{"id":2378,"date":"2026-02-21T00:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/microsoft-says-todays-xbox-shake-up-doesnt-mean-game-studio-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:58:27","slug":"microsoft-says-todays-xbox-shake-up-doesnt-mean-game-studio-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/microsoft-says-todays-xbox-shake-up-doesnt-mean-game-studio-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says today\u2019s Xbox shake-up doesn\u2019t mean game studio layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two wooden hands holding a pair of Xbox Wireless Controllers\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Xbox-Wireless-Controller.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Xbox has new leaders today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/882363\/xbox-microsoft-phil-spencer-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are out<\/a> &#8211; and you&rsquo;d be forgiven for assuming that means yet another round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/697125\/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">layoffs and shuttered studios<\/a>, especially one day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/881578\/sony-close-bluepoint-games-studio-remaster-remake-demons-souls-shadow-colossus-god-of-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after Sony jettisoned a beloved developer<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Not yet, it seems. \u00ab\u00a0To be clear, there are no organizational changes underway for our studios,\u00a0\u00bb Microsoft Gaming EVP Matt Booty wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/882326\/read-microsoft-gaming-ceo-asha-sharma-first-memo#:~:text=full%20memo%20from%20Matt%20Booty%2C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in his memo today<\/a>. It&rsquo;s a little buried under everything else Microsoft&rsquo;s outgoing and incoming gaming CEOs are saying, so figure it&rsquo;s worth dragging to the surface!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\n<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/882377\/microsoft-says-todays-xbox-shakeup-doesnt-mean-game-studio-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox has new leaders today, now that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are out &#8211; and you&rsquo;d be forgiven for [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}