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Microsoft says today’s Xbox shakeup doesn’t mean game studio layoffs

Xbox has new leaders today, now that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are out - and you'd be forgiven for assuming that means yet another round of layoffs and shuttered studios, especially one day after Sony jettisoned a beloved developer. Not yet, it seems. "To be clear, there are no organizational chan...

Microsoft says today’s Xbox shakeup doesn’t mean game studio layoffs
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Xbox has new leaders today, now that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are out - and you'd be forgiven for assuming that means yet another round of layoffs and shuttered studios, especially one day after Sony jettisoned a beloved developer.

Not yet, it seems. "To be clear, there are no organizational changes underway for our studios," Microsoft gaming boss Matt Booty wrote in his memo today. It's a little buried under everything else Microsoft's outgoing and incoming gaming CEOs are saying, so figure it's worth dragging to the surface!

Read the full story at The Verge.

Originally published at The Verge

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