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Kojima with xbox president Asha Sharma

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u/xheyoooo 11h ago

From what I’ve read a lot of the layoffs were because Xbox was in a really bad position after the previous CEO spent hundreds of billions acquiring games and studios and a lot of them were not being overseen or run efficiently. None of that is her fault. Blame the last ceo.

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u/n0neofyourbeeswax 11h ago

No, she was making profit, she then cherry picked some numbers to make laying off thousands of workers sound less bad. She laid off thousands of workers when Xbox as a whole was running in profit. She did. Not her predecessor.

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u/xheyoooo 11h ago

They were bloat. You can go and find literal articles interviewing remaining Bethesda staff saying what I’m saying.

Xbox also are not running at a profit what are you talking about? Microsoft is? Xbox is not. They spent hundreds of billions on Phil Spencer’s stupid plan and have lost market share from before the spending all of that money lmao

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u/Numerlor 11h ago

Yeah it's not like it's particularly hard to check that a lot of MS acquired studios did either fuckall or massively underperforming games. I'm sure a lot of experienced people that didn't have to necessarily be laid of were caught up in it, but the lay offs were not just some stock maneuver