Antonio ✨

Fan de los juegos y la tecnología.

[週刊ファミ通＠毎週木曜発売 @WeeklyFamitsu]

7/16(木)発売の週刊ファミ通(7月30日号 No.1956)は【スプラトゥーン レイダース】を特集！

メカニックとすりみ連合の描き下ろし表紙が目印🌀
先行プレイでわかったオタカラ・ハントの魅力を徹底紹介！

付録は特製イラストカードです!!

[しふぉん | Shiho Kawahara @shiifoncake]

建築好きには丸々3日あっても足りなかった、シンガポール🇸🇬

[Mario_Tierra @Tierra100able_]

No te creo tío

Hace cuatro días estaban defendiendo a Sony por matar el formato físico y ahora se indignan por el cese de un juego como servicio en móviles

La vara de medir está totalmente rota, normal que la gente vaya soltando las burradas que sueltan si la prensa es esto

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

The Apple Car wasn’t entirely a failure: It was the beginning of Apple’s AI hardware strategy and the Neural Engine. If not for the car, Apple would be even further behind in AI. So it wasn’t all for nothing.

[Orbitals @OrbitalsGame]

Orbitals is at Japan Expo Paris!!

Find us at the Nintendo stand and meet the French cast of Orbitals at our panel on Saturday 11th at 1.15pm CEST!!

More info ➡️ https://t.co/iO6xfmodln

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

BREAKING: Apple is suing OpenAI, accusing it and its hardware chief of a coordinating trade secret theft campaign to help build its upcoming suite of AI devices.

[Tony Fadell @tfadell]

Convenient, but not connected. I'm seeing more iPods, point-and-shoot cameras, flip phones, and CD players than I have in years.

This isn't nostalgia. It's a reaction to a world of endless notifications and unlimited choice.

When we built the iPod, the goal was simple: make listening to music effortless. The best technology disappears into the experience. It doesn't constantly interrupt it.

The next wave of innovation won't be about doing more. It will be about helping people focus on what matters most.

Great read from Nancy Walecki in @TheAtlantic

https://t.co/yzdWLwwzpZ

[id Software @idSoftware]

A message from id

[GamesRadar+ @GamesRadar]

Nintendo is hunting for a Switch 2 engineer who could help bring VRR to TV mode and next-gen console https://t.co/T5fnTNcDpf

[Variety @Variety]

Netflix is among the companies exploring a potential Letterboxd acquisition:

• Others reportedly looking at Letterboxd include Sony, Paramount Skydance, RedBird, TPG and Reddit co-creator Alexis Ohanian

https://t.co/OsB8yJCNzP

[Genki✨ @Genki_JPN]

Final Fantasy Resonance display in Ikebukuro! 🔥

[Tokyo Game Life @TokyoGameLife]

Big sales numbers for physical Switch games this past week according to Famitsu:

- Rhythm Heaven Groove: 393,378 (biggest opening for RH ever)
- Ganbare Goemon Daishugo: 60,428

Definitely expect Goemon to have some legs once the schedule gets a little less crowded.

[Tokyo Game Life @TokyoGameLife]

Splatoon Raiders pamphlets are now in Japanese game stores! Deep Cut is the only idol group to be featured on the cover…

[Nintendo España @NintendoES]

Hace muchas lunas, dio comienzo una aventura estelar...

Disfruta con esta secuencia animada al estilo tradicional, que marca el comienzo de #Orbitals, ¡un juego cooperativo que llegará el 3 de septiembre a #NintendoSwitch2!

[Pokémon España @Pokemon_ES_ESP]

¡Han aparecido nuevos sets LEGO® Pokémon™! 🧱 🐉 🔥

Más Pokémon emblemáticos, momentos memorables de Entrenadores y minifiguras LEGO Pokémon están disponibles para reservar.
#LEGOPokemon

[Wallpaper* @wallpapermag]

A new speaker collection marks the furniture company’s first venture into hi-fi – rethinking the relationship between sound, furniture, and space. https://t.co/D1vEBbTtTR

[Kote @kotecinho]

Tylko Sound

[Kote @kotecinho]

IBM Research
Yorktown Heights

Dean Kaufman

[Kote @kotecinho]

CH House
Hanoi 🇻🇳

ODDO Architects

[ASHA @asha_shar]

This is an important email I sent today to all employees at XBOX:

Team,

We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I've made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale.

I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today's decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication.

Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3–10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX.

First, we will reset our content portfolio.

Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision.

Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options.

We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions.

In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX.

Second, we will reset our platform.

We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify.

We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend.

Third, we are resetting how we operate.

As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done.

For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results.

Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX's history. We wish him all the best.

These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we've seen before. This year, we'll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we'll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates.

I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027.

History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability. We will not be one of them.

Asha