Kai

30 | Data Engineer/LLMs | Enjoyer of Video games (RPGs and gachas), anime, classical music

[Kaito @iKaito_1]

Wuthering Waves' game size has officially been reduced from 135 GB to 78 GB !

#WutheringWaves #Gacha

[Kai @kaishen47]

Me returning to Granblue Fantasy Relink after 2 years

[Kai @kaishen47]

Hatsune miku viking anime would be sick

[Gacha Zone @Gacha_Zone]

Hatsune Miku is Officially Norwegian

[Kai @kaishen47]

You should not have 14 levels of management to decide on things that’s when you know corpa and hr really took over.

[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

[Kai @kaishen47]

We not drawing the line at vending machines, or deer school girls, but at cat girls who smoke and live in a dump. I mean being disgusted by the living in a dump part makes sense.

[Anime Tokki @AnimeTokki]

'Chainsmoker Cat' is reportedly being DROPPED by the Japanese Audience for being 'too disgusting'

[Kai @kaishen47]

Bro is this just crazy. I dont know if I'll survive watching this.

[AnimeTrends @animetrends]

EL ANIME QUE DA ASCO VERLO

La adaptación al anime de Chainsmoker Cat (Yani Neko) dividió por completo a los espectadores tras la emisión de su primer episodio.

Muchos usuarios abandonaron la serie a los pocos minutos, asegurando que la extrema suciedad de los personajes y su entorno les provocó un profundo asco.

Aunque elogiaron la innegable calidad de animación, el enfermizo nivel de detalle para ilustrar la mugre hizo que la repulsión superara cualquier disfrute narrativo.

Del otro lado, los fans defienden la obra argumentando que capta a la perfección la esencia absurda y cruda del manga original.

Está tan bien animada que da asco. Literalmente.

[フロリダちゃん @ryuseihashida]

HAPPY 250 AMERICA!!!!🇺🇸

[Kai @kaishen47]

They better have good rewards.

[Gacha Zone @Gacha_Zone]

Silver Palace Gacha System:

Limited Character guaranteed at 120 pulls (there is no guarantee after you lose 50/50)

Limited Motive is guaranteed at 80 pulls (no 50/50)

1 Pull cost 360 gems

#SilverPalace

[Kai @kaishen47]

This shows gonna be such a meme.

[ивус @ogivus]

Опенинг «Табакошки» практически полностью состоит из отсылок на классическое и современное кино — собрал самые яркие и узнаваемые

А ещё в интро постоянно мелькают числа 3301 и 3401 — скорее всего, это отсылка на дешёвую сеть японо-итальянской кухни Saizeriya. Под этими номерами там подают пиво и вино

[アメリカ大使館 @usembassytokyo]

In Tokyo tomorrow? Celebrate America’s 250th birthday by watching the Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge, and Tokyo Aqua Symphony illuminated! Snap a photo or video of Red, White, and Blue lighting up the night sky. We’d love to share your photos!
Simply use #A250inJapan

Light-up Times:
🇺🇸🇯🇵Tokyo Tower: Friday, July 3, 2026 7:00 PM – midnight
🇺🇸🇯🇵Rainbow Bridge: Friday, July 3, 2026 7:00 PM – midnight
🇺🇸🇯🇵Tokyo Aqua Symphony: Friday, July 3, 2026 6:30PM – 9:30 PM

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Kai @kaishen47]

lol trust me that endings not even the most worst

[⋆˚࿔ 𝑳𝒖𝒏𝒂 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ @Playing Cold Steel 2 @xmoon_flower]

THIS CLIFFHANGER IS SOMEHOW WORST THAN SKY 1ST DUDE WHAT THE FUCK

[Hobby Sakura @Hobbysakura]

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🟥#鳴潮    x Hobby Sakura🟥
不滅の太陽にして、無敵の旗。
セブン・ヒルズの総督、オーガスタが1/7スケールフィギュアになって登場！

本日7日3日(金)から予約受付スタート！

威厳たっぷりなPV動画も公開しておりますので是非ご覧ください！
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[Sai @Saikeeper14503]

As much as I'd love WuWa doing even better, can y'all just please go away until you're mature about the games you play 😭

[JVN @jvn_artwork]

Yangyang: Xuanling

#WutheringWaves #WuWaCollection #Wuwafanart #Yangyang

[Kai @kaishen47]

Best security feature they've announced in years.

[GitHub @github]

We heard you. And we agree.

In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM.

Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children.

Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real.

Order yours today.
https://t.co/z041pdMH7h

[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

Even if a game vanishes from the GOG storefront, it never leaves your library.

Exactly as digital ownership ought to be.

[Kai @kaishen47]

@XIII_Nero_IIIX Talk about entitled.

[Kai @kaishen47]

Just…why…?

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

GTA 6 fans are paying eBay scalpers over retail price for pre-orders, despite there being no shortage

Pre-orders on eBay are selling for over $130, with some standard editions selling for the same price as the Ultimate Edition