TheDorkyguy

work hard or sit Back and relax... your choice, either way, you won’t be disappointed

[TheDorkyguy @Theventureguy22]

Excuse me?! @Bungie @MrBoopCannon #PS4share

https://t.co/8uTIgFE2Sa

[Did Destiny 3 get announced today? @Destiny3please]

No d3 but more importantly @VerizonSupport fix my internet

[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

[LukeCB14 @LukeCB14]

LMFAO WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS??? 😭😭😭😭

[Santa Decides @SantaDecides]

nvm

[The Eggman @ASleepyEgg]

Official statement, please read thoroughly.

[Nathan @VidGameNerd1]

Well that was short lived hu? @PlayStation your fast to change your apps but not to respond to your horrendous decision to stop making physical discs.

[GTA 6 Updates @gtasix_]

PlayStation has removed its GTA 6 themed App icon.

Sony introduced the GTA 6-themed icon as part of its GTA 6 marketing campaign following the start of pre-orders, but it has now been removed.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

PlayStation fans are massively cancelling their PS Plus subscriptions to protest Sony’s move toward a digital-only future.

Many players are sharing screenshots of their cancelled subscriptions online, this is one of the few ways gamers can send a clear message to Sony that they want games on physical discs.

Money is the only language these companies understand.

Everyone is worried about game ownership and preserving games

Keep the backlash.

[GGaming @GGamingAR]

🚨 اشاعة

طلبت Rockstar من Sony إزالة هوية GTA VI من تطبيق PlayStation

بهدف إبعاد اللعبة عن الجدل الحالي المحيط بسوني 🤯🤯

[Did Destiny 3 get announced today? @Destiny3please]

Day 43: no Destiny 3

[Fitzy @HeyFitzy]

> boots up Destiny to play Iron Banner
> realizes Destiny, for right now, has no future
> Bow to No One plays in Orbit, and immediately starts having flashbacks to everything that happened during the Taken King Era

I'm still angry and sad man

[LUCKYY10P @LUCKYY10P]

I love that this is being covered. ❤️

[LukeCB14 @LukeCB14]

They CANNOT be closing down Destiny 2 with no clear plans for the future of the franchise & laying off almost half Bungie's staff while "wanting live-service games to define their future".

Actual joke man.

#SaveDestiny
#WeWantDestiny3

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Sony is shutting down the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita stores worldwide by July 2027

[LUCKYY10P @LUCKYY10P]

Drop a like if you'd relive just one day from the past

[IGN @IGN]

Sony has sparked a backlash for its decision to do away with video game discs, and the IGN audience's has been no exception. https://t.co/scmQihHdZB

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A Destiny 2 community manager has criticized game studio leaders for making “multiple years of poor decisions” following Bungie’s recent layoffs.

The discussion started after former Square Enix executive Jacob Navok argued that the gaming industry’s problems are mainly caused by the market.

Former Bungie vice president Mark Noseworthy shared the post, saying, “I think this is the best explanation of what has happened to the games industry over the past few years.”

Destiny 2 community manager Dylan “dmg04” Gafner disagreed, writing: “Feels somewhat disingenuous to place blame purely on the market without asking for accountability from leaders who made multiple years of poor decisions too, but nuance is hard to find on Twitter.”

After some people thought he was criticizing Noseworthy directly, Gafner clarified: “This wasn’t directed at you personally. I just don’t think we can blame everything on the market and ignore the decisions leaders made along the way.”

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

Killing discs in the middle of a storage cost crisis where you can only fit like four games on a drive to begin with is quite the move. See Xbox just cutting its 2TB model since it costs too much

[#1 Dredgen Bael Defender @destiny_thememe]

how it feels watching sony getting bullied by the entire internet after the whole destiny thing