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[trunkswd]

JRPGfan said:

does this show?

https://x.com/nib95_/status/2074429250799649276

edit: 
Nope.. didn't work.

Anyways its a twitter/x post from NIB, re-posting stuff from a bloomberg article. 
Anyways the long and the short of it:

2024
Xbox ~22,000
PlayStation 12,700

2026 Xbox ~12,800
PlayStation ~12,008

They fired a ton of people, over the last 4 years.
That is the crazy part. I'm not sure if this is accuracte, as I cant even read the bloomberg article (its paywalled).


*edit 2:
Googled it, and the Ai says 12,800-13,000, as the current headcount at xbox.

The Bloomberg article never mentioned the new headcount at Xbox. But as far as I am aware they haven't laid off 10,000 employees across the layoffs the last few years. Even when you add in the employees part of the 5 studios being divested. 

I would never trust AI announces. I just did a search for how many people work at Xbox and the AI answer at the top says "Xbox currently employs approximately 18,000–20,000 people following recent layoffs and restructuring."

Digging deeper I see BEFORE the 2024 cuts there were ~22,000 employees across all of Xbox. 1,900 were laid off in 2024 bringing the total to ~20,000 (VGChartz article). The latest round adds up to 3,200 laid off - 1,600 this week and 1,600 more by June 2027 (VGChartz article). That would bring the total to ~16,800. Then add the unknown number laid off from the July 2025 layoffs, but taking a look is most likely under 1,000 (VGChartz article). So we are likely talking Xbox will have ~16,000 employees once the next 1,600 people are laid off.

Blizzard alone has 6,000+ employees and will likely see the biggest layoffs with the remaining 1,600. Xbox Game Studios and ZeniMax/Blizzard have already been hit pretty hard while ABK was barely touched. 

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