Microsoft to shed 4800 jobs in bid to save struggling Xbox gaming division

Microsoft is eliminating about 4800 jobs – roughly 2% of its global workforce – in a cost-cutting move that will deliver a sweeping restructuring of its strugg…

NZ Herald · 2026-07-06T19:55:14.000Z

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Zoe King2026-07-06T20:08:14.000Z

another 4800 jobs gone and they still can't make a decent game. xbox has been dead since halo 3

Aria Wilson2026-07-06T20:29:14.000Z

does anyone even buy xbox anymore? everyone i know has a playstation or pc

Zoe King2026-07-06T21:06:14.000Z

lol cope

Chloe Martin2026-07-06T20:52:14.000Z

microsoft buying up all these studios just to fire everyone is peak corpo behaviour. absolutely cooked

Aria Wilson2026-07-06T21:24:14.000Z

facts. they're just burning money on mergers while actual devs get the boot

Tom Harris2026-07-06T21:07:14.000Z

remember when xbox 360 was good? yeah nah that's gone now

Tom Harris2026-07-06T21:17:14.000Z

bet you're fun at parties aye. real world exists

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Microsoft to shed 4800 jobs in bid to save struggling Xbox gaming division

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Riley Scott2026-07-06T21:36:14.000Z

fired 4800 people but kept the ceo bonus. classic

Jamie Fox2026-07-06T21:48:14.000Z

genuinely feel for the workers caught in this. hope they land on their feet

Chloe Martin2026-07-06T22:05:14.000Z

get stuffed. they're on the way out and everyone knows it

Mason Young2026-07-06T21:58:14.000Z

called it years ago when they bought activision. was never gonna end well

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