XBox Layoffs Imminent, More Appalling Sales Figures Published
In recent hours: Xbox suffers "worst year on record" for console sales in the UK | Xbox Console Sales Plunge 39 Percent in the UK During 2025
"Microsoft's gaming division faces multiple challenges simultaneously. Consumer confidence in the Xbox brand sits at an all-time low according to IGN analysis, compounded by thousands of layoffs, studio closures, and high-profile game cancellations. The Initiative's Perfect Dark, Rare's Everwild, and an unannounced ZeniMax MMO were among projects reportedly scrapped."
If the claim we saw is true, Microsoft layoffs will start in 2-3 weeks from now. Many people anticipate this, as Microsoft batched together lists of people to get rid of for months already (to avoid firing people just before Christmas).
Expect many layoffs in the gaming division.
In the past 24 hours or so we also saw around half a dozen reports about a chief in gaming going public after he had quit, blaming squarely this decision on Microsoft's cuts. █
