Xbox claim they're "not reducing [their] investment in games" despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft's total workforce are in the firing line

Chatter astir wherever the axe whitethorn autumn continues to leak out

Despite yesterday bringing much quality of Xbox backing retired of backing deals and considering putting studios connected the chopping block, the institution importune specified moves aren't a motion that the wide cuts they've reportedly got successful the works are a motion of them scaling backmost however overmuch currency they're pumping into making games. At the aforesaid time, a caller study claims that the layoffs wider Microsoft person planned are projected to impact little than 2.5% of the corp's wide workforce, not that that'll soften the stroke by immoderate agelong of the imagination.

First off, the reported standard of the planned cuts. According to Business Insider, this circular of Microsoft layoffs are expected to beryllium be smaller successful standard than the cuts the institution made past year. The layoffs are reportedly projected to impact nether 2.5% of Microsoft's full workforce, which consists of astir 220,000 people.

For context, 2.5% of 220,000 is 5,500, truthful adjacent if the number's little than that, it's inactive a disturbingly ample fig of radical having their lives upended, particularly fixed the frequence with which Microsoft proceed to shovel specified numbers of devs into the layoff furnace twelvemonth aft year.

Despite each of the games and studios Xbox brass are reported to beryllium seeking to ditch successful immoderate manner precise soon, successful a effect to them pulling backing from 007 First Light devs IO Interactive's Project Fantasy, Xbox person claimed that they're inactive acceptable to determination conscionable arsenic overmuch currency into games. "We're not reducing our wide concern successful games," an Xbox spokesperson told Bloomberg. "We expect to put astir the aforesaid successful contented arsenic we did past year. What's changing is wherever we're investing and the kinds of projects we're backing."

Both that connection and the effort to framework the impending layoffs successful comparatively tiny percent presumption smack to maine of a institution heavy successful 'It's conscionable a small airborne. It's inactive good. It's inactive good.' PR harm regulation mode.

While today's the time the calendar flips implicit to July, the layoffs and cuts volition reportedly beryllium acceptable successful chromatic and enacted aboriginal adjacent week. So, that'll apt beryllium the constituent a confirmed representation of who and what astatine Xbox has been affected and successful what signifier volition emerge.