{"id":246078,"date":"2025-10-23T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246078\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:46:08","slug":"microsoft-pushes-xbox-studios-to-hit-higher-profit-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246078\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Pushes Xbox Studios to Hit Higher Profit Margins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Microsoft Corp. is asking its Xbox gaming division to produce profit margins that are well above the industry average, ratcheting up pressure on its video-game makers during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-02-16\/behind-the-video-game-layoffs-players-love-of-old-favorites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">a difficult time<\/a> for the field at large. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Over the past two years, executives at the Seattle-based software giant have set an across-the-board goal of 30% \u201caccountability margins,\u201d a term Microsoft uses in lieu of profit margins, according to people familiar with the business. The gaming division, which includes dozens of studios, has responded by canceling products, raising prices and slashing thousands of jobs, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing nonpublic information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft Corp. is asking its Xbox gaming division to produce profit margins that are well above the industry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[134654,181,4589,9135,2075,134,1536,134653,7271,5885,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-246078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-amy-e-hood","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-chief-financial-officer","11":"tag-executives","12":"tag-hardware","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-microsoft-corp","15":"tag-nintendo-co-ltd","16":"tag-software","17":"tag-sony-group-corp","18":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}