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Zippy6 said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

LOL amazing. Some things just don't change.

Slash marketing budgets???? There's barely been any marketing this gen at all! You have to imagine there's a very real danger that Double Fine and Compulsion may get shutdown.

Wouldn't be Xbox without good news followed immediately by bad news.

The timing of this release is really perplexing. You'd think they'd wait a bit while they're riding some positive buzz from the Xbox showcase. But they immediately put this out. Perhaps their hand was forced by the Bloomberg article, but if this email was always going up on xbox.com publicly today then... just a really poor decision on timing.

Yeah, if the layoffs aren't happening until after the fiscal year results, I don't see why they needed to sour the good mood the Xbox Summer Showcase created this soon with some bad news. Layoffs were always going to happen of course, Asha inherited a bloated beast that is losing money, and something had to give somewhere. I just hope the layoffs aren't at too many of the studios, would rather see bloated middle management within Xbox itself go.