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Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division (archive.is)
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/microsoft-plans-major-job-cuts-at-xbox-gaming-division

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why? What about their strategy right now it because of the way things are changing?

None of it is. It is because of mismanagement that happened with Don Matrick and the OG Xbox one focusing on fucking cable hookups and banning their users from borrowing physical games.

That corporate garbage in Xbox NEVER fully disappeared and now they're reaping what they sowed.

Also not releasing an exclusive game worth buying since before 2014 is a wild strategy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Why? What about their strategy right now it because of the way things are changing?

Accepting other storefronts on their platform going forward, choosing to instead make their money via Game Pass and third party publishing. An Activision or Bethesda acquisition made great strategic sense when you needed to lock up exclusives for the way consoles used to work, but in the time it took for Activision to go through, they realized that strategy no longer makes sense. It's a huge paradigm shift to decide to no longer take a cut of every "Xbox" game sold the way that Nintendo and Sony do, for now, but it's in their best interest long term to be the first to do so.