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Bruh kalau takde solution baik diam je tak perlu post busuk hati macam ni. Kalau dah tak boleh relocate mereka then reeducation je boleh bantu menghalang mereka dari duk ikut sikap mak ayah mereka yang dah banyak buat kacau.

[ًِ @bckupacc99]

Identiti sendiri tak ada, semua benda nak tiru.

[|||| @idydhm]

4 1 you’re right 🤌🏻🤌🏻😭

[Eugene @eugene_ken4]

@balogun @KingJames Funny that after all the fight and corruption your leaders prioritized you guys went to play just 4 1 reason.

[Sammy @TigheSammy]

The layoffs are objectively worse than Sony killing physical media but the fact that they’re being so transparent about it has made them look SOOO much better than Sony who had to lie to justify a decision no one wants

[|||| @idydhm]

child unc is petty af

[Daily Express Malaysia @DailyExpress_MY]

A Chinese tourist approached a staff member at a restaurant in Malaysia about a “missing” China flag.

The establishment appeared to have put up World Cup-themed decorations.

Credit: StraitsTimes

[|||| @idydhm]

Yikes

[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

[|||| @idydhm]

Gaming is man’s best therapy

[ًِ @bckupacc99]

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[|||| @idydhm]

@Polygon mafia old country follows the same stupid plot made me believe some of these devs are really running out of ideas

[|||| @idydhm]

@Polygon pacing is too slow, tedious loop, stupid blind loyalty plot and terrible ending for arthur, almost no respect for player’s time and effort retrieving the best mount and upgrades for him. Oh sure i’d let the pig couple rob me so i can “transfer” my wealth to marston why not smh.

[Ultimate @loutreelectrik]

@weirded_beardo Part is this.

[|||| @idydhm]

@solitairesoc Facts

[⍑⍲☈⌾ 🍥♓ @TaroTheCerelean]

"Guys, you're missing the big picture here! NINTENDO! Right? They're gonna do it eventually too! Let's not lose focus that they're the bad guys in all this! Okay? 🥺"

[50PlusGamer @50PlusGamer1970]

I know there are some upset people regarding physical gaming finally going the way of music, streaming services, etc.

Unfortunately, too many consumers no longer care about physical but I certainly understand you.

But let me share my thoughts fully realizing I’m a Corpo CEO in a customer centric business.

I’m an older gamer, 55, and been doing so since 1976. I went all digital the day it was available 12-13 years ago and never looked back nor lost anything. I have over 500 games so I’m a big user. Digital suits my lifestyle better.

From a corpo position, if you’re running a company, and 90% of your customers purchase one way, eventually you will stop making the product for the 10%. The costs and resources are no longer justified. You try and get that 10% to convert.

But as consumers, if we now have to buy digital, then you the company, should not ever be able to take it from me once I buy it. Or if I’m truly leasing the game, it should be way cheaper. That’s where we have to exert some pressure.

Refunds have to be made easier. It can’t stay like it currently is.

PC gaming isn’t physical but the ownership is better. Consoles will have to follow suit in that regard.

I’ve seen several people saying they just took away 500 movies. Gaming is not the same as music and movies which are under completely different licensing deals and the owners control that, not the companies that show it or play it for the consumer.

So let’s box cleverly. Fighting to keep actual physical is a losing battle and a total waste of mental energy.

Let’s fight to make digital better for us as consumers since that’s the only option.

Happy Gaming

[|||| @idydhm]

@JayDubcity16 Sony hurt you so bad that you just had to include Nintendo as well huh?

[zobe70 ॐ @MonkeyKingZobe]

Why was 30 FPS unacceptable for the Nintendo Switch 1 but acceptable for GTA 6?

[Andy Lunique ➡️ Develop Brighton @InGameMenu]

This week in gaming:

Xbox:
We are laying off half of our staff and shutting down studios

PlayStation: We are ending physical media, and preparing for $1,000 consoles

Nintendo: "Hey check out Splatoon, oh and all our employees get a 10% raise"

[OJ - PlayerEssence @PlayerEssence]

Data shows Nintendo has every incentive to keep supporting physical games tho.

And if people keep buying them, they will support it. That's why I said this is fluid, we can still control this.

[Nerø 🛸 @NextGenNero]

People always making Nintendo seem like gaming villains but…

They still support physical games

They the only one out of the big 3 that charges less for their digital games

Their not closing studios and canceling games left to right

[|||| @idydhm]

“Physical” 🤣🤣🤣 damnit i can’t get enough of this L Sony

[The Elder Scrolls @ElderScrolls]

Exploring across Cyrodiil, you never know what physical treasures you might find... 🔍

[sarah @notjerk4kirk]

playstation: we’re no longer doing physical discs

xbox: we’re laying off thousands of employees next week

nintendo:

[|||| @idydhm]

@kiwitalkz Trying to shift the goalposts i see.