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smroadkill15 on 07 July 2025
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curl-6 said:
smroadkill15 said:

There are also mang devs who have praised Game Pass. More than any concerned voices. 

I'm not saying Game Pass doesn't cannibalize sales, it obviously does depending on the game, but that is the trade off for devs getting a paycheck to put their games on the service. 

What does this have to do with Xbox's layoffs? 

I mean, the fact they're shutting down studio after studio and laying off thousands of thousands of workers doesn't suggest that their business model is sustainable.

These 9000 layoffs were global wide across the entire company. If it was only Xbox, I would agree, but it wasn't. Most of these layoffs were in departments outside of gaming. Xbox just had it's best quarter in gaming and was profitable. We already know MS is investing heavily into AI and these layoffs are happening the same time this is happening. We know MS wants to save money with AI by cutting jobs. This was always going to happen, no matter how successful Xbox was.