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Zippy6 said:

Ryuu96 said:

Microsoft will lay off approximately 650 people from its gaming team, the company's head of gaming, Phil Spencer, told employees in an email to team members this morning.

So that brings the total this year for Xbox up to 2,550 I believe. How many weeks until we hear from the next publisher/studio about a few hundred more. 2,550 jobs is the price paid by workers when a $70 Billion acquisition takes place. They were never going to not cut the fat, but without the Activision acquisition there likely would have still been some layoffs judging by the rest of the industry.

This time around the affected positions lead me to believe Xbox might be close to done with restructuring or at least it kind of feel like they're in the last steps. The fact that no project were impacted along with other news of studios expanding I think this might be it.