Jason Schreier

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8,218 appearances 29 recordings 6 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 6d ago

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Triple Click · Xbox Layoffs and the PlayStation Disc Disaster · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

But then there's another number, which is that this kind of has gone unnoticed.

So I will highlight it.

I've mentioned it a couple of times in my reporting, but I'll highlight it again, which is that.

Xbox also announced that they're cutting 50 percent of their vendor spend of the amount of money they spend on vendors, which I think some I think people if you hear like vendors, you think of like, oh, does that mean like they're outsourcing partners or like their cafeteria staff or like other vendors are bringing in, which I think it includes that.

But at Microsoft, it also includes a lot of people who are like, quote unquote, full time staff at Xbox or at Microsoft.

But they technically work for agencies that just kind of have them work there.

So it's a lot of people who are losing their jobs on top of all those, that 3,200 number.

In addition to everything else is all these kind of vendor jobs being lost.

There was one last year.

I believe this is the fifth in the last three years, the fifth mass layoff.

What do you guys make of this and what do you think happens next to Xbox at this point?

I find it difficult to imagine that a lot of people are going to be doing their best work for this company that has just done this and who knows what's going to happen to them next.

Maybe they'll be extra motivated now that they're fearing that another layoff could hit.

That's sarcasm.

What do you guys make of this and what do you think happens next?

Maddie, why don't you start?

I think some of it is unions.

Some of these studios are heavily unionized and have to have more conversations with Xbox.

That said, I mean, Zenimax Online Studios has a union, and they were hit pretty hard by this, so that can't be the only explanation.

Some of it might be European complications there.

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