[The Verge] Major Layoffs Impacting Microsoft Gaming/Xbox: there’s online speculation that entire studios could be closed, and I’ve heard from sources that Turn 10, the studio behind Forza Motorsport, is bracing for cuts
[The Verge] Major Layoffs Impacting Microsoft Gaming/Xbox: there’s online speculation that entire studios could be closed, and I’ve heard from sources that Turn 10, the studio behind Forza Motorsport, is bracing for cuts
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Consolidation of the video game industry fucking sucks.
Wow great use of all of those studios they bought amazing work guys
Their last update was 1 new car and reintroducing all the cut FOMO content which will drip feed monthly for the foreseeable future until its all re-added. I knew the instant they announced that, the game is on life support. Makes no sense to keep paying for the dev team.
Welp this and the current economy right now isn’t a good sign as we speak that we won’t go through a major crash on both sides.
Microsoft are scumbags. Don’t get me wrong, Motorsport was awful, but cutting the studio down ain’t going to fix that.
Is this Xbox “mailing it in”? I understand the game GamePass and a handheld coming but clearly this isn’t got that AI money Microsoft is chasing.
At least you guys got call of duty on game pass amirite?
But I thought Gamepass was a success…
If i had to guess Ninja Theory and Complusion games are most likely to be closed
bUt gAMeP@sS iS AM@zINg 🙄
Just pack the “whole” Xbox brand up. That will save them way more money!
Ai is coming for everyone
I haven’t enjoyed the more recent Forza Motorsports, but this still hurts to see. Microsoft has mismanaged FM since 5, but the devs are the ones paying the price.
M$ is a fucking mess. Xbox is dead and will become a tile on any service. Since the purchase it’s been going downhill. The best is to split up the Xbox division and be on its own. But yes as a console manufacturer it’s done and buried….
This makes sense. They gave turn 10 like 6 years to make a simple racing sim and the game still came out botched and unfinished. That’s both a developer and a publisher failure.
Unfortunately only one of them will pay the price for that.
If they close undead labs I will buy a PS5 the moment I hear it.
Should be Halo Studios
Oh good online speculation.
I’ll wait for actual news and not just desperate outlets posting tweets and reddit posts.
Somehow this will be Nintendos fault.
While this sucks and its scary for alot of those developers right now, I am sure a good amount of new studios will pop up because of this.
Heads of studios, or even people near the top will want to create their own videos games just like the teams at Sandfall or Rebel Wolves.
This could be an artistic blessing to them instead of being stuck in the corporate bull crap.
But I am looking for the silver lining out of all this.
I suppose it shouldn’t be really surprising that a gaming subreddit is full of people naive enough to expect a corporation to operate as a charity.
Microsoft has always started their new fiscal year and done big layoffs in July, after increasing in size the rest of the year. This is business as usual for a 3.6 trillion dollar company.
Unchecked capitalism and expectations of infinite growth strike again?! Who knew.
And people shit on Nintendo for how they run their business. Yet you never hear about them pulling this shit. They put out top tier stuff and roll teams from one project to the next.
Until now these headlines are never specific on which studios,
Microsoft: Hey lets give this out this niche game away for free on game pass.
Also Microsoft : O no this studio is not making money – i guess we have to downsize it
Like you already know Motorsport was super niche as is.
Don’t like people losing their jobs, but if any do it should be 343 – they’ve been failing upwards for years.
What were they buying up all those studios for then if they weren’t gonna have them make games? Shortsighted idiot moves
Business as always. Xbox executives will get a bonus. More hiring and training, executives get bonus and layoffs again.
Would be awesome to play that game on PS5 and Steam deck (FM8)
Now why in the hell would Microsoft go killing off their cash cow racing game?
But sure it was definitely okay for them to buy up all those studios right?
Is this the power of gamepass
well, the latest forza was pretty trash so not really surprised there.
Not too surprising really. Compared to Nintendo and Sony Interactive Entertainment, Microsoft Gaming has thousands more employees than them. Activision before the acquisition was twice as large as Nintendo employee wise with just half the revenue. Activision seems way too bloated for really only having one major cash cow.