Only Days After Mass Layoffs in Microsoft's Azure There Are Headlines About Much-Expected XBox Layoffs
Days ago: Microsoft Azure Shrinking With More Mass Layoffs (if this was for political reasons, everyone would be impacted, not half)
Recent hours: Xbox is planning major layoffs and hinting at "radically different" console business model | Xbox Plans Layoffs As Microsoft Rethinks Its Gaming Bet | Xbox preparing for mass layoffs as Project Helix implied for Christmas 2027 | Microsoft's Xbox Could Be Set to Undergo 'Major' Layoffs Next Month | Report: Xbox plans major layoffs as new CEO pushes restructuring effort
Euphemised as "reset" in shallow publishers:
Nobody should be surprised by the news above and the noteworthy thing is the timing: July.
This serves to affirm what we wrote before regarding the timing of the layoffs, e.g.:
- Microsoft Has Spent Months Preparing Lists of People to Cull in Massive Wave of Layoffs (Allegedly Start of July)
- Rumour That Layoffs at Microsoft Will Kick Off on July 1st, 2026 (Impacting 10,000 or More Workers)
- Mass Layoffs Expected at Microsoft in July 2026
XBox as a console is basically dead or "fast-dying". Now it is considered "OK" to say this. █