| Ryuu96 said: Sigh. During a town hall with ZeniMax staff on Wednesday morning, Xbox president Matt Booty praised Hi-Fi Rush but did not specify why the company had shut down the development studio behind it, according to three people who were in attendance. The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished. This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Others across the Xbox organization have been told that more cuts are on the way. Xbox Studio Closures: Microsoft Plans More Cost-Cutting Measures After Layoffs - Bloomberg Matt Booty's comment makes zero fucking sense. |
I disagree but it only depends on who actually get cut and who does not. I think people look at a studio and think of an independent development studio but to be honest, it's just another division of the main company. Meaning that if I have separate teams for marking, HR, operations and other jobs that is duplicated throughout the company that is a lot of redundant positions. You can literally just remove those business units and combine all of the relevant staff as different teams within the same company. You do not need to have multiple studios. So, it really comes down to exactly how is MS is consolidating these studios into Bethesda. While MS closed those studios, did they offer staff jobs on teams within Bethesda or did they get rid of all the development staff along with the other positions. Since I have not looked into who stayed and who goes, it's not yet determined how the restructure is going but I actually do agree that just having a bunch of separate studios isn't always the best setup as we can look at embracers to see how well that goes.
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