Layoffs in Gaming (Current State of the Gaming Industry)

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JRPGfan said:

trunkswd said:

I spent over an hour discussing the current state of the gaming industry and all the massive layoffs. There have been around 7,800 laid off in just the first 2 months of 2024. This compares 10,500 laid off in all of 2023 and 8,500 laid off in 2022.

It was only 10,500 in 2023?

Didn't MS alone at one point layoff like 10,000+ people.
A good portion of that was from xbox studios?

I tried to google and the only thing I really found was :  https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2023

That seems to support the 10,500 number for 2023.

However I wouldn't be surprised if actual numbers where higher than these estimates.

That was MS as a whole. Not their entire gaming division. Only official number we have was 60 employees from 343. All of Bethesda’s studios combined have 2,000 employees.

Xbox didn’t lose 10,000 employees last year because they don’t even have that many employees lol.

Blizzard alone has more employees than Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda combined.