Microsoft is raising XBox prices (up to $80-100), and games prices will follow soon (they will cost $80 instead of $70).

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Skype is officially dead

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Microsoft is raising prices, but in a tricky way...

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New prices are kinda bad...

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Sad shit: Microsoft is doing its FOURTH major series of layoffs during the last 18 months...

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As it was previously told, Microsoft has begun firing people (again). It has about 20 000 people in gaming divisions and want to cut this workforce by thousands.

King, Bethesda, and many other companies are among these cuts. It's the fourth big wave of layoffs in the last 18 months.

The total cut among Microsoft's teams (beyond gaming) is expected to be around 9100 employees out of 228 000. They were already planning to cut 7000 people in May (and it's unclear if these are two cuts or an extension).

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Apparently, Bethesda was working on the online game that was supposed to utilize the new engine they have created. But it all got cancelled today.

They also shut down the team behind Forza Motorsport and some other projects. I see dozens and dozens of posts like this on LinkedIn.

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And here's the email from Phil Spencer: yeah, we make more money than ever, but it's all possible thanks to firing people who previously did a great job and helped us to establish this foothold in the industry. Very ugly phrasing, IMO.

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Have you thought, that Microsoft is leaving Windows 10 to die, forcing cloud services, giving up on gaming, and so on.

With the current approach it will turn into a cloud company and completely refocus to B2B.

Steam Deck outsells XBox in several regions now 😐

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