Microsoft has announced job cuts at Xbox Division

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nial said:
That was the excuse last time around, isn't hardware an afterthought for MS Gaming now that their focus is on third-party publishing? Why would it dictate these baffling moves that will directly impact on their third-party pipeline? Why were we even told that they've been at their most successful time ever for publishing high-performing tentpole releases (Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered and Forza Horizon 5) on PS5?
The transition already happened 1.5 years ago, and MS has been, since then, benefitting from the success of the likes of ABK's Candy Crush and BLOPS4. The Xbox Series utterly collapsing on its market has definitely nothing to do with King being targeted for layoffs here.
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They have to be a bit stricter, even as a 3rd party. Sega did the same thing. It's pretty much common sense. A 1st party platform with 30% passive income on everything and a system to sell can take more risks on niche products. This is what I always criticized Sony for not doing. You can do more of the new IPs and more commercially experimental stuff. Now they have less room for that. It's a sad reality. Hopefully they preserve as much as they can. Call of Duty revenue is absolutely helping them preserve some of it, instead of all of that money just going back to the Activision black hole.
 
Dr. Samuel Hayden said:
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Doesn't surprise me about Turn 10. The last few mainline Forza Motorsport games weren't well received by players and in a multiplatform future Forza Motorsport has no place. They'll never dethrone Gran Turismo on PlayStation and PC has a ridiculous amount of racing sims.

Might as well roll the rest of the studio into Playground Games so Forza Horizon can continue to be the marquee arcade racing game.
 
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The Forza IP, far too over reliance on it. If they wanted a racing game every three years or so why not try something else like a revamped PGR or a spiritual successor to something like Blur , non open world arcade kind of stuff. It becomes too predictable. I got bored with Horizon 5 after a few hours, more of the same with 6 in a different country.
 
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Nydius said:
Doesn't surprise me about Turn 10. The last few mainline Forza Motorsport games weren't well received by players and in a multiplatform future Forza Motorsport has no future. They'll never dethrone Gran Turismo on PlayStation and PC has a ridiculous amount of racing sims.

Might as well roll the rest of the studio into Playground Games so Forza Horizon can continue to be the marquee arcade racing game.
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I think the last one I played was 6? Was that the one before the latest one or was there another one after?
 
FM bombed really badly so not a huge surprise but for the studio behind a major Xbox IP with 20 years of history them getting completely gutted is sad to see.
 
thicc_girls_are_teh_best said:
Let's....let's not do this?



Compared to MS, SEGA's transition felt rather orderly and matter-of-fact. Nothing drawn out, everything upfront. I think they deserve a lot of credit for making the transition rather swift and seamless.

Also, I don't remember them closing up tons of studios. They just let go of people from the Western branches related to hardware & marketing, and maybe STI if that was even still a thing. But they kept all their dev studios and in fact they made some new ones, like Hitmaker, with members from other teams that were getting restructured.
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Because MS refuses to just bow out gracefully, trim the fat and focus purely on software. Instead, they still believe they can have a significant place in the industry as a 3rd party publisher AND as a quasi-hardware service based brand (i.e. they don't want to give up Gamepass)
 
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I think the last one I played was 6? Was that the one before the latest one or was there another one after?
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Yeah, there was 7. The one out now is technically FM8, they just dropped the number from the title as part of their quasi-reboot.
 
Gambit2483 said:
Because MS refuses to just bow out gracefully, trim the fat and focus purely on software. Instead, they still believe they can have a significant place in the industry as a 3rd party publisher AND as a quasi-hardware service based brand (i.e. they don't want to give up Gamepass)
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Can't have both and Id imagine hardware is continuing to be a struggle since they price hiked.
 
Sad, but not surprised at all.

This "gaming" decision is just them moving all their games and projects to UE5 so they can outsource the work. Xbox as a console is already dead so there will be a lot of more people just doing nothing... and thats Sarah Bond job! not theirs!
 
Not surprised about Blade. Any comic book game outside of Spiderman or the Marvel fighting game series seems like a bad bet.

I wonder how that Wolverine game is doing over at Insomniac...
 
Punished Miku said:
I prefer FM over Horizon personally. Super rough.
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After the last few FM games it's clear T10 are not the main Forza developer anymore as PG have taken FH and made it the flagship Forza. While I thought FM was a good game it's become safe and boring and it's obviously not performing anywhere near Horizon level's.

Hopefully T10 become a support studio for Playground who are going from strength to strength.
 
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