Xbox Entertainment Studios finally dissolved

Times when Microsoft invested in home entertainment as part of a revolutionary program to transform the Xbox into a "center living room," passed away with the final dissolution of the Xbox Entertainment Studios.

Nancy Talley and her right hand Jordan Levin left the Xbox Entertainment Studios - as 3,000 employees, which said goodbye to Microsoft. Reduction, according to Variety, occurred on Wednesday. Rumors about the imminent "death» Xbox Entertainment Studios hovered already long enough, but it was expected that Talley and Levin will remain at Microsoft at least until the end of the year to save current projects.

Talley joined Microsoft in 2012, and then the company is very serious about the idea of ​​the original Xbox Entertainment Studios. With the arrival of Satya Nadella instead of Steve Ballmer, however, began significant rearrangements, and one of the victims just became a division of Talley.

The result, in fact, joyless. Talley was very savvy in the gaming industry, and Microsoft is not shy to voice grandiose plans for the development of subdivisions. However, the only project that managed to please the Xbox Entertainment Studios, steel Every Street United, Miss Teen USA 2014 and Halo: Nightfall. Probably we will never see Humans, Fearless, the new stop-Motion show from Seth Green and series on Halo by Steven Spielberg.

According to Nadella, Microsoft should focus on key program PC-business - hence the reduction and closing of said units. Decision on Nadella accident: it is rumored that the main investors unhappy existence of the corporation only pozdrazdeleniya Xbox, which does not bring that fantastic amount of income that the corporation earns through Windows.