Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division

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• afansfw@lemmynsfw.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate this Microsoft cycle so much: buy gaming studios, do fuck all with them, fire all staff, close studios, rinse, repeat. So much talent and so many great IPs down the drain because MS can’t decide what the fuck are they doing

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  • KnitWit@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They know exactly what they are doing, they are reducing competition.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That narrative doesn’t make much sense. There’s far too much competition in the industry, and you’re not reducing competition by shutting down the likes of Tango Gameworks.

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    • afansfw@lemmynsfw.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe they forgot they have to compete as well then, because it doesn’t look like they know how to do that

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  • Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They had the Kinect which (ignoring all the negative press surrounding it) fucking slapped, and could easily have been integrated with a VR headset for full-body VR.

    They have Blizzard which im pretty sure means they can put WoW on xbox but don’t even seem to have started.

    They’re positioned to have the greatest console of all time and they’re just fucking around instead. It’s maddening.

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This will free up a lot of capital for c-level bonuses

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s a relief. I was starting to worry about them, with all these breakout indie game successes.

    Maybe the indie developers will start buying the AAA CEOs a coffee once in awhile.

    (This is intended as surrealist humor.)

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Microsoft is exiting the console business

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah with their “everything is an Xbox” nonsense it’s pretty clear they want to focus on the platform, marketplace where you buy games. Playing them is kind of second. I’m sure they’ll still have something, but it’s going to be more geared towards cloud streaming, pc, handhelds, and “play where you want” so they can just do the digital side. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get partners like Asus to build boxes now.

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    • nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So we’ve always have had 3 competitors. Who is going to replace them?

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• TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  XBOX can’t be buried soon enough. It’s been dead in the casket for over a decade and it’s time to start throwing dirt on it.

  I love the original and the 360. The people that had the passion and vision for what XBOX was and needed to be are long gone and this is what we’re left with. A bunch of suits making decisions who probably don’t even know how to play pong.

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  • duchess@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What exactly was the original vision?

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Everything is an Xbox” now. Even the PlayStation is living on borrowed time. The way Xbox is run right now may not be very good, but the vision for what Xbox was had to change. They were just an earlier casualty of the way things are changing than their competition.

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    • Toga65@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why? What about their strategy right now it because of the way things are changing?

      None of it is. It is because of mismanagement that happened with Don Matrick and the OG Xbox one focusing on fucking cable hookups and banning their users from borrowing physical games.

      That corporate garbage in Xbox NEVER fully disappeared and now they’re reaping what they sowed.

      Also not releasing an exclusive game worth buying since before 2014 is a wild strategy.

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    • TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t see it that way at all. Xbox took their foot off the gas when Kinect came out and has been dying from 1000 cuts. What was working for Xbox - they stopped doing. This isn’t the future, this is them throwing anything they can at the wall and see what sticks.

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• SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Makes sense after how successful the oblivion AI remaster sold.

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  • augustus672@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can you provide proof that AI was used? It’s not disclosed on the Steam page which Valve requires for all games.

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    • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah. They used UE5. Which has insane AI tools. So, you know how you can walk around and see all the detail? Well if you think bathesda hand painted in new brush and details and redid ALL the character models etc etc you’re nuts. But what’s funny is, in the character models. You can literally see the AI used because nothing is significant. The motions are all exactly the same except the main character. The mouth movements are the exact same. Everything is exactly how it was but just overcoated with a new engine. And UE5 literally advertises their AI capabilities.

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