Studies emerged this week suggesting that the corporate is now contemplating launching a few of its first-party video games on competing platforms. There was already hypothesis round Xbox’s Hello-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves launching on different platforms, however early this week the web broke down after recent reviews advised that Starfield and Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle could possibly be heading to PS5 — though YouTuber Nate the Hate, who corroborated an unique report now believes Starfield shouldn’t be destined for different platforms.
Not long after those rumors had done the rounds, yet another report surfaced suggesting that Gears of War was also being considered for a PlayStation launch.
We have additionally seen mass layoffs at Microsoft, who has minimize round 1,900 jobs throughout Xbox Recreation Studios, Activision Blizzard, and ZeniMax. As a part of these layoffs, it was reported that Xbox had shut down departments devoted to bringing bodily Xbox video games to retail. We have additionally seen these layoffs hit Crash Bandicoot and Spyro developer Toys for Bob fairly exhausting, with a reported 86 workers being let go. The mass layoffs additionally caught the attention of the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC), which filed a criticism in regards to the job cuts, saying they contradicted statements Microsoft made in courtroom about how Activision Blizzard and Xbox can be run after the acquisition. Microsoft argues the layoffs had been already deliberate at Activision Blizzard earlier than the takeover.
With so many rumors and a lot hypothesis doing the rounds on the web — a whole lot of which is probably going false — gamers are left questioning what’s in retailer for Xbox within the coming years. Up to now, the one factor we have heard from Staff Xbox has come from Phil Spencer, who stated Microsoft will share its “imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Xbox” subsequent week.
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