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Microsoft spent $69 billion on gaming. Why is Xbox cutting jobs now?

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 27 October 2026, 14:52 UTC ·10 sec listen

Microsoft's roughly sixty-nine-billion-dollar purchase of Activision Blizzard made gaming a major bet. Yet Xbox is cutting jobs, raising questions about costs, growth and how the company plans to turn its expanded gaming business into lasting returns.

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