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shikamaru317 said:

Ryuu96 said:

One thing that set MS apart from Sony too was their focus on variety, AAA-AA-A, Game Pass allowed creativity and fun smaller projects, niche projects, etc. While Sony was pushing into focusing solely on AAA cinematic blockbusters and gutting everything else.

Phil said Xbox can't just be PlayStation but green but that's exactly what they're doing with this move.

Don't know if Phil himself has changed course, or if he is being overrode by the bean counters like CFO Amy Hood. Either way, seems like the focus is going to be on the highest selling IP moving forward, meaning CoD, Halo, Forza, Gears, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Doom mainly. Some mid-tier projects may be safe, but bottom tier passion projects like HiFi and Grounded and Pentiment are clearly dead at Xbox.

This is all Phil.  Phil report directly to the CEO so anything happening withing gaming at MS is pretty much his decision and Satya.  Not sure why everyone suddenly figured out MS is and has always been a US corporation.  Its like this news is a shock to you all but in reality its pretty much goes along with MS MO.  Business that are not holding their own get shuttered.  The thing I am looking to see if all the dev roles are released or did they just move them into Bethesda while they release the non dev roles which are not needed.  Either way, not enough information for me to fully understand the direction and scope where why this move was needed but then again, those dismal hardware sales could be a reason to restructure the ship.