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Xbox's Franchise-First Strategy: How the Company Plans to Maximize Its Biggest IPs After Layoffs

Xbox brass wants more of its biggest franchises more often: Halo, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc. Here's how we'd go about utilizing Xbox's remaining resources to make it happen.

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Ryan McCaffrey3d ago10 min readenOpinion

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