Mass Layoffs Reportedly Hitting Xbox Believed To Include At Least One Studio
Closure
https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-layoffs-studio-closure-shutdown/
Xbox is almost certainly planning to lay off a significant number of
employees next month. Reports that cuts are coming led some to fear for their
favorite smaller Xbox-owned studios, and early follow-ups to the layoff
reports suggest Xbox users worried about those studios are right to be scared.
Xbox几乎可以肯定计划在下个月裁员。有关裁员的报导让一些玩家担心他们喜爱的Xbox旗
下小型工作室的命运,而后续报道也表明,Xbox用户对这些工作室的担忧并非空穴来风。
While Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hasn't outright confirmed that she and her team
will be putting potentially thousands of people out of work this July, she
did admit that things need to change. Bloomberg reported that widespread
layoffs are coming to Xbox, and Sharma shared a memo that was distributed
internally, seemingly in response to Bloomberg's claims.
虽然Xbox执行长阿莎夏尔马并未明确证实她和她的团队将在今年7月裁员数千人,但她确
实承认情况需要改变。彭博社报导Xbox即将进行大规模裁员,而夏尔马分享了一份内部备
忘录,似乎是为了回应彭博社的报道。
In it, Sharma admits that Xbox will end this fiscal year with just a three
percent accountability margin, and that after spending $20 billion in the
last five years, Xbox's annual revenue has dropped by $500 million. Again, no
mention of layoffs, but further reporting by The Verge claims the cuts may
involve a studio closure or changes to the Xbox studio lineup.
在声明中,夏尔马承认Xbox本财年的利润率仅3%,在过去五年投入200亿美元后,Xbox的
年收入却下降了5亿美元。声明中仍然没有提及裁员,但The Verge的进一步报导称,裁员
可能涉及关闭工作室或调整Xbox工作室阵容。