GamingXbox’s 100-day reset stretches on without a clear endpoint
GamesIndustry.biz argues that continuing layoffs and studio moves have outlasted the announced window without revealing a coherent post-reset strategy.
TLDR
Xbox framed the next 100 days as a business reset in June, but GamesIndustry.biz’s Rob Fahey argues that the upheaval has continued past that window. His opinion piece points to roughly 1,600 earlier job losses, another 268 cuts this week and further restructuring that moved Halo and Rare under Activision and Obsidian under Bethesda. The report says unresolved studio outcomes and Xbox’s costly new publishing commitments make the end state difficult to read. Microsoft has not publicly laid out the post-reset structure Fahey says employees and customers need.
Xbox’s 100-day reset stretches on without a clear endpoint
GamesIndustry.biz argues that continuing layoffs and studio moves have outlasted the announced window without revealing a coherent post-reset strategy.
TLDR
Xbox framed the next 100 days as a business reset in June, but GamesIndustry.biz’s Rob Fahey argues that the upheaval has continued past that window. His opinion piece points to roughly 1,600 earlier job losses, another 268 cuts this week and further restructuring that moved Halo and Rare under Activision and Obsidian under Bethesda. The report says unresolved studio outcomes and Xbox’s costly new publishing commitments make the end state difficult to read. Microsoft has not publicly laid out the post-reset structure Fahey says employees and customers need.
