A Reason for all of the MS Gaming Division Firings!

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Hammer-of-Dawn said:

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

Hammer-of-Dawn said:
^ in their defense, who really cares for MS Flight Simulator games nowadays????

Games for WIndows LIVE is a small operation as it is, gamerscore blog gives information that can be readily found on gaming news sites like Kotaku and even Xbox.com. Game testers are largely expendable and hardly essential as MS outsources their games to 3rd party studios (like Epic with Gears of War).

So really, its not all that bad. Sony on the other hand is cutting 16000 jobs, plus 2000 in Japan, plus more "headcount" reductions.

 

How many jobs is Sony Computer Entertainment cutting?

 

As far as I know the 16000 and 2000 in Japan arent the games division but I believe the further "headcount" reductions will cover the games division among others as well.

But that sentence was off-topic and I dont want to start an argument. Just some notice to anti-360 posters: dont play the job cut card for ownage, you have it much worse.

I think the 1,400 ex-Microsoft employees and the 16,000 ex-Sony employees have it much worse.  I think that we should take a step back from the debate when we start to see these things happen to people.