The actions of Microsoft They are in the clouds for AI, the Xbox division «has more players, more games, and more hours played than ever,» according to themselves, but About 9,100 employees go to unemployment, most of the video game division.
Only two months ago the company of Satya Nadella already fired another 6,000 employees, and 305 more in June. In the last year and a half, He has put about 20,000 leg workers in the street.
And in one way or another, either by reorganization or because Ia does its job, many of these dismissals are motivated by artificial intelligence, although Microsoft does not say it.
Canceled Games and Closed Studies in Xbox
According to account Bloomberg and the local medium Seatle Timesthe King study, authors of Candy Crushhas fired 10% of its workforce, about 200 workers. Another mythical study, Rare, has canceled your game Everwildafter years of development.
Microsoft closes the initiative studio, and cancels its expected game Perfect Dark. Zenimax European teams have also been affected, canceling the multiplayer game Blackbird.
Another of the most impacted teams is 10 Studios, authors of the popular Sagas Forza Motorsports y Come on Horizon. Raven Software, who works in the saga Call of Dutyhe has also suffered dismissals.
Phil Spencerthe head of Xbox, who has said that he will not resign, has sent a memorandum to his employees where he says:
«To position (the section of) Gaming towards a lasting success and allow ourselves to focus on strategic growth areas, we will end or reduce the work in certain areas of the business and we will follow the example of Microsoft in the elimination of management layers to increase agility and effectiveness.»
Although Microsoft has disguised it as evolution, the reality is that The Xbox division has completely faileddisappearing from the console hardware business. Precisely these days the specialized media collect the complaints of former Xbox Top executives, who complain that «Xbox console hardware is dead.»
Microsoft, with Phil Spencer at the head, He has failed to compete with Sony and Nintendo despite investing more infinitely, and now The Xbox division has become a software company third-party which publishes in all types of devices, including PlayStation 5 and Switch 2.
Precisely because now Xbox focuses on the software, they surprise so many dismissals in this area. But Satya Nadella has bought so many dozen of video game studies in recent years, which surely has redundant positions and equipment.
The AI advances, and employment in Microsoft goes back. Today has fired 9,100 workersand there are a case of 20,000 employees to the street in a year and a half.
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