Summary
- Microsoft is laying off three percent of its workforce, which represents over 6,000 employees.
- It's unknown if Xbox has been specifically affected.
- It's been a time of great change for Microsoft's gaming arm.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Microsoft has confirmed an🌠other round of layoffs, which will affect over 6,000 employees aཧt the conglomerate, around three per cent of the workforce.
In a statement given to , Microsoft spokesperson Pete Wootton said, "We continue to implement organisational changes necessary to best position the company for succeꦬss in a dynamic marketplace."
According to repo🔥rting from The Verge, these cuts are occurring at all levels of Microsoft, and across all the company's associated businesses. It's unknown if Xbox is specifically affected by these layoffs, but other Microsoft-owned ventures such as LinkedIn have suffered layoffs.
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Microsoft's gaming arm suffered a substantial round of layoffs last June, losing over 1,900 jobs across Xbox and Activision Blizzard. Shortly before those layoffs, Xbox closed Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austi🏅n, with th♉e former having been revived by Krafton after the fact.
It's a time of great chan♈ge for Xbox, as the publisher and hardware developer has completely changed its business strategy over the last year. Xbox has all but abandoned the idea of exclusive releas𒉰es, porting many of its first-party releases to PlayStation 5.
This is certainly a commercially successful strategy, given the success of Xbox's games on PlayStation 5. Last month, Oblivion Remastered, Minecraft, Indiana Jones, Forza Horizon 5 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle all appeared in the top spots on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation's bestsellers list.
This inconsistent strategy, which has Gears of War being ported to PlayStation, but Avowed and South of Midnight remaining exclusive, has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:baffled developers who have encouraged console competition in the past, in order t𒅌o prevent Son🀅y or Nintendo from holding an inordinate amount of market share in the space.
One bright spot for Microsoft is Game Pass, which 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:appears to be thriving after the release of Oblivion Remastered and surprise hit Cla🃏ir Obscur: Expedition 33 on the platform in the same week.
- Founded
- April 4, 1975 ൲
- Notable Franchise
- 🌳 Halo, Gears of War, Fable
- Notable Video Games
- ♛ Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo: Combat♍ Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Reach, Halo Infinite, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3, Gears of War 4, Gears 5, Fable, Fable 2, Fable 3
- Notable Video Game Consoles
- Xbox Series X, Xbox Se🎐ries S, Xbox One X, Xbox One S, Xbox O༒ne, Xbox 360, Xbox (Original)
