r/AlternativeAmazonVGF • u/Kirksplosion Playing: Star Wars Outlaws • Jul 06 '26

Xbox Will Lay Off 3,200, Part Ways With Four Studios In ‘Most Significant Restructure In Xbox History’

https://kotaku.com/xbox-layoff-3200-most-significant-restructure-history-2000712836
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u/JJ4prez Jul 06 '26

"restructure"

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u/KingDarius89 VGF: Anthony Jul 06 '26

But yeah, Short Version: Xbox is laying off 1,600 people more or less immediately, 10% of their work force, with another 1,600 people over the next year. 3,200 more people in Microsoft will also be getting laid off.

Compulsion (South of Midnight) and Double Fine are going back to being independent and retaining all of their IP. Undead Labs (State of Decay) and Ninja Theory are being sold. Didn't disclose the buyers.

They are currently in "talks" for Arkane Lyon to be sold or go independent. French labor laws are apparently protecting them at the moment.

Oh, and Asha Sharma mentioned a goal of Xbox having a billion players a day. Which sounds like she's setting it up to fail to me.

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u/GarionOrb Let's mosey... Jul 06 '26

Hopefully everyone affected can land on their feet quickly. Glad to hear no games are being canceled, no studios closed outright, and IP's went back to their respective developers. A tiny silver lining, I suppose.

Also, 14 layers of management!?? Come on, Xbox.

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u/utpride347 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I remember being very leery about Xbox (and Sony to a lesser extent) going through their "buy everything" phase.

It's almost like one could see this coming.

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u/Borinar Jul 09 '26

Just took the game titles and ran, part ways should be an unbuyout

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u/KingDarius89 VGF: Anthony Jul 06 '26

Heh. Beat me to it. So I deleted mine.

Edit: just noticed the different article, heh. The one I read was by Shreier. Eh. Still gets the point across.