Former Halo dev on the recent layoffs. Calls out incompetent leadership.
Yeah, it's good to see some staff giving some no-nonsense answers and insights. I can't picture layoffs from 343i being done, if MS are going to continue more layoffs going into March.
The studio won't get shut down, but I definitely can see them being shifted down to a support-only studio to provide technical assistance for other MS studios. And maybe for the next Halo (Halo Infinite is more or less finished, they're not committing 10 full years to that damn game except to keep the servers running and get Forge mode out) they have Certain Affinity take the creative lead.
It's probably for the best TBH.
Well duh. But I honestly thought they’d be much larger.
You learn something new everyday.
Some of the jobs are from their Edinburgh office apparently. I think I read somewhere that there is a $1.2 charge partially related to "changes to their hardware portfolio". Any guesses what this could mean?
This current economy sucks and I fear we will be seeing this across a lot of companies in the future. Hope those affected land on their feet.
Well what hardware does MS make? Azure server racks, Surface devices, HoloLens, Xbox.
Which one is on record as being subsidized by $100 - $200 dollars only a few months ago? Which one is part of a division that has been mentioned as never being profitable on the hardware, from court documents no less?
If I were to guess, they might actually scale back on Series S production and push more Series X units, do a soft price increase with Series X, but probably have slightly lower overall Xbox shipments because they can't make as many Xs' as they can S units.