Playground has or will have a 3rd team. They’re aiming for 400 employees. A team in Newbold on Avon, another in Royal Leamington Spa and last on Street. All of those in the UK.

Odd responses, I don't recall them responding to the tweet last year, though it's probably nothing.

Playground is expanding fast now.Between the 2 studios LinkedIn says they have 198 current devs, but with 92 open positions they'll be passing 300 by E3 maybe. Maybe just maybe they can get both Forza Horizon 5 and Fable reboot out in 2021 if they keep it up, they've had since late 2018 to work on Horizon 5, and they first started hiring for the RPG studio in 2017, with RPG work being done in the first office until they built the 2nd office in 2019. 

Initiative on the other hand, I wonder if they really can manage to get their game out in a reasonable amount of time considering how slowly they are expanding. They've been open for a year and a half now and are only up to 41 devs, with another 13 open positions according to this. MS keeps calling them AAAA, which is basically just a buzzword for a large AAA studio, but large AAA's have like 300+ devs, will take them ages to hit 300+ at this rate. 

Obsidian has 191 currently, with the 23 job listings they will pass 200. The Grounded team is supposedly very small, like 12 devs, and The Outer Worlds team apparently wants to stay below 100 devs, so that leaves over 100 who will be working on the rumored AAA 3D Skyrim like Pillars of Eternity game. Hopefully they can get that team up to at least 150 eventually. 

Those 16 at Turn 10 will bring them up to over 140. Doesn't sound like alot, but you have to remember that Turn 10 contracts out alot of work on making car models and such to independent devs. 

Korea is one of the few countries where game streaming actually works, thanks to the fact that Korea has fast, cheap internet relative to other countries, coming in at #1 on both home and mobile internet speed among all countries. I'm reading that Koreans can get 1 gbps internet for a mere $20 a month, it costs $110 a month to get 1 gbps where I live.

Wouldn't surprise me if Phil acquired a South Korean dev to help with adoption there. Consoles largely fail in Korea, but xCloud offers them an opportunity to break into a PC/Mobile dominated market. Korea is one of the few countries where game streaming actually works, thanks to the fact that Korea has fast, cheap internet relative to other countries, coming in at #1 on both home and mobile internet speed among all countries. I'm reading that Koreans can get 1 gbps internet for a mere $20 a month, it costs $110 a month to get 1 gbps where I live.

Even if Phil doesn't acquire a Korean studio, I look for MS to make some big console exclusivity deals on Korean MMO's and such to try and get people in Korea to play them on xCloud.

I'm paying $77 a month for 80 mbps currently, which is the 2nd cheapest plan that Comcast offers in the US. Cheapest is 25 mbps for $50 a month. The only other options besides Comcast where I live are Verizon DSL which is I think $35 a month for 2.5 mbps, mobile hotspots which are expensive and have small data caps, and satellite internet, which is expensive, has huge ping times, and small data caps. Comcast sucks ass, and they are the largest ISP in the US. They basically went around and bought up all of the smaller local cable companies in many areas of the US, and now have a monopoly stranglehold on those areas.