| firebush03 said: Looks like Arkance might be on the chopping block as well. Shame that Microsoft seems to be shifting gears away from supporting smaller studios/projects in favor of their heavy hitting Halo, Gears of War, Forza Horizon, etc. titles, but I suppose its unrealistic to run operations as large as they had… this is the cost of acquiring major studios. |
That makes five studios possibly getting closed, sold off, or able to go independent.
- Ninja Theory
- Double Fine
- Compulsion Games
- Undead Labs
- Arkane Lyon
Most of Xbox will also likely see some percent laid off as well. We are likely talking 1,500 or more laid off. But we shall see. Xbox has a little under 20,000 employees at this point.
I get why Asha wants to put more focus on its biggest IPs as that is working quite well for PlayStation as they are mainly focusing on only a handful of big IPs. But it still sucks to see so many people getting laid off. Mind you there have been major layoffs at pretty much all big western publishers/studios.
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