Xbox's challenging year: layoffs, studio closures, price hikes
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•Xbox in 2025: a make-or-break year for Microsoft's console
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Xbox has seen some of the console's best first -party games yet this year .
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was game of the year and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
However, there have been multiple rounds of layoffs, with thousands of Xbox staff losing their jobs, several studio closures, and price rises, too.
Xbox remains firmly in second place, behind Sony 's PlayStation .
A mid-generation upgrade for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S is still on the books to release in 2025 .
We should also see the release or new announcements for The Initiative's Perfect Dark reboot, The Coalition's Gears of War : E-Day, Undead Labs' State of Decay 3 , and a whole host of other first -party games from the many studios Xbox acquired over the past decade .
We also hope to see a new generation of Xbox 's excellent Elite Series controllers.
In November , Phil Spencer confirmed that Xbox is building handheld prototypes.
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