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[shikamaru317]

trunkswd said:

shikamaru317 said:

Yeah, when you think about it, since the start of this generation, Xbox has closed 2 studios (Arkane Austin and The Initiative), merged one (Roundhouse merged into Zenimax Online's Wisconsin studio), and divested 6 (Tango Gameworks, Arkane Lyon, Compulsion, Undead Labs, Double Fine, and Ninja Theory). 

Sony, since late 2020 when PS5 released, has closed 7 studios (Pixelopus, Neon Koi Berlin and Helsinki, London Studio, Firewalk, Dark Outlaw, and Bluepoint Games), and shut down every team at Japan Studio except for the Astro Bot team which became Team Asobi.

Either way BOTH have laid off thousands of employees. Bungie alone went from 1,600 when acquired and is now down to 400 or so. Xbox is laying off ~2,500 this fiscal year. (3,200 figure includes the studios leaving Xbox, so subtracting their estimated number of employees). Xbox laid off 1,900 or so last year if I recall.

Tens of thousands have been laid off across gaming in the last few years.

Yep, when you look at it Xbox and Playstation both grew too much too quickly (in Xbox's case, they grew too much trying to expand their gamepass catalogue with more varied games, in Sony's case they grew too much chasing GaaS during the Covid gaming spending boom).

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