Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings
www.bloomberg.com
Xbox is offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative

Others across the Xbox organization have been told that more cuts are on the way.

  • LCP@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    44·
    6 months ago

    Gift article I found online.

    The part that interests me is this:

    Jill Braff, head of ZeniMax studios, said in the town hall that she hoped the reorganization would allow the division, which also develops Fallout and Doom, to put more focus on fewer projects. “It’s hard to support nine studios all across the world with a lean central team with an ever-growing plate of things to do,”

    Why gobble up so many studios to consolidate into a gaming megacorp, then get gobbled up yourself by Microsoft? What’s the purpose of acquiring so many studios and holding onto so much IP if you can’t handle them?

    • tux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      6 months ago

      That was my take too. “We’re spread too thin”… Then why the fuck did you buy up all these companies? Sure sounds like they just gobbled up all the good IP to hoard like a dragon on its pile of gold. Or to make sure those IPs don’t make it to Sony exclusives, wish the FTC would hang them by the balls since they’ve basically done opposite of what they promised during the mergers.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        Because CEOs are fucking idiots. So many companies do this shit, it’s not just the gaming side. A company starts to grow and instead of keeping with an organic growth they buy companies over and over.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      For that sweet buyout check. Management doesn’t care about the wake of destruction they leave, they got their 30 pieces of silver

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      I suppose anyone who saw the rise of EA a decade or so back saw this coming.

      I didn’t, because, well…I think I naively expect the world of business to make sense.