More than 9,000 layoffs: it is a new bitter potion rasa for Microsoft which never ceases to degrease. If all the group’s divisions are affected, Xbox pays a heavy Price. Currently, we know that a studio will close: it is The Initiative, founded in 2018, and who worked on the remake/reboot of Perfect Dark.
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The new adventures of Joanna Dark (originally imagined by the rare studio) were canceled in the process. Microsoft had nevertheless presented a trailer last year which caused a sensation.
Let us remain precisely in Rare, who loses his project Everwildannounced in 2019 and in development for almost ten years. The studio, now known for the service game Sea of Thievesstruggled to find the right track. No need to think about it now …
Zenimax Online, the studio behind The Elder Scrolls Onlinedeveloped an MMORPG (code name “Blackbird”). He will be able to move on, the project is also canceled after a chaotic development started in 2018.
Turn 10, the last fact of arms is Forza Motorsportdoes not close … but it would be amputated by half of its workforce, according to the rumor. The simulation of races did not experience the expected success.
It’s not just the Xbox studios that lose feathers. This is also the case at Activision: Raven Software, High Moon Studios and Sledgehammer Games, who develop games Call of Dutyalso undergo layoffs.
The place of the warm boss
All eyes are now on Phil Spencer. The chief of Microsoft Gaming, who had been able to reassure the Xbox community thanks to his passive as an inveterate player, has become over time the executioner of the division. He has always assumed the thousands of positions deleted in recent years with a frankness as disarming as brutal, and the last cart is not different.
He thus recognizes that the ” changes “Announced yesterday arrive at a time when the Xbox platform has never counted so many players, games and playing time. The future promises to be brilliant (for games labeled Xbox, for Xbox consoles is another story), but here it is:” We must make choices now to ensure our success in the years to come, and one of the key elements of this strategy is to have the discipline of giving priority to the most promising opportunities“, He writes in memo.
In other words: that Xbox succeeds or fails, the only certainty for employees finally is the dismissal. This is what pushes some to claim the departure of Phil Spencer, at the head of the division since 2014. There is however no question that he retired, confirmed a spokesperson for The Verge. It would indeed be a shame to deprive yourself of a good little soldier so effective to cut in the workforce.
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