May the people find other jobs elsewhere if this rumor is true.

When Microsoft lays off you got their defense force arriving to say well Sony lays off too. While yes sadly, but not as much and not from buying up major publishers and cutting jobs soon after. This will be Xbox’s 4th major layoff in 18 months.

Gaming industry all together has been rough for last 3 years. It’s not the same as it use to be. It’s harder and harder to rebound from a not well received game. You almost have to strike oil on every attempt.

Hopefully the entirety of 343 or whatever they call that studio now gets shuttered.

Pretty impressive to destroy a top 5 IP in less than 10 years and nobody seemed to really care.

Like I've been saying. They are going to streamline. Those AI mobile games are going to be off the chain.

This is a serious moment, and it deserves to be treated as such. On one hand, gamers are hearing that we're hard at work on the next-generation Xbox—pushing the boundaries of what's possible, or so the message goes. On the other hand, there's a steady drumbeat of layoffs, raising tough questions about where the industry is heading and who gets left behind.

AI is rapidly becoming the unseen architect of the blockbusters to come—yes, even the Call of Duty of the future could be built less by teams of passionate developers and more by algorithms trained to optimize engagement. That shift doesn't sit easily with everyone.

And maybe that’s partly why people like Panos Panay and Phil Beliore decided it was time to step away. When innovation takes a back seat to quarterly returns—when vision is replaced by the safe, upward climb of a revenue graph—it’s fair to ask what’s being lost in the process.

This isn't just a story about tech. It's a story about what we value, and who gets to shape the next chapter.

right next to an article about MS introducing AI chatbot

MS is currently worth around $3.55 trillion, and they need to layoff? Think about that. The useless Governments around the world need to get off their asses and get involved and investigate, and see if these layoffs are needed, which really are not.

Insert Sarah bond's REM as she sells it as a plus to the whole industry

Makes sense. MS spent nearly 100 billion dollars to take Xbox from third place to third place.

phil needs to tighten those reins and that's exactly what he's doing, xbox would be dead if it wasn't for phil and his emails

Phil and his team...safe again!

With AI coming into its own, we’ll see a lot more of this.

Well what can one expect when you get all of the games “free” through GamePass?

I’m surprised this hasn’t been happening on a quarterly basis at XBOX, because ain’t no way they are making great profit with the Game Pass model.

Annnd management will give themselves pay rises

At this point there's two guys left working on nextbox in the basement using two tin cans and some string for party chat

Yep saw this on Twitter. I'm not remotely surprised I even said the would still lay ppl off no matter how good they're doing. In facts they've been doing lay offs to since the year started and will continue to do so. Scummy, shitty, terrible greedy MS is what theyll always be.

Shame, the economy is pure sht. Idk how the average person gonna make it.

Who didn’t see this coming when they bought 2 of the largest gaming publishers??

MS doesn’t care about most of the studios and the people they employ. MS wants the IP and a good chunk of the studios are seen as unnecessary after they gain control of their IP.

It was seen as some win for Xbox even though Xbox gamers would get those games anyway. It ended up the way many of us predicted, being bad for everyone.

This is a sad situation. I don't know why Xbox didn't roll back the prices of their consoles after China made a deal with the tariff.

That console is basically unsellable at this point because their main competitor was already Perceived as the default console and now it is cheaper.

Start with Phil. The Xbox division has been awful under his leadership. If not for Microsoft money, Xbox would no longer exist.

I bet shortly after brag about having record profits

Bye Phil, bye Bonnie, bye Sarah.

Just the beginning. Next 5 yrs we will see more layoffs than we’ve ever seen.

It's TRAGIC that so many talented people within the gaming industry, Are been made redundant. Because multi-billionaires/ millionaires are putting increased profit. Before the very people. Who created the products that built up their global wealth. Unionisation should happen. To ensure this people's jobs are properly protected.

microsoft wants another console generation reset and wishing they'll win this time around

when will learn your lesson old man

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau