I dont think a crash is gonna occur, or at least in extent to what happened in the 1980s.

Its gonna be a cultural shift and change and digital is likely gonna be the format going forward.

Regardless of what happens, I dont think it will or should affect anyone's future whether they will play games or not. Things change and they've always been changing.

We went from tapes to cds and now digital/streaming.

With one of the rumors saying the next nintendo system will be b/c with digital copies of games (I hope its b/c with both digital and physical myself personally) - it looks like everyone is heading towards a digital road.

Potentially! I would've passed it off as PC gaming just having the ability of playing every game with every controller. I.E. I played Ratchet & Clank with an Xbox controller that had Xbox icons in-game, but I didn't know that it included the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. I don't think I've seen that in a non-PlayStation Studios PC release before in general. 

Do you think these recent layoffs will affect Xbox games coming out

Apparently the average percentage of employees laid off in the wake of a merger is 30%, so with
Xbox laying off 9% they only laid off 1/3rd the typical amount.

There are quite a few games that have support for it on PC that aren't Sony titles. But I believe hifi rush would be the first title with it that isn't available on PS5. I imagine most are just porting their work for adaptive triggers and haptic feedback from the PS5 to the PC so for a non-ps5 game to get it is quite unusual, especially 1 year after launch and after the recent rumours.

You made me think and I just realised how none of my nieces or nephews have physical copies of games, Lol. In fairness, all they play is Fortnite/Minecraft/Roblox/COD but some of them hardly touch their console either, instead opting to play Roblox on mobile, makes me feel old sometimes because I don't understand why they'd rather play on mobile but they seem better with a touch screen than a controller. In the future we'll have kids smashing us on mobile while we're playing console/pc, Lol.

At least the shareholders are happy.... closing above 3 trillion dollar.

The industry right now is pretty brutal, 1900 is a lot, in terms of a percentage though, it's in line with other recent layoffs, with some even exceeding it, Unity cut 25%, Twitch cut 35%, Playtika cut 10%, Thunderful cut 20%, CI Games cut 10%, Riot Games cut 11%, Reikon cut 56%, Bungie cut 8%. Starting off at around 10% and with likely more to come.

I have to wonder, who the fuck decided to move from Unreal Engine to a mobile based engine? That person is responsible for this, I don't think I've seen such a baffling engine decision. Unreal Engine can't support 100 players on a large map, so they decide to instead use a mobile engine? And surprise surprise, the engine is a disaster.

6 years in development, with a very optimistic release date of 2026 for an engine which still isn't in production would have put development at 8 years at the absolute minimum, almost guaranteed to be 10+ years of development if the engine wasn't even production ready? Post-launch support using that engine would have been Destiny 1 all over again as well.

Losing all those talented employees though because someone had the bright idea to force a crappy engine on them...Sure, Unreal Engine may not have worked with the project but then that's a scoping issue? Reduce the scope of your goals, instead of 100 players, make it 50 players? I think 100 players for a survival game sounds a bit ridiculous anyway.

I wonder if they could have salvaged it on Unreal Engine though, at least give them a year or so to see how fast they can make it work, as a test, before making the decision whether or not to cancel the project, unfortunate they didn't even get that chance, I also think they could have been placed inside of other Xbox studios instead of a complete layoff...Have a few games which could use their skills.

I do wonder if Redfall played a part in their decision to cancel it...

Because visibility sells, I am pretty sure that having barely or none physical games in store make xbox unattractive for uninformed customers who wants to buy  a console for themself or as a gift.   Especially when they are trying to be informed and ask a salesperson who tries to sell those kind of customers a PS5 with disc or Switch because they possibly return and buy some physical games that stores get a cut from...