Microsoft Gaming has been growing every quarter in revenue and profit, they've got multiple of the best selling games on multiple platforms, their profit margins are consistently singled out recently as being strong, growing and even contributing to improving "More Personal Computing" overall profit margins, Game Pass continues to grow according to NPD every single month and they're almost certainly about to post a record breaking Q4 thanks to all their ports and releases they've had.
*Major Layoffs Time*
I hate Satya Nadella and Microsoft as a whole. They're one of the most cutthroat greedy companies out there, no amount of profit is ever good enough for them. Though this is capitalism for you, Microsoft in particular takes the piss with it, it's just layoffs after layoffs after layoffs from Microsoft, Satya and Microsoft Executives don't give a fuck about nurturing talent, employees or the long-term view, they're just obsessed with short-term profits and making the line go up more than last quarter.
Personally, I think Satya's obsession with AI will backfire on Microsoft eventually as well. Dude is going to make Microsoft into the most soulless corporation around, all for an overhyped concept like when he was banging on about the Metaverse but worse, I'm still waiting on AGI and how it will revolutionise and change the world, while Microsoft sinks tens of billions into AI and everyone else suffers as a result. Satya's end goal is replacing all workers with some AI bullshit, better hope he isn't tricked again and it's another 700 Indian engineers.
The Quebec/Montreal videogame industry is very rough right now, something to do with Quebec no longer giving out subsidies which they used to do a lot and it helped videogame studios stay operational, now all that funding is being taken away and a lot of Quebec/Montreal studios are now struggling and/or closing with major companies also considering pulling out so Compulsion might be on the chopping block, but no longer receiving government handouts in an expensive area isn't an excuse for a trillion dollar corporation that wouldn't even notice it. Hope for no studio closures though, I'll probably take a break from gaming once again if any studios get closed, go back to TV Shows and Nintendo, Lol.
I really should just move to Steam so I don't have to feel like I'm directly supporting this bullshit. Least problematic company and ecosystem, apart from the garbage they allow on it and the trash Steam forums but I don't give a fuck about socialising in those areas, Lol. Maybe the Xbox Rog Ally will be the start of my transition to PC/Steam. Every single time this happens it essentially destroys my mood to play games and I end up taking lengthy breaks, despite me playing a ton of games this year and having a lot on my backlog.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 24 June 2025
