That post definitely is. No other company is destroying jobs/projects as much as Xbox is doing right now. While there is an industry problem, shifting the blame away from Xbox to talk about how "everyone" is doing it is not only not true but also how Spencer is getting away with it by the press

Sigh I don't say Nintendo, EA, Sony, Square or whatever is doing the same mistakes. I said the industry you know (and loved) 20 or 10 years ago is dead and gone.

Like I shit a ton on Xbox and its leadership but there is simply and industry wide problem when it comes to trends and how capital is reacting to it. Success doesn't mean it's positive. Failure doesn't mean someone is the sole reason. Change simply means stuff is different now.

again, it's deflecting to generalize the Xbox situation to the whole industry. It's shifting an individual-specific blame to a wider, more elusive and less approachable target. It's giving invidiuals an escape. You may not realize but this is what it is.

Bro, I'm not calling Phil Spencer a saint and I don't give him an exit pass The claim was the Xbox we knew is dead and I simply responded No, I wouldn't say that because the core is still the same but the industry we knew (& people still hold on) is dead I gave my fair share of critic in other post

Multiple things can be true at the same time.

How is the core "still the same" when they've laid off virtually everyone who worked at Xbox during the heydays of the 360? The article you quoted does a more thoughtful analysis. Xbox's own decisions (being a 3P pub, acquiring studios) is what led them to kill their own legacy.

Have you seen the total numbers of layoffs in the last 3 or so years? It is generalized for the most part in the US (less so in other regions due to better worker rights)

No shit, an article goes more into the topic than a one line I throw out 10 min before I went to bed. The core is the "console" and the pillar franchises and this will (probably) not change.

We are just in the same stage as the last 3 layoffs, everybody is rightfully mad and in 12 months we talk about the showcase again. Games media is a niche an normie consumer will not notice or care about the layoffs since they get their infos from youtuber or streamers.

And just wait until the next wave of layoffs on the sector hits. Ubi, EA, and Sony, next

And I take it personal if you put me into the same corner as somw fucking fanboys.

None of this changes anything to the conversation though? If we're talking about "consumers", the Xbox brand is already largely dead. Nobody is buying their consoles compared to the 360 days. I think you should read the article.

Dead and underperforming are two different pair of shoes.

Many western developers/publishers (plus Sony) are doing similar. Microsoft is just an obscenely massive company, the recent layoffs account for about 4% of the company. The number of employees even increased in 2024, despite other big layoffs happening last May.