Microsoft Bloodbath

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of Microsoft's layoffs on the video game industry and explores the implications of digital game ownership.

Microsoft employees have a really bad day. Are digital games a good thing? We look at what some users are saying about the Nintendo Store and some more news about Microsoft and their desire to take over the world.http://www.joystickandmouse.comhttp://shop.joystickandmouse.com Show Notes: Microsoft laid off more than 9000 employees this past week. Along with the devastating effect on the lives of those people the ripple effect across the tech landscape did not miss the video game world. So let's take a look at what was impacted by this latest labor cut and what the industry thought of it.https://www.trueachievements.com/news/xbox-canceled-games-and-studios-layoffs-2025https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/07/its-heartbreaking-the-pokemon-company-tech-vp-joins-industry-in-criticising-microsoft-layoffs You buy a game on steam and it goes ito your library. You own that game, right? Well it doesn't seem possible but what if Steam went out of business? Can't happen, think Google Stadia. You would loose access to those games that you paid money for. Well a new online initiative called stop killing games aims to close that…

Topics covered

• Microsoft layoffs
• digital games
• Nintendo Store
• video game industry

Keywords

• Microsoft
• Nintendo
• Steam
• video games
• Switch 2

Mentioned in this episode

Products: steam, the Switch 2, Nintendo Online

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