Phil Spencer’s Letter About Xbox Layoffs Is Insulting

Microsoft has laid disconnected much than 9,000 employees, affecting galore subsidiaries successful the Xbox division. Nearly 4% of the multi-trillion-dollar conglomerate's workforce was cut, adjacent aft exceeding $25 cardinal successful profits past quarter. Rare's Everwild was canceled, The Initiative was shuttered alongside its Perfect Dark reboot besides being binned, and Candy Crush developer King has had its workforce slashed. According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Call of Duty developer Raven Software and Forza workplace Turn 10 were deed by the layoffs, with the second losing astir 50% of its staff. Zenimax Online Studios had its upcoming MMO, code-named Blackbird, canceled, with the squad expecting layoffs shortly. More are expected successful the coming days from aggregate studios.