Leaked Microsoft memo confirms most of its original TV plans are cancelled

A leaked memo written by Microsoft's Xbox leader Phil Spencer has confirmed that the company will indeed abolish nigh of its earlier plans to fund and produce original TV shows, although some of them currently in production, such every bit the Halo live activity projects, will continue to go forward.

The memo, equally beginning posted on The Verge, has Spencer offering the specifics of their plans to slowly shut downwardly the Television set production partition, which launched in the autumn of 2022 in Santa Monica, California in 2022 and with quondam CBS network executive Nancy Tellem leading the 200 team member division:

Ane such plan is that, in the coming months, we expect to close Xbox Entertainment Studios. I would similar to accept this opportunity to recognize the accomplishments from the entire team in XES. They have congenital an impressive slate of original programming and pioneered interactive entertainment on Xbox, such as the innovative reality serial 'Every Street United' that succeeded in uniting audiences around the earth during the contempo World Loving cup. I am pleased that Nancy, Jordan and members of the XES team remain committed to new, original programming already in production like the upcoming documentary series 'Bespeak to Racket' whose first installment takes on the rising and fall of gaming icon Atari and of course, the upcoming game franchise serial 'Halo: Nightfall,' and the 'Halo' Idiot box serial which volition continue every bit planned with 343 Industries.

Spencer added that the changes will non affect the many Xbox One and Xbox 360 app partnerships the company already has with a number of entertainment content providers. Information technology seems clear that the Xbox division, under the leadership of Spencer, volition concentrate most all of its efforts on game development and publishing.

What do you recollect almost Microsoft putting near all of its Xbox plans in the "game" basket from now on?

Source: The Verge

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