Mnementh said:
We know this, but do the managers? I doubt many people in the C-Suit in these big companies do play games. For movie execs it might be they maybe watch one or two movies a year, which at least gives them *some* insight in what they are selling. But upper management at MS probably don't play. The Xbox people do, but how much are they under pressure by Nadella and people on their level? |
They obviously don't, Microsoft executives have zero clue about the entertainment or consumer market and they never will, the company is so fixated on business it will never be able to understand, Satya is drooling at the thought of replacing all Xbox employees with AI. All American corps are cutting back on employees though, treating them horrendously and focusing on big IP only. It doesn't excuse any of them though, because they're only doing it so line goes up faster than fast. It's simply pure and utter greed, toxic American capitalism.
We are profitable and sustainable, we are growing too, but IT'S NOT ENOUGH! FUCK YOU ALL! - American Capitalism.
Microsoft doesn't understand the damage it will do with all these layoffs or closures and the destruction of employee morale, but Microsoft likely doesn't care, because they're going to replace them all with underpaid, overworked outsourced companies, and whatever is left they're going to try to replace with AI. Microsoft does not and never will understand the importance of art and creativity.
Really wish Xbox could somehow spinoff from Microsoft as an independent company but unfortunately I think that would cause even more problems because while Xbox is profitable, I doubt it would be profitable enough to make big moves as an independent business. We do know they were making low single digit profits in the billions pre-ABK though and ABK itself was making profits in the mid-high single digits.
I would make a guess that Xbox's profit margins right now are high single digits - low double digits so about 7-13% but I've been seeing that Microsoft apparently demands a 30% profit margin at minimum of most of their businesses which will mean layoffs basically every single year and cut backs everywhere until they reach that.
