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shikamaru317 said:

trunkswd said:

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 (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).

Yeah and now both are cutting costs...while raising prices. Though hardware going up is due to storage and memory costs increasing so much. You can blame Microsoft partially for that as they are investing in AI along with so many other companies.