No chips, no ram, no SSDs. The industry found it's foot and shot it.

This is going to be like the housing crisis but more permanent.

Microsoft should be broken up. They never should have been allowed to get so big in the first place.

The war continues. XBOX under surprise attack by their enemy Microsoft again.

They want Xbox to make a resounding comeback while also removing all of the talent from the studios. Cat's out of the bag, we already know it's not "14 layers of management" being fired, it's everyone. They aren't making the latest awesome Halo for the next Xbox, they want some sloppy sad corporate approved vibe coded cheap thing that they can ship with the limited number of new consoles.

and people will still go buy it in droves.

While I'm glad that Hideo Kojima's projects were picked up by Microsoft, and therefore the people at his studio will have paychecks because of that, it has to make these layoffs so much harder to take. MS just willingly picked up two projects from a guy who is chronically over budget, but they're still doing layoffs for their existing employees.

Yet somehow wow has retail, classic, progressive classic and now forever. Who the hell is still playing that game?

I wonder if the timing is affected by multiple Xbox studios unionizing.

Workers should just quit the AAA game industry. there's no reason to work at a big corporation in this climate.

Gotta ome up with all that money burned on the AI clusterfuk somehow… why not fire people that actually make something to keep funding investor pipe dream going for another months! 🤦‍♂️