Pipe 3CY MicroSoft shutters year old Xbox Entertainment Studios

MicroSoft shutters year old Xbox Entertainment Studios

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Microsoft has announced:
Among the casualties of today's big Microsoft layoffs will be original content planned for the Xbox.
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Xbox Entertainment Studios

As part of the massive Microsoft layoffs announced today, Redmond will also shutter Xbox Entertainment Studios.

As first reported by Re/Code, the shutdown will occur in the next few months, Xbox chief Phil Spencer wrote in a memo to staff.

Xbox Entertainment Studios was founded last year in order to produce original content for the Xbox platform. The L.A.-based, 125-person studio was led by former CBS television president Nancy Tellem, who remains "committed to new, original programming already in production," Spencer said today.
This seems like a major cut to support for a system on the market for such a short period of time and opening to such poor reviews.
I don't see this as good news to the people who did put their faith in this product.
Maybe they shouldn't of bloated it and hobbled it with DDR3 memory and needlessly restricting the games to utilize only 6 of the 8 cores.

I have an AMD 8320 and Win8.1, it utilizes only 2% of the processor at idle. And the Xbox doesn't have full on Win8, but a stripped down, SLOWER, version running on two full cores. Win8.1, for all it's bad press, is very fast and works great for a gaming rig simply because it does have a smaller footprint and uses much less of the processor. Most of the biggest complaints have been corrected and there's always classic shell.
So there is no reason a stripped down Win8 needs 2 full cores.

Next Gen just isn't going to live up to it's promise. At least not on the Xbox One.

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2014-07-21 11:11
Xbox Entertainment Studios cut in Nadella's Re-org
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The victims and beneficiaries of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's reorgnanization are now known, and Microsoft has announced:
Among the casualties of today's big Microsoft layoffs will be original content planned for the Xbox.
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lockquote>Xbox Entertainment Studios was founded last year in order to produce original content for the Xbox platform. The L.A.-based, 125-person studio was led by former CBS television president Nancy Tellem, who remains "committed to new, original programming already in production," Spencer said today.
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[Author note: I have an AMD 8320 and Win8.1, it utilizes only 2% of the processor at idle. And the Xbox doesn't have full on Win8, but a stripped down, SLOWER,slower version running on two full cores. Win8.1, for all it's bad press, is very fast and works great for a gaming rig simply because it does have a smaller footprint and uses much less of the processor. Most of the biggest complaints have been corrected and there's always classic shell.
So there is no reason a stripped down Win8 needs 2 full cores.

Next Gen just isn't going to live up to it's promise. At least not on the Xbox One.
]

[2014-07-21 11:10 Ed. note: corrected misspelled CEO's name.]
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