidian is pumping up trash after trash
>Double Fine made a game about playing as a lighthouse
>Inxile is another one pumping up trash
>Bethesda's Saarfield underperformed, but due to Oblivion Remake, they got to stay afloat
>Rare has been sea of theiving for 8 years now

I fucking knew that perfect dark game would be cancelled lol.

>>714278051
NO! Perfect Dark was one the few games I was looking forward to from Xbox! They'd better not get rid of it

>>714278624
It looked like peak woke slop dude.

>>714278624
Sorry but your dreams of playing as a square jaw femoid assassin are over

Its obvious MS only wants to focus on turbo normalfag shit like Call of Duty and everything else is going in the trash.

>>714278624
Yeah, it's one of the few that looked half-decent
Then again, that trailer was probably all smoke and mirrors

>>714268195
>candycrush and zenimax
Lol who cares

>>714278065
Cancelled so Snoy can get KJP on Psysint sooner.

Crystal Dynamics wasted their time working on PErfect Dark instead of Tomb Raider lol. And now Embracer will probably end up cancelling the Tomb Raider reboot.

>>714270050
It is obvious since they closed Tango (only good new ip from MS since Sunset Overdrive) that results won't save you. If a tard from accounting says firing you will improve the stocks for the top brass then you will be fired.

>>714278065
That would be an insane shakeup if true, but wasn't it supposed to be a cloud game?

>>714278861
>literally xbox game studio
lol who cares

How do you possibly work on a game for 10 years and have little to nothing to show?

>>714269553
they keep spending billions buying trash companies and suddenly realising they bought trash

>>714275862
>YouTubers and journos just hate Xbox especially after the ABK merger so they wanted it to fail, and zoomies get all their opinions from YouTube nowadays.
The common opinion is that almost every videogame corporation is evil now and deserve to fail

>>714278861
>candycrush (king)
>most profitable studio gets 10% cut off
imagine whats gonna happen to the other studios that dont make a dime and havent delivered a product in 4+ years

>>714270050
King is kept afloat by Candy Crush and nothing else, a lot of their staff are working on unprofitable mobile games that are hidden in Candy Crush's shadow. Go look at just how many games they have discontinued because it flopped.

>>714279000
>useless office staff
Am i missing something?

>>714279113
Honestly, King doesn't need 2000 employees

So far it's been a load of nothing desu

>>714273903
It is literally impossible to do their jobs of chasing infinite profit with a sane mind. The only way You can make them care if they profit somehow.

>>714279021
Management or lack there of

>have game idea
>team is excited
>start pre-dev work
>start working on engine
>Management signs off
>6 months into development management wants a meeting
>"how is game? oh thats nice but this Fortnite game is popular and we are looking for more of that"
>game devs fight but either fall in line or get replaced
>2 years of dev later
>Management starts talking about the next big thing and how the game needs to incorporate that
>2 years later after that Mangement wants the game to be "friend slop"
>also covid hits
>Management now wants the game to have microtransactions and open world crafting system
>etc...

they dont want to make games, they want to sell a game thats behind on trends

>>714279113
Candycrush has been around forever, they should have made something new rather than flogging a dying horse.
I used to play it years ago when it first released but soon got bored, make something new or get the sack

>>714278051
lmao and to think xbots were making fun of sony over game cancellations, karma's a bitch.

>>714279021
Making games from scratch takes forever. ToTK took like 7 years to make and it's hardly appreciably different from the foundation that had 99% of the content already there for them.

as someone who plays primarily with my Switch 2 and penis, explain how this affects me

>>714279113
I swear the State of Decay devs have something on Phil. All they released is a shitty second game which they live service despite it doesn't have mtx.

>>714267061 (OP)
IT'S OVER 9000

>>714272204
games are so bloated they cost 100 of mils to make
gamepass makes a few 100 mils
doesnt pay for itself or make profit its a fucking stupid idea to give away new games to like 2-3mil ppl thats why software sales have fallen off for the xboc

>>714279559
microsoft destroyed them. all the reason to be mad. based higherups replaced, more women let in, diversity hires clashing with development... its microsofts own fault

>>714279543
The world doesn't revolve around you. I'm not sure if this implies that you're narcissistic, autistic, trolling, or all of them combined and I won't be surprised given that you primarily game on Switch 2.

>>714267061 (OP)
I would guess the fact it got leaked and saw such a negative reception caused them to reconsider.

>>714279638
Gamepass is great since i gave buying games after spending 70 bucks on rdr2 and realising it was trash.
I wouldn't even have an xbox if it wasn't for gamepass.
Maybe if they make games that are actually worth spending 70+ bucks on i might buy games again.

>>714280068
Gave up*

>>714280068
yes renting is nice for someone that doesnt wanna own anything but theres not enough of you to make it make profit, so its either they cut the games up and sell half of it as dlc or xbox just burns and dies

>>714268195
hopefully they hit nu-blizzard.

>>714272661
I recall Phil saying that he takes a hands off approach when it comes to these studios.
Which is very retarded, imo
It's probably the reason why they all turned out so much slop

this better not effect my fucking free monthly GamePass games, Phil

>>714280068
Retard.

>>714280235
Just looked up some numbers.
It has 34 million subscribers
15% of all revenue
Also it has been shown that gamepass subscribers often buy the gamepsss games they like the most.
So unless you have some insider information the rest of us don't it seems to be doing pretty well.

>>714280973
Well done very intelligent post you fucking spastic

They canceled Perfect Dark lmao the only Xshit game I was looking forward to

>The staff that has only been a detriment to Microsoft gets cut
WOOOOOWWW Phil your next buddy

>>714281284
Source?

>>714281360
Phils ass

>>714281360
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-cancellations-july-2025

literally the only good game

>>714277625
>Le honest work
What does that even mean?

>>714281424
Thank God! RARE is fuckin terrible and bad acquisition for Microsoft pffft Everwilds yeah Im sure that was gonna be good and not UE5 slop trash they're trying to pass off as a game

>>714267061 (OP)
>>T-trust the plan xbox nation... *cough cough*

>>714281704
It means that anon loves slop

>>714268369
>2000 people to run candy crush
Wut?

>>714281360
Only rumours at this point nothing is confirmed

>>714278051
>The new ZeniMax IP got cancelled
Welp, there goes Prey 2, again. (or maybe it was, I just knew it was a sci-fi thing that looked like Prey 2 from the 1 piece of art I got to look at, I was presuming it was just the game Roadhouse was working on before it got absorbed into Zenimax)

The entire economy is fucked and has been since about 2022.

Biden came in and fucked everything up with inflation and Trump came in and fucked everything up with tariffs.

Hold onto your job if you have one because there is a good chance you can't get another one for a decade plus.

>>714277662
And this is why here is the only good place to browse and post at in the whole interwebz despite what any doomer faggots might say. I can say what I think straight.

>>714267061 (OP)
>Blizzard employees told to work from home as it would be "a tough day"

oh fuck they are gonna kill WoW, Overwatch and Diablo.

>>714281990
tech saw massive hiring during covid and vidya exploded in popularity when everyone was locked in. now after covid normalfags are leaving their house again.

>replaced all the laid off employees with jeets

>>714269553
>nobody owns a PS5 or buys non-existent playstation games?????
>He fell for the /v/intendo propaganda
Lmao

>>714267061 (OP)

They typically lay people off on Friday so they don't come back into the office the next day and shoot the place up.

>>714281424
How many games have a decade of development time and are actually good?

>>714281921
It's a fantasy MMO and Prey would be Arkane's speciality but they are knee deep in Marvel Blade

>>714267061 (OP)
This post did not age well....

>>714276485
Because it will get "engagement" on redd*t and xitter!
>The absolute state of gaming

>>714273903
Yeah but what if you could live 20 lives

Will the economy ever be as good as it was between 2016 and early 2020?

I am starting to lose hope bros.

>>714282131
there is no replacements, anon. that's the point. they're gutting the entire gaming division. at most the remaining employees will probably be cod support staff lmao.

>Spend 10 bajillion dollarydoos and accumulate massive debts buying all those studios and publishers
>The heckin $10 a month from gamepass isnt nearly enough to offset the mass debt you took

Have to start axing everyone

Who could have seen this coming?

>>714282237
Friday is a holiday and management probably has Thursday off.

>>714282517
Tbh, they just made $88b in profit last year, but firing these people will make them slightly *more* money so they are doing it.

Do Americans really?

Willing to bet left nut that Fable 4 gets axed. Not even worth the money to restructure in a world where Veilguard and Avowed tanked so hard.

>>714282605

>>714282517
>>714282592
MS as a whole I mean, Xbox is almost certainly losing money but they lump it with a bunch of other bullshit in their financial reports so it's impossible to really know the full extent.

>>714270112
They are probably going to completely absolve Zenimax at some point. Their job was to manage Bethesda and their studios not much point in them anymore

>>714271245
>CEO enacts cut
>Stakeholders allow him to have 5% of the money they will save
Seems pretty logical to me.

>>714282082
>oh fuck they are gonna kill WoW, Overwatch and Diablo.
god i wish

>>714282342
Did some journo confirm that Zenimax cancelled a new fantasy IP? I can't show anything out of safety for my job but I work in a business that does business with Microsoft that gives me the rare opportunity to look at art from unannounced games years before they're revealed. I KNOW Zenimax Online was working on something that was a sci-fi game (what I saw art of was concept of of a packed city street full of aliens that screamed Prey 2 to me.) I know Roadhouse (the studio composed of the remnants of the studio that was working on the original Prey 2) got absorbed into Zenimax around the time Microsoft did those layoffs that killed Tango Gameworks so when I saw the art I thought that whatever game Roadhouse was working on (which I would only presume was just Prey 2 under a new IP) before getting merged was still carrying on under the Zenimax banner.

If it's some other fantasy IP, then whatever, but it would just be genuinely a little disappointing if the IP I got to see the art for was quietly shuttered, the people behind the original Prey 2 just really cant catch a break man.

>>714267061 (OP)
right here
>>714271237

this is the fastest I've ever seen a fanboy proven to be a complete fucking retard, you're lucky this place is anonymous so your retardation won't follow you around

>>714282517
>offset the mass debt
You really think MS was ever even close to being "in mass debt"? Lmao, peak retard moment.

Not my problem

Phil just a few months ago telling you to be excited for Everwild and that they are making good progress. KEK

https://vimeo.com/1098232743

>>714282131
>replaced all the jeets with jeets
?

>>714267061 (OP)
They gonna do the, Friday or Wednesday depending on if they give these niggers a break for the 4th of July cause these firings happen on the last day of the work week for a reason

>>714276584
Your living conditions seem like living in huts and eating cowshit to millionaire ceos.

>>714282708
>>714282517
Xbox as a division is losing money, while M$ as a whole is printing money. Different optics.

>>714282959
>journo
Only Jez Corden

>HOW COULD PEOPLE VOTE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI?!?

This is why. Most people are struggling and these clowns keep being rewarded.

>>714283250
>Xbox as a division is losing money
no it isn't

>>714269409
Did you get paid for that day? I would try to bring something home with me if not

>>714281704
If you ever worked in an office you'd understand.

>>714283348
MS lumps it in with a bunch of other profitable shit to make it seem like it isn't losing money, but Xbox has been a blackhole for years.

Maybe, now, at this specific moment, after spending $70b on Activision and completely ignoring that massive cost, are they making money? maybe, Activision has been far more successful than anything Xbox has ever done.

>>714281704
I don't know that mcds is really """honest""" work, but I think the poster is implying that they are at least providing a service for society at a fast food joint vs sitting at a desk wasting money at Microsoft at their computer

>>714283276
Ok I got off my ass and actually read the article
>Project Blackbird was cancelled
Wait that was a fucking new IP? I saw that codename too and I thought it was just more Elder Scrolls Online lol. No wonder it got cancelled, what an utterly redundant project when ESO is still going strong. That's not the codename for the project I saw so good to hear that it might still be going on.

>>714283513
They were making money before that acquisition. It was part of the epic and ftc hearings

>>714281704
It means they're not plotting to skim every single cent out of you're pockets and they're actually producing a physical good you can consume.
Why yes, a random farmer does more honest work than a monetization architect or a diversity commissar.

>>714283340
You mean the guy that wants white people to pay higher rents, taxes, and mortgages?

>>714283625
Bullfuckingshit, post source.

>>714283046
based Agent Phil

>>714283701
You're the one claiming they are not profitable. Post your source since the evidence showed otherwise

>>714272352
>>714273903
I would do the same if I was him. Fuck everyone else, get yours. Any other mindset is defective survival.

>>714277512
Demonrats will win next term, you should already be used to the alternance circus.

>>714283783
Not when people have had enough and the populace starts hunting you.

>>714267061 (OP)
Why the fuck do Gamers even care ? unless you are a dev that was laid off it affects you zero.

>>714283884
uh huh, two more weeks until that happens

>>714283057
So he was either lying his ass off or his bosses only recently put a gun to his head and told him to cut as much fat as he can.

Xbox shills are not having a good day

ACK!

>>714283670
>white people in newyork
So Jews lol, well they get what they vote for

>>714283992
he shouldnt care, the fact that he is bothered by this when hes just a consumer is dumb, people pay way too much attention to companies nowadays

>>714283770
So you don't have a source and are just speaking out your ass?

The fact that there has never been a single shred of evidence to show they are profitable and they always obfuscate Xbox in financial reports by lumping it in with a bunch of profitable unrelated shit.

Oh, but wait, Xbox *is* profitable!!
>*checks date*
ah, after the Activision acquisition. Almost like spending $70b to acquire one of the most successful and profitable companies in gaming and then completely disregarding that massive cost means that "Xbox (*cough* Activision *cough*) is profitable"

>>714283590
>Providing a service to society
Fast food is a harm to society.

>>714277512
You got a socialist Muslim elected mayor of NYC because of your behavior lmao

>>714284116
Are you their accountant? why the fuck are you getting so mad lmao

>>714284116
>I am making claims with no evidence but you have to prove me wrong !!!!.

>>714284258
which only affects the liberal majority of newyork, nobody cares lol

>>714284148
That's why I used all the quotes. From the perspective of the worker, they're actually doing something for pay, at least.

>>714278065
Could you please stop talking with so many acronyms?

I bet none of those people in 2020 went to Phil and said to him something like "CEO, there's that game on the horizon, maybe we should partner with them and not let Sony get their exclusivity deal. Then we should figure their formula out and make our better gaem. Game called Jenshin or something."

>>714267061 (OP)
I woke up looking forward to this shit, pissed off desu

>>714284279
Xbox has been a shitstain on this industry since the day they came in. They have only been here so long since MS as a whole makes absolutely absurd amounts of money that Xbox's money black hole barely puts a dent on their overall financials. Xbox is just MS taking a flyer, basically their pet project because they have fuck you amounts of money.

>>714284116
unless they stop supporting Xbox I literally could care less about what Microsoft chooses to do, I don't want to switch to Jim Ryan's cuckold air conditioner known as the PlayStation 5 in order to play games, as long as I can boot up an xbox and play my games I am happy, anyone who cares about drama on twitter is fucking retarded and should be executed as soon as possible

>>714283992
This guy is a HUGE FAG, and loves being cucked apparently since he has a Conker profile picture and they haven't done shit with that squirrel in decades.

>>714284716
but your entire premise is based on your false assertion that XBox loses money

>>714283057
This is exactly the same energy as when Jim Ryan visited that Sony studio in the UK (that baked him the 'Thank you, Jim!' cookie things) that then got shut down a few weeks later.

>>714283132
The really shitty reason why they wouldn't do it on the 4th is probably because the people they'd need to do the layoffs (HR, legal, whatever) are taking a few days off for the holiday weekend.

>>714284950
>MS hasn't done anything with Conker

This is for the best, trust me. nu-Rare is not capable of making a game like BFD, even if MS would let them. (Which they wouldn't.)

>>714273903
Retard, it's not even about the money but a sign of the persons worth. They don't give a fuck about the money, but these men are highly competitive and if the other guy is getting 1 dollar more they will get pissed off and leave to goto another company.

They have to do this.

>>714284716
And? Don't like em dont buy their product.

>>714276273
The amount of women in this industry now explains everything.

>>714283598
>Wait that was a fucking new IP?
Blackbird was some third-person action/adventure game set in a sci-fi universe, where you're some sort of badass bounty hunter.
>inbf. Uncle at Nintendo!
Just a couple friends that worked at ZOS and they mentioned it over beers. They previously talked about Fallout 76 and Redfall before they were announced, so Ill take their words for it.

>>714283937
Because we hate the developers and want them to die.

>>714285030
Xbox has lost money every single year up until the Activision acquisition.

>>714285137
Back in the day women mocked men for liking video games, then they took over and ruined everything.

>>714285120
I don't buy their products. I bought an XSX when it was on deep discount (which they lose money on) and all I play it on is BC games.

>>714285291
Ok and you know this how?

>>714280836
They would have turned out slop whether he was hands on or not. These are just the types of people that make up the majority of the industry now.

>>714285392
Ok? So why you so mad? Complete waste of your time

I've wanted Microsoft to burn ever since my 360 RRODed as a kid and they wanted to charge $200 to fix it. Haven't touch an Xbox console since. Fuck 'em.

>>714280836
i think that's a good thing, need to trust your studios, if they fail sack em

>>714282517
>accumulate massive debt
Anon... It's fucking Microsoft, they didn't need to take out loans, they had that money in straight cash reserve.

>>714278485
Inxile hasn't been pumping out anything, Fargo is a piece of shit but he has also been far more competent as a producer and studio head than Feargus. They always seem to be far more ambitious than those clowns at Obsidian. We will see if Clockwork Revolution turns out to be trash, but so far the signs are positive.

>>714267061 (OP)
>trusting a kike
lol goy

>>714285612
Next time dont stick your dick in it

>>714275643
>Snoy sold more and they both got assfucked by Tendo to the point where the entirety of japan is now Ninty's private island and they were pushed back massively from Europe and the US
If that's winning, I don't want to see Xbox losing

>>714285030
It's an assertion where the complete absence of clear 'Is the Xbox division profitable?' information makes me think the burden of proof is on people saying 'Xbox is profitable.'

It's confirmed that the Xbox hardware is sold at a loss (per the Epic court docs), and all I can find is how much revenue the division makes but nothing about profit and MS, unlike Sony and Nintendo, explicitly does not discuss that and just lumps other MS stuff together when reporting to shareholders.

So, the burden of proof is on people claiming it makes a profit, because I'd love to see actual confirmation, especially if you factor in the $70b Activision deal.

this is total corporate incomitance and greed
aka system working as intended
i don't think removing woke or dei would've much difference in sales because if you are not putting up COD/Blizzard/sea of thieves numbers you might as well be worthless to them

>>714285402
Show me a single shred of evidence that Xbox was profitable prior to Activision acquisition.

Any company making profits wants to shout it from the mountaintops because it looks good to investors. MS has never ONCE said Xbox is profitable, and only ever lumps it with highly successful and profitable divisions.

>b-b-b-b-but they never said it WASN'T profitable
retard.

Are we gonna get massive layoffs at blizzard.corp?

Hoping.

>>714285617
Nintendo has a reputation of flying in an executive to scream at their foreign devs if they smell some slacking, and that is why so many of them produce masterpieces for Nintendo. Yet turn to shit without them.

Industry is way too bloated. Just like ubisoft game credits that go on for 40 minutes. Ridiculous

>>714285748
Nobody cares, we're just sad more people aren't being laid off anon. Go back to resetera.

>>714267061 (OP)
>the layoffs that bloomberg news reported on
lol now he's pretending he wasn't the one who wrote that article like the slimy rat he is.

>>714282016
yeah,here we go straight to the point and if someone try to start shit with it, just call him faggot and that's that

>>714285821
Won't somebody please think of the breast milk in the break room fridge?

>>714285790
No i asked you how you know it isnt profitable, then you went on a autistic rant

>>714282016
you gotta do the same shit here just in reverse. the real difference is on the other site, mods will just auto-ban you for saying things they don't like. Here they'll ban you for saying things they don't like, but only for 3 days and those things are usually just their autistic triggers like shit talking their waifu.

>>714268195
>2000 people to "work" on candy crush
Dont care

>>714285830
That's the japs for you, they operate on a whole other level

>>714285392
I love my series for BC. Some games like Dead Space and DS2 it's the best way to play them these days.

>>714285218
Hmmm, something is off then about the information coming out. I remember talking about the art with my co-workers and checking our chatlogs yeah you're correct. Project Blackbird was the sci-fi IP's codename that I saw. (I just searched blackbird and found the conversation from when we saw it, so I can confirm that your information is accurate to what I saw when I saw the artwork.)

So the question now is what exactly got reported as cancelled then? Jez says Blackbird got cancelled but called it a fantasy MMO which does not match what you or I saw or heard about it. I wonder if Jez's source is getting the name wrong, or conflating it with another game under the Zenimax Online banner.

>>714267061 (OP)
why do DEI and captialism go so hand-in-hand?
I can't be the only one who noticed that the bolder and more prominent a company's DEI policies, the softer the "CAPITALIST GREED" criticism from game journos over the past several years, when game journos still had some degree of relevancy.
On the contrary even, people used to run to the defense of these companies and would blame youtubers for expressing their dislike of the huge grift and waste of money that is making products nobody wants.

>>714286635
It's because the money flows down from the top, and top needs the proles at each other's throats so they don't realize how badly things are being managed. Just ask yourself what happened to OWS and you'll find most of this woke shit coincidentally started growing just as that movement was getting put down.

So is Perfect Dark getting cancelled? Please tell me it's cancelled.

>>714286635
>why do DEI and captialism go so hand-in-hand
They don't. Businesses are being infiltrated by communists who threaten to cancel you on social media and in with friends in the press if you don't alter you game to be "progressive".

>>714286926
We only have rumors saying it is.

>>714286825
This, OWS scared the absolute shit out of them and proved how deeply in bed corporate america was with the government. They unironically sicced feds on the movement to infiltrate and dismantle it. The idpol issue of the last 15 years is a direct result of that subversion, I'd almost say the absolute thoroughness and speed with which they neutered the left into impotency was a work of art in itself.

>>714287151
Ayo dis nigga went an got his ass buck broke in record time.

Biggest gaming glow-down?

>>714268263
And what makes you think people get to their desks before 8 AM?

>>714286926
Yep it is

>>714283992
>2000 devs for candycrush
>10 years of dev for "a few playable parts" for everwild
>corporate greed
lmao

>Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well
YES YES YES YES YES

https://archive.is/XT5JG

>>714278474
YOU- YOU STUPID FUCKING CHud! YOU FUCKING CHUD!

>>714286635
The left is only placated when there are brown people or rainbow flags all over a product, then capitalism isn't bad.

>entire studios getting canned
SHIIIEEEEEEEEEETTT

>>714284258
Thats will defund nypd and make a republican win next elections

>>714284258
Can't hear you with that israeli dick in your mouth

PAJEETSOFT MEXBOX'S TRANNOIDJANNOID JUST DELETE MY THREAD
SO THERE IS
>10% of KING staff laid off
>Significant number of layoffs at Zenimax
>MMORPG from Zenimax cancelled
>Everwild cancelled
>Cawaduty studios hit with layoffs
>Blizzard sending all staff to work from home
>Turn10 loses 50% of staff
>PERFECT DARK cancelled
>Rumors point to more games being cancelled which would be among Blade, Contraband, Project Mara and Fable

playstation won, now please for the love of all that is holy let the GaaS era end with the new leadership

>>714284258
Take this shit to /pol/. And he wasn't elected anyway, he just won the primary. The actual mayoral election is in the fall.

>>714288517
>Doubling down that Project Blackbird was a successor to ESO

Seriously, what the fuck got cancelled at Zenimax? I know that everything Jez has said today about it does not match what I saw and I know that the anon with friends at Zenimax was accurate too. I guess I'll just have to wait as the dust starts to settle.

>bLACKBIRD
Even the internal codenames are Woke

>>714282605
They're really not giving these employees any slack this time.

>>714287151
Everyone has an emotional “gas tank” and constant culture war fighting and making black power looking characters on the right instead of ones on the left, and trans bathroom and sports, and whites vs blacks vs Hispanics…. Blah blah blah, drains people’s emotional gas tanks so people won’t point their energy towards questions/issues like “how is money created?” “How come fake shares are circulating in u.s. markets?” And “how come external organizations write almost all of the bills congress then votes on?

Constant streams of race relations and other identity politics are pushed on purpose so people never try and redirect that energy toward more meaningful societal functions.

>>714289246
Blackbirds are based fuck off

>>714289246
You're mentally ill

>>714288861
what, the mmo got canceled??? fuck, zenimax made eso the best mmo out right now. if this is true, fuck

>>714283340
I mean half of that is just how much New Yorkers hate the Cuomo brothers. Even his own party dislikes them.

Once again Halo Studios gets out of this unscathed. Looks like in the end in the Master Chief vs Doom Slayer battle, Master Chief won. Now Chief will take his woman, Samus Aran, back.

I'm getting fatigued of winning, bros

>>714269409
There was one time my company did layoffs. Apparently nobody knew who was up for firing, but they had all staff come into the office and throughout the day HR would be walking the hallways tapping people on the shoulder. And that's how it was done.

>>714289542
The only reason they are still alive is because they are remaking halo 1 on ue5 that will be multiplat day 1 with switch 2 and ps5

>>714289542
There's been people tweeting about getting laid off from Halo Studios. They're having cuts.

>>714289673
As another anon astutely pointed out, chud can't win if MS cancels all the games he wasn't going to buy.

>>714288631
This but unironically, retards will vote for him, see shit get worse and get Republicans elected again.

Chud sisters

We HECKIN CANT stop winning

>>714289429
new mmo, 'blackbird' (unannounced, just codename). pls don't be retarded.

>>714288861
>fable
rip

>>714273903
Most of this is not post-tax. Most of their earnings is stock options that are not liquid. The CEO cannot sell it off, it's just a big number sitting there on paper.

>>714289789
Wrong picture—my bad!

>>714289789
>Payne
WHACK 'EM

>>714267283
Doesn’t McDonald’s pay like 20 an hour now? That’s probably way more than most people make, desu.

>>714279383
This. It's just retarded boomers doing retarded boomer things.

My uncle works at Xbox, take this as you will:
>Microsoft is still planning to shutter or downsize or merge more studios, specially the ones with not well known IP's, Microsoft is pivoting as a big AAA third party publisher, studios with AA or less known IPs most likely will be merged or axed
>Microsoft closing Arkane, Tango etc was most likely due to Activision purchase and they really really want to cut costs and maximize profits
>Microsoft is really really going full third party, this will be heavily pushed in 2025, and they're gonna hint at this at their upcoming Xbox Games Showcase in June
>Saarfield will release for PlayStation 5 in Fall/Winter of this year along with the expansion
>Contraband seems to be canceled, if they don't show it this year, it's most likely canned
>Perfect Dark is in development hell too, most likely will be canceled as Contraband.
>Microsoft is planning to revamp Gamepass, they're planning to hike the price and/or include tiers, day one games and Activision Blizzard games will be on the most expensive tier
>Microsoft is planning to announce a White Digital Xbox Series X on their upcoming June show, and most likely will hint/announce an Xbox handheld as well
>Next Xbox consoles will be Xbox branded third party machines, you will be able to buy from Steam, Epic, etc and Microsoft Store, most likely will be a niche product like Steam machines.
>Phil Spencer is planning to retire this year or early next year

>>714289897
Hiro, we need a /gg/ - Grifter General

>>714290034
>planning to announce a White Digital Xbox Series X
don't they have a massive *** obsession? why would they announce white things? seems kinda fake Tbh

>>714278051
So Perfect Dark was basically Xbox's equivalent of Anthem? Where they had one good vertical slice after a decade of work and then someone had to decide whether to nuke it all or not?

>>714290034
>>Phil Spencer is planning to retire this year or early next year
What the

>>714290259
>dei hire as the ceo of xbox
xbox was already kill but now a nuclear bomb is gonna go off

>>714288861
The only reason Forza exists is to sell the graphical capabilities of consoles. If Xbox is axing all physical hardware development, it makes sense they would sunset Forza. Milk it for what they can, but since it won't have a system to be a system seller for, there's no need for all that staff.

Xbox will end with the Series Xs.

kek

>>714284575
Microsoft said no pretty women allowed.

>>714288517
>its real.

god damn. wtf. What have these assholes been doing for 7 years? Phil is such a bitch ass pussy about making these soft faggots putting in work. All their studios have been fat blobs putting out dogshit. 343 has been an embarrassment for years and years.

>>714290034
>all bullshit.

but I believe it.

>>714290034
>everything in this post was real
Holy shit

>>714290759
I think Phil just has dogshit taste in games. He lets garbage like Fable and Infinite matriculate while stuff like Scalebound is killed.

>>714283992
Timdog status?

>>714289542
They won't touch 343i for the same reason they won't touch Obsidian. Despite them cranking out nothing but diarrhea recently, they will keep going back to the "hey, we have the studios that used to make games that you liked" nostalgia bait.

>>714290839
So Contraband is axed.

>>714290759
>what have these assholes been doing for 7 years?
My guess is a fatal combination of toxic positivity, poor executive oversight, incompetent jeets and DEI hires, and general 'design by committee' bullshit.

It'd be like if a doctor was operating on a guy with cancer, but instead of taking tumors out, he was just putting more in and wondering why the patient's condition never improved.

>>714291016
There's allegedly been layoffs at Halo Studios. The Halo brand is dead with a capital D, and whatever original audience it had is now in their 40s and might have kids of their own. They're not coming back to save this shit.

>>714290759
>god damn. wtf. What have these assholes been doing for 7 years?
It's literally the new meta. They know they will be laid off the moment they release a game, so they are doing nothing for 7+ years to get free paychecks. This happens in literally all the tech companies.

It's a fucking massacre out there.
Somewhat unrelated but has Nintendo ever had to go through layoffs like this?

>>714283957
>said every kike ever as the pogroms happen repeatedly every few decades for thousands of years.

psychopaths never learn from history
>b-but it can't happen to us
main character syndrome

As deserved.

Damn Xbox is at the final coffin nail huh? Fuck this timeline

IT'S OVER

https://x.com/TheGhostOfHope/status/1940460596995961190

>>714290759
Look at their last trailer. It was all cinematic bluesky gameplay. A ton of cool features promised, but absolutely none of it looked like it was part of a gameplay sequence. It was just the Beyond Good & Evil "In-Engine" trailer with some UI elements. There was nothing playable in there. The game itself is probably not even grayboxed.

I bet they spent 6 of the last 7 years changing directions on what they would do with Perfect Dark.

>>714291325
No. Iwata famously took a salary cut during the Wii U era specifically to avoid Nintendo having to do a round of them.

>>714291398
>only source is a random faggot on twitter
Phil won't quit until he completely destroys what's left of Xbox

>>714291382
Nah this is a great timeline. Go woke, go broke.

>>714291016
Halo is mainly safe because of novels, toylines, and Halo Champion Series, the Halo remake will also save it harder, and Infinite MP shockingly enough still isn't dead. But with everything that happened at Xbox, Halo feels like the only game of theirs I'm even interested in anymore.

>>714291398
I don't believe it until there's more sources on it.

>>714291325
>Nintendo
Not really, layoffs in Japan are hard due to their laws, and as the other anon mentioned, Iwata set the tone that that's not the kind of shit they get up to. They have done small scale layoffs in NOA in the past but that's pretty fuckin normal. However, Nintendo has slowly shifted a lot of their lower skilled labor to overseas contract work (US included here), where you don't have to do layoffs, but just send people the fuck home when you don't need them.

>>714267061 (OP)
Thank God I'm not a female wagie working a daycare job.

>>714291612
Japanese people actually have souls, unlike whites who are entirely consumed by greed

>>714291720
Xbox can go fuck itself, but I'm not a fan of the job market getting worse every month by flooding it with experienced people. This shit rolls downhill.

>>714291631
He's a CoD leaker so he prob heard something from Activision

>>714291325
Nintendo allegedly hires mostly contractors anyway and has very little core staff. Even then, they're not laying contractors off in huge waves otherwise you'd see every journo outlet talking about it because it's a chance to get easy press for punching at Ninty.

>>714291398
>next generation Xbox
What? Their shitty wannabe Steamdeck handheld thing?

What the actual fuck happened to xbox

>>714292082
None of these people they laid off are competent, they'll end up at McDonalds, Wal-Mart and in minimum wage restaurant/bar gigs as god intended. It's all browns, women, troons and soi-boys

>>714292620
Yeah, HR and recruiters are well known for their skills at figuring out that someone with 8 years experience is actually an incompetent piece of shit.

>>714292580
>MS getting jeeted
>executive incompetence

But the real deathblow was the completely baffling mishandling of the XBone, which killed their hardware brand. Everything else, even the games, were downhill from there.

>>714292580
Went on a hiring spree and then released either no games or lousy ones.

>>714267061 (OP)
>Lived long enough to see Turn 10 die
And for years people thought Gran Turismo would die before Forza

>>714292620
Stop speculating about the skilled labor market when you work retail faggot

getting bought by xbox seems like a kiss of death

>>714292819
Well you see little Timmy, your 'qualifications' on paper don't automatically mean you're actually good at your job. Which is why most of the shit being made in the West these days are dogshit to begin with. Cause nobody with a brain goes into the utter scam that is college anymore.

>>714292951
Sure thing Habib, make sure not to fuck up my pick-up order up at Wal-Mart this time.

>>714292949
and now forza is on playstation

>>714292506
No Next home console, thats likely cancelled

>>714288861
>Fable
nice

>>714267061 (OP)
honestly. You know what's gonna end up wrecking microsoft, nintendo, sony? It's games developed for apple silicone. this chips are already capable of running crazy games. Everyone has an apple device.

Apple could go after it and crush them.

>>714293035
How long have you been practicing your English? Your reading comprehension could use some work.

>>714291353
It can't, modern elites have drones and tanks on their side.

>>714293327
My reading comprehension is fine, I am simply implying you're a jeet that's simply projecting.

>>714293079
>new MS AAA-type console
They have to be clinically insane to attempt that when their current hardware is dead in Europe and being outsold 3, 4:1 everywhere else. There's nothing that could reinvigorate the Xbox hardware brand unless MS took an absurd loss and sold each console for $100.

>>714293295
Apple, like Valve, has realized that actually making games is a fool's errand and that you get rich by being the storefront where the people making games sell their shit. This is also why Apple wants their AppStore walled garden to endure for as long as possible.

>>714290759
>god damn. wtf. What have these assholes been doing for 7 years?
New meta is getting free paychecks until they're forced to release a game, because they know they'll be laid off the moment it gets out.

>>714293423
Let me spell it out for you, industries are filled with incompetent 'skilled labor' because HR and Recruiting are extremely bad at their jobs, and these layoffs aren't fixing that. The incompetent will get more jobs that match their years of experience rather than their merit. Competent people will struggle more to get jobs they deserve. Layoffs also don't exclusively target underperformers, every part of the process is flawed.

>the dilapidated city of OP

>>714284575
Genshin devs did come to MS at first (genshin devs worked at MS or something) but MS told them to fuck off with their anime girls.

>>714293426
>Apple, like Valve, has realized that actually making games is a fool's errand

Apple just needs to give more incentive to have games ported to silicone. they need to start investing in companies that do compatibility between windows and macos.

>>714293568
>New meta is getting free paychecks until they're forced to release a game, because they know they'll be laid off the moment it gets out.

lol. The studio was in santa monica. I wonder if these fuckers just sat around laughing at what a pay pig microsoft is. Many such cases.

>>714288861
>Blizzard sending all staff to work from home
well good for them

>>714281814
they might have been level builders and customer service people

>>714289789
but I don't get it, aren't game developers gamers as well? they're not one of us?

>>714275604
>assmad epic player

too much dopamine in one day

>>714290034
sounds legit enough but I can just as easily see them pivoting and changing plans significantly from what you said.

>>714295517
wowzee
this is like gamer's christmas!

>>714295517
God damn, what's next? Is Sony going to fire its Califag execs? My balls can't produce semen fast enough to keep up all this cumming.

>>714295517
didn't these fags canned all the political troons and started to focus on games?

>>714297081
That one is very concerned about their precious cuckold mods

>>714295517
Based

>>714297081
I remember there was one spergout for that exact reason years ago. Main owner at the time wanted them to cut down on political writing

In the walls and kinds of trannies

>>714293426
Nothing could reinvigorate the Xbox hardware brand unless MS took an absurd loss and sold each console for $100.

So its dead them

>>714292620
>None of these people they laid off are competent, they'll end up at McDonalds, Wal-Mart and in minimum wage
None of these developers have any skills they are like coal miners in 1800. Absolut worthless everybody with skills makes their own games or works in asia

>>714294461
Lmao, genshin is one of the motives thats the ps5 is the most profitable sony console

>>714294461
no fucking way they turned them down

>>714269932
King? What’s that

>>714297687
It's been dead. We've all just be standing around the corpse like we're archaeologists pouring over a new set of dinosaur bones or something.

>>714270379
I won't be fooled.

>>714295517
this may be the greatest start to a white boy summer ever

when I was an intern for a bank, they laid off the entire eight person team other than me (I just had a week left, it was a summer gig). Everyone was crying so much, it was horrible. It really soured my view of corporations from the getgo lol

>>714297951
It's a chinese company and they are up to no good.

>>714297081
They just switched to using one guy+Ai instead.

>>714294461
>>714297951
"Microsoft reportedly passed on the chance to make Genshin Impact an Xbox console exclusive, something the company regretted after the game blew up."

Lol

>>714297724
That's my point.

>>714298934
During the Activision acquisition I said that Xbox could buy 90% of the industry, but they would still fuck it up. Feels good to be proven right.

>>714267098
more like 2 hours lol

Hopefully they fired all the woke retards who think games shouldn’t feature white peoples prominently

>>714298934
>scientists baffled by one company's uncanny ability to fuck up every single time

>>714297958
Candy Crush maker.

>>714298439
Look, if you’re not going to be made permanent then be ready to jump ship at a moment’s notice.

>>714301137
wise words anon

>>714301137
everyone else on the team were FTE with 15+ years of tenure with the bank, it wasn't an intern team. But FTE or not, I agree that your resume and interviewing skills should always be sharp. I wasted too much time sitting in an abusive job where I wasn't given the pay I deserved given my seniority because "well eventually they'll pay and promote me :)"

>>714298934
what kind of pull does the xbox have with the asian market anyway, I think it'd get shut down like those titles we're seeing today if it was an exclusive. Or was it back when the mobile version was already out?

>>714298934
>>714300547
When was the last time Xbox made a good decision? Seriously, after so many fuck ups in a row one has to start wondering if it's an intentional self sabotage.

>>714301636
Apparently they approached when the game was still in early development.

It's over.

https://insider-gaming.com/phil-spencer-retiring-xbox-next-gen/

>>714302972
>unannounced survival game
Is that the one that was in development for 5 years and nothing to show? They also wanted to switch engines for a second time ?

>>714302972
>how about on the world of warcraft side of things

>>714302570
guess it would be dead on arrival

>>714302972
>DEI director
Kek

>>714302972
>wah my wife gave birth to our child
>please hire me
that's fuckin sad begging for a charity job. Just get a job nigga. We all got babies. I'm one lateness away from losing my warehouse job and insurance for my family including an 8 month old and nobody would care

>mfw xbox finally fucking dies

>>714302972
Caitlin Ou looks sexy.. where are all these cute girls in finance? wtf

>>714302972
>DEI director
>fag with pink hair
>make-work HR daycare jobs

And nothing of value was lost.

>>714276273
I don't know how these people don't immediately just know the jig's up when these photos get setup at this point. It really is a humiliation ritual at this point.

>>714302972
Every single one of them a middle manager. Anyone that's worked in these industries knows that "Game Producer" or "Senior Producer" means they did fuck-all. They spent 4 hours a day in meetings with other middle-managers huffing eachothers farts pretending their getting work done, then spend the other 4 hours scrolling through twitter or instagram.

>>714273451
>>Everwild has been cancelled as Xbox layoffs hit Rare
that's a shame it sounded fresh and a bit different, I was hoping for FPS populous etc

>>714275040
> fable might get killed at this rate.
sad

>>714293426
Apple has the added interesting problem where they're too fucking big and none of the departments talk to each other, and there's no central person like steve jobs or bezos anymore to really push a single vision. Some upper exec in charge of the app store and subscriptions wants more gaming on the platform, so they do a push to get modern games onto the app store and promote Apple Arcade. Simultaneously, the OS team who does not give a single fuck about gaming is depreciating everything not Metal related, killing all 32 bit apps, and generally making it not worth spending the time and effort to port shit.

That's the only explanation I could see for the downright baffling and disjointed messaging from Apple themselves when it comes to trying to get games on their platform.

>>714306614
Apple sounds like it's fallen into the bureaucratic bloat issue, like how the US government is basically a collection of competing fiefdoms that have entrenched interests that no one man (the president) can even dismantle without everything collapsing.

>>714278624
Nothing of value was lost

>>714306879
The funny thing is that it still COULD work, Amazon, Meta, and Nvidia are proof that even large corporations with a lot of fingers in a lot of different pies can have a unified front if you have a CEO with at least some overarching plan or vision. Tim Cook is just not the kind of guy who I could see wrangling Apple like that.

>the US government is basically a collection of competing fiefdoms that have entrenched interests that no one man (the president) can even dismantle without everything collapsing.
How do you fix this? Historically, how has this been done in the past, for ether corporations or countries? Or is it just a "things will keep getting worse until the shambling corpse finally dies" kind of situation?

New rumors are coming out that Machine Games may be getting closed down and the current project they were working on got canned.

>>714302972
>DEI director
>fag with pink hair
>make-work HR daycare jobs
You can't make this up

>>714302972
>look up jeremy because hes a white dude
>he was a fucking production consultant
lmao
safe to say nobody talented got impacted today

>>714267061 (OP)
Xbros... this isn't a fat W... not at all

>>714302972
KWAB YEAH

>>714307791
>how do you fix this?
You don't. Look up something called 'organizational inertia.' Once an entity gets too big, bloated, and bureaucratic, you're basically dealing with a cancer patient. You can't cure it, because the disease is everywhere; it's like putting a drop of vinegar in a bottle of wine, then trying to remove the vinegar.

>how has this gone in the past
Countries/businesses just collapse. We're getting into /pol/ territory, but go read an essay called 'The Fate of Empires' by Glubb.

>>714303856
i care
you're gonna make it brah

>>714298097
Mattrick killed it, and Spencer attempted to use necromancy to reanime the corpse, but it dont worked

Compulsion Games was also hit by M$ 4th layoff wave.

>>714309147
GOOD

>>714302972
>Anyone doing DEI got fired
>game projects that are nowhere near release after years got deleted

I dont see how this is bad, Xbox is finally cleaning up their leeches and parasites that think they can just sit around and work on a game for a decade without releasing anything.

>>714309416
lol, lemao even.

>>714267061 (OP)
ugly MF

>>714291398
she can't be worse than Phil Spencer anyway

>>714306614>>714307791
>>714306879

>Apple has the added interesting problem
That they only make a mobile ophone for wankers really. They are in afr more precarious position than people realise. The other 'rpoducts' shit liek apple TV and iwatches and other dross is just hanging off IPhones. Ita another walled garden innternet like AOL or Facebook and they always collapse. Apple was NEVER stronng on games, that was always PC and playstation territory, Macs were lucky if they got a few titles ported. Its an econsystem for cunts. Apple is pegged to India and China in a eveolving situation that is hostile to outsourcing manufacturing and globalised supply chains.
>>714307791
>Amazon
Is in trouble too becaus etheir business model is selling cheap crap from China but a huge slice of their revenue is selling server holsting and disk space.
>>714307791
>Nvidia
CUDA CUDA CUDA
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVEOPERS


The problem is. Azure, Google cloud and AWS fucking scuks compared top local computing whether server or desktop but no one is aloud say that anymore because its contrary to sociopathic marketing cunts. Gaming was better with good local computing campaign games than some always online compulsory multiplayer subsciption shit as weel. Software as a service is great for the seller and shit for the consumer, Microsoft has some strong rpoductions in email and database and active directory and will take years to die liek IBM but I think Nvidia will be the first with general AI and once you have that you can shit out better competeting software in days compulete with onine avatar guides and knowledge bases. How long before the hardware abstraction layer becomes a neural net? I tell you the first general machine intelligence authored operating system
t. Former senior Microsoft dev from the 90s

>>714310645
>DEI hire
>black woman replacing white man
Yeah, it's over

>>714302972
>the pictured layoffs are either failed soi-lient males, brown, or women
lol, lmao.

>>714310645
I think it was Brad Carpenter was the ONLY good head of Microsoft Gaming as it was back in the 90s.(Microsoft Combat Flight Sim, Close Compat, Freelancer, Midtown Madness). The Xbox (while I think teh later 360 blacks ones were good) was basically a shitty PC in its first incarnations and the Red Ring fuck up was enormous and expensive.

Microsoft did better letting game houses independently devlop games, that's how blizzard came to be in teh first place. MS shoudl have been focused on the APIs and throwing out a few games as tech demos. The only reason teh xbox 260 survived and thrived into the best console of its generation was it was powered by unlimited cash

>>714312772
This was ordered by an Indian CEO, the end result will defnitely be more indians in MSFT not less and they won;t have to be particularly capable as long as they have hindu names. That's the Indian way. They eat companies out like a tumour leaving it riddled with useless bobble heads and accounting scams.

>>714313132
Okay, Microsoft will crumble and get replaced then lmao.

gaming is fucked anyway because nintemdo made is about selling the shittiest thing to the dumbest people at the highest price
Microsoft canceled windows phoe just when it got good. The 2 TB Disc Drive xbox series X is by far ythe best machine for games out there and I bet you they start killing it off and cutting support etc just as they got it right

>>714313206
Not for decades if you disgree you ahve never worked in IT. Be grateful that OS/2 never won or you would never have been able to afford a PC in the first place. Shit like exchange, sql, active directory and dynamics will be around for decades either on prem or on the shit that is azure

>>714313132
MS has already been applying for more H1B visas even as these layoffs are getting announced, lmao

>>714313206
There is no replacements, Microsoft will drop out of hardware, Sony will then drop out of hardware. Corporate entities will be too afraid to jump into gaming, which is a shrinking market, and will just focus on mobile gaming. Console and PC gaming will be ruled by Nintendo and Valve.

>>714273903
What I wonder is how does one even become a fucking CEO or high ranked blue collar guy?

>>714312040

>That they only make a mobile ophone for wankers really.
I mean true, but the M4 (and potentially the M5) chips are kinda neat. I don't see apple losing it's "premium" status for a while, and they would have to make some truly catastrophically bad decisions to start to be in serious financial trouble.
>Azure, Google cloud and AWS fucking scuks compared top local computing
Yeah but I don't have immediate access to a supercluster anymore (and 90% of devs won't ever) so I will take what I can get which means cloud services, because how else am I supposed to get access to H100s?
>Gaming was better with good local computing campaign games than some always online compulsory multiplayer subsciption shit as weel.
Yeah but it didn't generate the PROFITS that shareholders wanted so we're suck in bullshit live service subscription hell forever because consumers are sheep and recurring payments are in I guess
>t. Former senior Microsoft dev from the 90s
Wtf he's based?!?

>>714315148
Start a company, become its ceo, get several rounds of venture capital investing then either sell your company for millions or go public. Boom, you're now part of the small pool of people who are on the shortlist of "potential ceo's" whenever theres a big shakeup from the board of directors or something.

>>714314745
>ruled by Valve
You can only get me so hard anon. Better than being ruled by Microjew at this point.

>>714280974
Only reason they buy those games is because they cant play dlc on the gamepass version, even if they buy the dlc.
gamepass needs a more expensive tier that comes with dlc. At least for first party titles.
having to buy the whole game to play dlc makes people think the whole gamepass thing is pointless hassle if they are gonna buy the whole game later anyway.

>>714267061 (OP)
>trimming the DEI POC fat
NATURE IS HEALING

>>714289326
Goddammit Carlos!

Why are the chuds so happy for their demise? Do you realize that Microsoft and Blackrock have unlimited funds and will keep pushing woke games but instead of talented left devs, now it's incompetent indians. Enjoy retards.

>>714322939
No such thing as a talented leftoid dev lmao, we were getting garbage regardless.

>>714269932
>>SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF LAYOFFS AT ZENIMAX


LOL, DOOM DARK AGES FLOPPED HARD

>>714270193
Some marketing people got cut, but nothing major it looks like.

>>714267098
I bet you sure feel retarded now.

>>714272661
>Perfect Dark is YEARS behind schedule and carrying a heavy price tag
Not anymore, it's fucking gone, LOL

>>714292082
>experienced people
>troons and browns taking 10 years to make one foliage model

>>714324648
Retard.

>>714267061 (OP)
reminder people who got laid off this time are giga fucked, even more than normal

>>714275794
Fuck you nigger. Take your gay PlayStation and shove it up your ass like the BWC your mama takes

>>714282082
Don't give me hope