Phil Spencer admits Xbox layoffs were "painful choices"

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has reached out to Xbox staff across the company, acknowledging that it's been "a difficult week" and that while "this week's actions were painful choices", it "set [Xbox] up for the long-term success of our products and business".

The email - which was shared by Kotaku - follows Microsoft's enormous round of 10,000 layoffs that impacted several Xbox studios, including Halo studio, 343 Industries.

"This has been a difficult week across Microsoft, and here, inside our teams. Now that many of the 1:1 and team conversations have happened, I want to take a moment to reiterate the message that you heard from your leaders," Spencer's email began.

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