Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers to another game studio, according to sources.
The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished.
Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed., a critical and commercial flop. In recent years, Xbox became deeply invested in Xbox Game Pass, a subscription service that offers unlimited access to hundreds of downloadable games for a monthly fee.
“In our data, Game Pass spending really had its big growth period in late 2019 through early 2021 and has since settled,” Piscatella said.
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