~1,900 jobs today, even. :/
gotta make sure phil spencer gets his bonus.
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Apparently Microsoft views success as Quarterly Profits, and long term planning for the future has taken a backseat.
They’ve been floundering for a while. Eliminating 9,000 jobs only guarantees they’ll flounder even longer.
AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Day’s not over…
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
[deleted]alaphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, it isn’t like he hasn’t earned it at this point… How the fuck are you gonna spend the better part of a decade buying up a shit ton of studios - ostensibly to make you a competitive stable of console moving exclusives - to have almost all of them release what are arguably their worst games time and time again… So to compensate, they shutter studios who’ve just produced games almost universally lauded by critics and crowd alike, and then just say fuck it, we never even believed in exclusives to begin with, yet decided not to take a stand on it until… now for… reasons…? 🤦♂️🤷♂️
Stamau123@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
At this point i’d take an AI CEO, at least the fuck ups will be impossible instead of impossibly stupid
afaix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even when people were saying that MS turned a new leaf and that they are better at managing all the studios that they buy, and that they’ll make more better games for Game Pass to be a success, I knew that this was coming. Microsoft has been nothing but consistent in this one thing: it’ll pivot hard in one direction, pour tons of green into it, hire the best people, and then fire everyone and abandon the idea forever.
Zune, Windows Phones, Kinect, and now I guess XBOX. Well, looks like it lived long enough.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Eliminating 9,000 jobs only guarantees they’ll flounder even longer.
Maybe. Microsoft’s biggest revenue stream has historically been government contracts. I don’t see that failing them anytime in the next decade.
But retail consumer spending? That’s something that could seriously take a few hits in the next big downturn. I can see a company putting its finger to the wind and betting a '08 style recession will kill the market for console gaming in another two or three years.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the likely scenario. They are predicting an incredibly unpredictable consumer market in the next 4-8 years but a very predictable defense industry market in that time.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe the game just sucks?
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Long term planning in general has been on a steep decline for a long time now.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They know they’ve destroyed the planet, so why bother planning for a future they’ve already prevented.