Xbox claim they’re “not reducing [their] investment in games” despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft’s total workforce are in the firing line

Despite yesterday bringing more news of Xbox backing out of funding deals and considering putting studios on the chopping block, the company insist such moves aren’t a sign that the mass cuts they’ve reportedly got in the works are a sign of them scaling back how much cash they’re pumping into making games. At the same time, a new report claims that the layoffs wider Microsoft have planned are projected to affect less than 2.5% of the corp’s overall workforce, not that that’ll soften the blow by any stretch of the imagination.

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