Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs

StraightEdge, Twitch Affiliate, YouTuber, Wrestling Podcaster, Bulldog 💙, Writer, Retail Robot, Horror Junkie.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

When you get fired no matter how good you are at your job, that’s when you know the industry is in the complete shitter.

Doesn’t matter. Bad game? Low numbers? Fired!

Great game? High numbers? Fired!

[Manel Cota @MaNeo_O]

Thanks! Ubisoft Barcelona did all the underwater levels. And that same team is being fired right now because Ubisoft thinks thats what we deserve :)

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

If you watch the OG Roseanne show, it’s actually kind of crazy how she (and her character) turns into a total dumbass who goes against everything she herself believed in from the start.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

@Gamers_JoyRide @IGN Look everyone! Someone else who doesn’t know what “woke” even means. Fucking loser.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

Sony and Xbox keep one upping each other on being the worst platform for consoles.

Gonna need a millionaire to go ahead and create a new console with cartridge games again. This shit is getting out of hand.

[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

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

Being the first to win championships with 4 different franchises has to be enticing. So I’d like to see LeBron go to GSW or the 76ers just to take a crack at it. But I’m with everyone else, his best odds to win a title is probably Cleveland or Miami.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

@proV1rotate @thevoiceofevan Florida missed the playoffs last year too and they’re listed as cup favorites. So your argument makes no sense. Also, you didn’t answer the mans question. Per usual from a troll who doesn’t know puck. WHAT DO THEY NEED MORE OF? Moron.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

@thevoiceofevan Nothing. If they could make it happen maybe a defensive player upgrade but they can def win the cup with their current roster. Carolina just won with no superstars. This team is going to beat down teams all year with hits. It’s going to be fun as hell to watch.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

@bisexuals4geno 💯! Because people live on social media which isn’t real life. No experience in watching or listening to people. These people are fooled by AI all the time. There was never a doubt he was coming back. Everything he did or the way he said things screamed he wasn’t done.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

@JohnnyBoysGame @Hexakin @IGN Literally saying you don’t understand why people are mad and then immediately sending out another tweet describing exactly why people are mad is why you’re a fucking idiot.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

@KaseyHelton05 If Tone Deaf was a person.

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@IGN No shit lol

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@IndependnTexan @gamestop They got their money already. What are you even on about? Sybau.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

Who gonna tell him?

[GameStop @gamestop]

A GameStop Customer in Columbus, Ohio traded his old Xbox 360 collection for over $1,000 in store credit. Left with new PS5 games and very happy!

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

Lakers got told by LeBron to move forward without him and they said “Bet.”

Holy hell.

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@PlayStation I can’t imagine you thought this was actually going to go well and yet you did it anyway… lol. Yikes.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

@ChelseaBytes Not slowly. This is the final nail. They just took it away.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

As a console streamer on Twitch I tend to agree. I need to find a way to get steam onto something else because cpus give me too many issues. Steam Machine/Steam Deck or something lol.

[Shirrako @ShirrakoGaming]

Consoles have no reason to exist without physical games.

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

Yikes 😬

Just go to cartridges at this point. This is not going to end well for gamers, or Sony.

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Important updates:

News on physical discs for new games - https://t.co/BzZODXdWGY

News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - https://t.co/ev3mN6wj14

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

@cherdelaware They’ve been out of Walmart for about a year now unfortunately. You can still find some at Target but I think they’re going to change companies soon or something which sucks because I really like the job Jaz has done with the IP. It’s basically ringsidecollectibles or nothing atm

[Straightedge Monster I RAZE | Sleefs @sXeMonsterTTV]

Crazy but can’t say I’m surprised. AI is ruining a lot of shit. I bet a real person didn’t even review this.

[MadameDiablo @DiabloMadame]

TWITCH, DO BETTER 😭

I reported this account for impersonation and Twitch did nothing about it.

Seriously?! This account is even trying to scam people while pretending to be me..... @TwitchSupport you gotta do better.