Jason Schreier
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 10 Sep
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Well, so there are three console makers for people out there who don't know.
One of them is Xbox, which just had a mass layoff and is getting rid of a bunch of studios and canceling games and all that jazz.
Another one is PlayStation, which announced that they are ending the production of physical discs.
And then the third one is Nintendo, which released a game where you like jump over frogs to the beat or something like that.
We'll talk about that one a little bit later.
I think that third one is doing all right.
But we have to address the Xbox collapse and the PlayStation disc debacle, both of which have led to all sorts of ripple effects that we can get into.
Why don't we start with Xbox?
So we've been talking about this because we knew it was coming.
I'd been reporting that a lot of this stuff was coming and that it was all executed.
both literally and figuratively, last week when Xbox under new CEO Asha Sharma pushed the reset button, as she has called it, and they laid off 3,200 people.
They announced they were divesting five studios, four now and then one to come.
So the studios Compulsion Games and Double Fine are going to go independent.
They're going through...
management buyouts um the studios ninja theory and undead labs have both been sold by xbox to undisclosed buyers and the fifth studio is arcane maker of blade and dishonored which um is entering the beginnings of the process to be potentially sold or spun off or
shut down, most likely sold.
But that process is long and elaborate, thanks to French labor laws.
They have to work with the union, they have to go through all of this kind of this lengthy process, rather than just kind of saying, see you later, goodbye, we're done.
In addition, those jobs, that 3,200 I mentioned earlier, 1,600 jobs were cut last Monday when all this went down, including a ton at ZeniMax, a bunch at Obsidian, a bunch all across the org, and then a bunch within the Xbox publishing platforms division.
And then another 1600 will be laid off in the fiscal year to come.
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