Xbox Is Reportedly Axing Many Studios from Its Portfolio, Including Arkane Lyon, Compulsion Games, Double Fine, and Ninja Theory

[Peter_Brosdahl]

It’s a scary time to be a game studio that is a part of the Xbox Games Studio family, as layoffs loom and rumors circulate as to who is on the chopping block. It’s no secret that Xbox is facing tough decisions moving forward in a bid to survive and flourish. From a change in […]

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[Uvilla]

How is anything MS in talks about ' survival' and such. I dont get it.

 

[Marees]

How is anything MS in talks about ' survival' and such. I dont get it.

Microsoft has never seemed to understand why it was making video games. Perhaps it never will.
Games take a constant supply of human invention and creative risk and turn it into a meaningful connection with players, which then makes money. For some reason, this business model breaks Microsoft's brain, even though its rivals Sony and Nintendo have been demonstrably and quite unmysteriously successful at it for decades.

Spencer's kindness was cruel.
Asha Sharma, the new Xbox CEO is a sharp knife, as unsentimental as Spencer was indulgent, and she's been sent in to clean up his mess: a bloated, barely profitable business suffering a catastrophic loss of market share in consoles and attempting to compete with Steam on PC. (Good luck with that.) She'll take the heat for these latest cuts, but the blame for them lies with the poor decisions made by Spencer and compounded by his boss, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Only making big, safe bets isn't the answer to Xbox's woes. Sharma doesn't have a lot of options. Sure, she has to make cuts, and she needs big games. But more than that, she needs a whole new way of thinking about the game business that isn't mired in a quarter-century of wrongheaded decisions and strategic confusion.

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